Haunted New Jersey Happy
Hauntings!!
Acto - Burnt Mill Road - It
is said that a little boy haunts the road, The little boy lived on the road and
was playing basketball outside his house and was hit by a car that was drag
racing on the road. It is said that you see him dribbling his basketball and
looking up at the stars.
Atco - Multiplex - Strange
noise can be heard in theater 6 as if someone is moving their hands across the
wall and voice can be heard.
Allamuchy - Shades of Death - is
the actual name of a road located in, New Jersey. It is said that if you drive
down there late at night, and you enter into a patch of fog on the road, it will
follow you and you will find footprints on your car...human footprints.
Allamuchy - Ghost Lake - Ghost
Lake is located on Shades of Death Road in Allamuchy Township the local legends
vary - but the prevailing theme is that there was an Indian Graveyard there and
settlers built a man made lake over the graveyard. At night the Indians haunt
the area - even we (locals) stay away. Plus there are MANY bear families there
so be careful.
Alpine - Devil's Tower - It
is said to be, that a long time ago, during the 1900's though, a man was
building a "tower" tall enough so that his wife could see the New York
Skyline. While it was being built, the wife went up to the top floor, as she
came down, she saw her husband with another woman! She ran back up to the top,
and jumped out. There is a myth, if you circle the tower, 8 times or something,
something is supposed to happen. Nobody has been able to complete it.
Ancora - Veterans haven - Veterans
haven is right next to bayside prison ward and Ancora mental institution. It was
once a town the psychiatric hospital made for patients to all live together,
many of the patients murdered each other, and the most of them are old veterans
from the war. Eventually, so many killings took place they just shut the whole
town down. It has a lot of paranormal activity and the streetlights are still
left on through out the little deserted ghost town.
Atlantic City - Taj Mahal - it
is said that man jumped from the tenth floor of the garage and haunts that area
every night around midnight
Bay Head - The Greenville
Hotel/Restaurant - Over the years many employees have
experienced many things from ghosts physically appearing (looking very much like
a live person) and walking down the hall and disappearing, to the sounds of
children playing in the lobby late at night. One employee even reported falling
asleep on the couch in the lobby and awaking to the sounds of kids playing in
front of them. He saw glimpses of them as well. There are sounds of moving
furniture in unoccupied rooms, sounds of people walking down the hall but
"no one is there", the sense that someone is standing behind you, but
"no one is there". Guests report hearing children run down the halls
laughing in the middle of the night, but there are never any live children doing
that. In fact it is rare that children stay there.
Bayonne - Elco Naval Base - This
was a World War Two Factory active to make P.T. Boats after the war a lot of
people lost the jobs. During the war a boat fell off a conveyer belt and crushed
2 men. And now the little girl is seen some times looking for her father and her
father is still yell for her. Over and over. Never to be seen again but forever
heard!
Bayonne - Meadow St 24th &25th
St - The train tracks are on the east side and meadow
street runs off east 21st Street quite a way from 24th or 25th st about three
blocks away at 3:00.The tracks had some difficulties on meadow road(now
25-24th).A near-by train station ordered a conductor to pull a lever for the
tracks to go straight. When ordered, he had got his foot stuck in tracks and was
pulverized by the train. This gory event is said to be seen and/or heard at 3:28
in the morning between 24th and 25th streets.
Bayville - Admiral Farragoes - There
is said to be screams coming from the old building every night around 12:00 am.
Bergen County - Little Ferry - Old
Protestant Church - The ghost of a man who was shot inside the church is seen
peeking out the front doors late at night.
Bernardsville - Bernardsville Public
Library - was The Parker home and has a strange history of
sightings as well as a very mysterious historical past.
Bernardsville - Long Rd. - Devil's
Tree - Turn onto Long Rd, (wich is really short) then make
a left at the end, you will come upon a highly wooded area and then it just
opens up into a field. At the end of the field there is a huge hideous looking
tree with a branch that extends perfectly parallel to the ground. It is said
that the tree was used to hang slaves on and still has a chilling aura to it.
You can see marks on the trunk from people attempting to chop it down, they say
whoever tries, something bad happens to and sometimes a pickup truck will try to
chase you out.
Blackwood - Jefferson Hall at Camden
County College - This structure used to be a monastery
before becoming a learning institution. It is said that a residing monk hanged
himself on the third floor of this building. Security guards of the college have
reported hearing footsteps thumping down the hall of the third floor. They often
avoid interior patrol.
Boonton - Darress Theater - It
was closed for many years and was finally bought and used for children's theater
(like Snow White, etc.) and they also show movies there at night, too. The
people that are there late at night say they hear voices, footsteps and the
chair seats move. There have also been reports of singing coming from the
theater when everyone has gone home for the night.
Bordentown - Missionary - Strange
anomalies on film have been recorded.
Burlington - Burlington County
Prison - cell 5 on the 3rd floor is haunted by Joseph
Clough who spent his last days chained in this cell.
Byram Twp. - The Colby Mansion - This
is an old boarded up house on Tamarack Road in Byram. The house was built for a
wealthy railroad millionaire in the late 1800s.The man shot his wife and cut off
her head and put it on the fireplace mantle. He was then killed and both of
their bodies are buried in the estates' graveyard. Someone recently bought the
property and built a new house somewhere on the land. The old mansion is still
standing but the old guest cottage fell down many years ago. The property is
heavily patrolled by police.
Cape May - Cape May County
Historical Museum - the ghost of a man with a deep voice
haunts this place.
Cape May - Higbee's Beach - At
least 3 ghosts can be seen in the wildlife reserve and beach. Higbee appears
whenever someone approaches his grave; he can be seen chasing the ghost of a
slave down the wooded paths. A phantom sailor appears in his beige-colored
"slops" atop a dune, and then disappears.
Cape May - The Sea Holly Inn - a
young woman seems to make her presence known every so often and an elderly
gentleman who climbed in bed with a Psychic!
Cape May - The Windward House - The
ghost of a young Irish girl is occupying the 3rd floor "wicker" room.
Cape May - Washington Inn - An
elderly woman's voice is often heard here.
Cape May - Winterwood Gift Shoppe - 2
sisters haunt their former home as well as a white figure that roams the grounds
near a grave on the grounds.
Cape May - World War II Bunker - The
magazine at Cape May point once housed guns to protect the coast from Nazi subs.
A ghostly crew haunts this bunker. Soldiers have also been seen on the beach
surrounding the bunker.
Cedarville / Fairton - the old stone
church - many strange thing have been reported here such
as ghostly faces on head stones, organ music hear coming from the church late in
the morning hours with no electrical sources going to the building. by rs2
Chester - Main Street - A
farmhouse dating back to the mid-1800s, now refurbished and occupied by ClinCon
Research. Haunted by young girl in a white dress. A 19-century
farmer living in the house often saw the girl staring at him, and sometimes
crying, through a window. His dog refused to go in the room where the girl
most often appeared. Finally he locked his dog in the room, and the dog
chewed and clawed his way almost all the way through the door to get out.
The farmer once confronted the girl in a hallway, but when she turned towards
him, she had no face. Recent incidents include unexplained movement of
furniture. Many old buildings along Main St., including the Public House
Inn, are haunted.
Cinnaminson - Lakeview Memorial
Cemetery - reports of children's ghost been seen and
leaving footprints in the area that is all child graves. Ghostly anomalies have
been observed at the tower also.
Columbus - The Columbus Inn -
This is a very old restaurant in the center of a very small town. There have
been numerous sightings throughout the years. They have even had paranormal
investigators come in to investigate the series of sightings. A large piece was
done on this restaurant on TV and in the newspapers several years ago. Inside
the restaurant, one of the articles can be found behind the bar. One of the
employees there even told us that there is a legend that the famous "Jersey
Devil" was reported to have been born there.
Cranford - Gallows Hill Road - Located
at the corner of Gallows Hill Road and Brookside Place was the huge tree from
which spies were hung during the Revolution. The tree was cut down a few
years ago, but the rusty iron and concrete post which the rope was tied to still
stands. Movement around the area can be seen late at night, but only from
a distance. Personal experience was what seemed to be tall bushes swaying
in a nonexistent breeze. Closer inspection showed no bushes just a well
manicured lawn and a really creepy feeling.
Dennisville - Henry Ludlam Inn - strange
sounds and events occur here.
East Greenwich - Eglington Cemetery
- is the oldest operating burial ground in the United
States has been investigated by several paranormal groups and is reported to be
very active with ghostly globes and lights.
East Greenwich - Lenape village - was
located here with 2 signals hills and one of the largest trails going to
Tuckerton (Koh hach ing trail) runs right through the center of the township.
There is also a very active underground river and numerous spring fed ponds
which according to the Dragon Project in England act as a psychic
"battery" or "memory" for paranormal activity.
Edgewater - Old River Road - There
have been sightings of the ghost of the Leni Lenapi Indians walking on the old
river road... there is also an ancient burial ground on this road...it's a
preserved cemetery from the 1400's of the old Leni Lenapi
Edison - Old White Church on
Woodbridge Ave - It is said that the cemetery is haunted
by Mary Moore, a woman executed in the 1700's accused of witchcraft. Many people
have stolen her headstone and died shortly after. People have said they have
seen her in the cemetery.
Edison - Wardlaw-Hartridge School - In
the upper east wing of the school, students and teachers have heard constant
banging in a patch of sealed lockers, and when opened the sound would suddenly
stop only to start again when locked up again.
Elizabeth - Elizabeth General
Medical Center in Elizabeth - The Newborn Nursery is
haunted by a woman in white. A room in the Special Care Nursery is known for
suddenly becoming cold and furniture and equipment is known to move by itself. A
crying baby is sometimes heard in the third unused Nursery. A room in the
postpartum ward is known for a rocking chair that rocks by itself and a toilet
that flushes by itself. The hospital operator one night received a phone call
from a patient room the voice on the other end requested that she send
"help"---the room was in a closed down, unused ward and had no
telephone.
Flemington - Union Hotel -
Slamming doors and spinning barstools are seen and heard after closing. Strange
events occur without warning like one time, the heavy wooden front doors were
locked. Some employees were sitting around the bar when the heavy wooden doors
opened all of a sudden and a cold wind went right past them. When the employees
locked the door again, they saw a pair of leather children shoes walking up the
stairs. The restaurant is haunted by many unknown spirits.
Fort Dix - Haunted Hospital - Repeated
sightings, noises, and furniture being thrown around on the top five floors of
the hospital. It used to be a hospital for the victims of the war. In the
basement of the hospital used to be the morgue. You can see the spirits that
lives there and you can see from outside of the hospital the blinds are all up
and that there is someone watching you.
Franklin - Headquarters of the
Meadow Foundation -South Middlebush Road - The ghost of an
elderly gentleman has been reported to walk through the house and look through
the dining room windows. He is sometimes reported to have been wearing a Civil
War uniform.
Franklin Township - VanWickle home -It
is a beautiful home that sports a cemetery right on the entrance to the
driveway. It has been rumored to be haunted and many documented sightings are on
hand.
Franklineville - Iona Lake Inn - The
Inn is so large, many ghosts visit the place. The old owner who first opened
it…still runs the now empty Inn!
Glendora - Gabriel Davies Tavern -
One of New Jersey's oldest historical landmarks used to be a tavern during the
Revolutionary war. The attic was used a hospital for wounded soldiers. The
original furnishings are in the house and there is still bloodstains in the
attic. On occasion it has been recorded the sighting of people walking in the
upstairs and strangest sounds of people suffering.
Gloucester - National Park - Whital
House Battle Field - it is noted of haunting from the
revolution 1776 dead soldiers in the attic house was used as a hospital
check it out.
Hoboken - "The Brass Rail
Restaurant."- The restaurant is over 100 years old.
Waiters and waitresses have seen the ghosts of a bride, groom and wedding
parties walking down the spiral staircase of the two-story restaurant, late at
night, when they're cleaning up.
Hamilton - McCorristin Catholic High
School - Lockers that have been locked are found open, the
scorer's buzzer in the gymnasium buzzes for no reason, lights go out by
themselves even in good weather, and on one occasion a stack of papers was blown
off a desk when there were no windows open or fans on.
Hope - Jenny Jump State Park - There
are many different tales, but here is one of many. Jenny was a nine year old
girl who lived generations ago. The small white house where she lived stood far
below a high cliff. One day the child was picking berries or playing on the
rocks when an Indian surprised her. In great fear she called to her father for
help. He cried, "Jump, Jenny Jump!" The obedient child jumped from the
high rocky cliff to her death. Her small figure can still be seen
wandering around the location it is reported.
Hopewell - Barry's Chapel -
Off Route 77 and down a long dirt road, there are the remains of an old church.
It was built by a man with the last name of Barry many years ago. His wife had
mysteriously died. In a separate incident, his church burned down around the
same time as his wife's death. He later became guilt stricken and went to the
site of the burnt down church only to hang himself from a tree in the
churchyard. If you go there at night, you will see the church as if it was never
burnt. If you kick the foundation, the church bell will ring.
Howell - Allaire – Allaire Village
- Located in the middle of the park on Allaire Road. It is
an old iron fence from the 1900’s. Reports of an apparition of a woman in
white has been spotted between the park and the General Store.
Howell - Freewood acres –
Homeowner hears footsteps, screams and people banging on her door all at night.
Howell - In the woods - In
Howell there are woods that are haunted. 6:00 between 8:00 there are
noises coming from the woods. Often there are screams. One time a little girl
traveled into these woods and never came back. Sometimes you can hear her say “HELP
PLEASE IT HURTS!” It is believed that little girl name was Annmarie.
Jackson - Log Cabin Ruins - on
Bens Lane (a dirt road) toward the end of the road on the right, of in the
woods, there are 2-3 old stone foundations, all around it seems animals die,
many bones are visible on the ground for no apparent reason, when walking by at
twilight people have seen a woman sitting on the edge of the largest foundation
and crying, she is in transparent shaded of blue-gray.
Jersey City - 629 Grove St.
-Industrial Building - many employees have seen ghosts
wearing close with style from a different era. Feet running sounds and more,
screams all that happen on the second and third shift.
Jersey City - Daily News Building -
This place is haunted on a daily basis by the chief Machinist that was
supposedly beheaded by a disgruntled employee. Workers there say that they hear
the words "Jeezz I'm the Chief" coming from one of the offices late at
night.
Lakehurst - Lakehurst Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion 21 - Based at Lakehurst, our
compound is the supposed burial site of the remains of the Hindenburg which
crashed there, there have been many reports of sightings, doors closing, and
many other things that can not be explained that have happened there.
Lakehurst - Naval Air Station Hangar
1 and (former) surrounding tarmac, Notably during daylight
hours outside of Hangar 1, sound of men shouting "Away the lines, Christ be
blessed, away the lines!" as well as "She's afire!" Inside Hangar
1 during morning hours, the sound of engines whirring when no like equipment is
in operation. Possible ghosts of Graf Zeppelin Hindenburg crew, as well as US
Navy dirigible personnel, variously sited about Hangar 1 and forward locations.
Lambertville - Inn Of The Hawke - This
popular inn and restaurant is host to several different ghosts. There have been
occasional sightings that mainly consist of mischief and strange noises. Pots
and pans have been known to lift from their hooks and come crashing to the
ground. There are even pictures in one area of the inn that never seem to stay
on the walls, no matter how they are hanged.
Lambertville - Lambertville high
school - In the 1920's the boiler blew up killing everyone
on the bottom floors. It was rebuilt then abandoned in the 1950's due to zoning
issues. Kids are known to commit suicide from the third story gym windows.
Reports of free floating apparitions, cold spots, and sounds heard by the EVPs.
Also documented in pictures taken were ectoplasm like clouds and apparitions in
3rd floor window. Also strange noises when quiet. Plans to tear this building
down in the very near future.WARNING: if you go there do not park on
Washington street, you can get arrested for trespassing.
Landisville - Landisville Fire
Company - Cold Spots, Voices of both men and women, and
sounds that come from the loft and the back of the engine bays. Footsteps
can be heard.
Laurence Harbor - Bowne Provost
Family Cemetery - dates back to the civil war. Ghosts have
been seen here and mysterious figures.
Lavallette - The Murder house - Eighty
years ago, a middle aged sea captain purchased a large house on the boardwalk
facing the ocean. Legend states that he bought it for his young wife, who was
only eighteen at the time. A few years later, the Captain made his final voyage,
never to return. His young wife was said to have spent countless nights on the
widows walk, waiting for the Captain to return. One frigid January morning,
exactly two years after the Captain left, her body was found frozen on the
widows walk. To this day she can be seen standing on the widows walk, waiting
for her beloved to return.
Lincoln Park - Heartbeat Lane - A
strange sound that sounds like a heart beat, and you pass the house on your way
out, there will be a light on in the upstairs window.
Long Beach Island Haunted Beach - Sometimes
on the beach late at night you can hear the cries of people that have ship
wrecked on our beach. You know when they are near because you get a very cold
chill in your bones.
Long Valley / Middle Valley - its
the story of the hooker man, the story goes that a man carrying a lantern walks
the railroad tracks at night through long valley supposedly searching for the
severed arm he lost after being hit by the train.
Madison - Drew University - It
is believed that some of the dorms at this college are haunted by a skinny
college women from the 19th century.
Marlboro - Main Street Market
(formerly Andy K's) - Several former employees have
reported strange happenings after the store closes at night. The reflection of a
large man has been seen on the glass to the freezer case, which disappears upon
closer inspection. The ketchup and mustard bottles behind the counter tip
themselves over. Also, objects on the shelves are reported to have hurled
themselves across the room with great force.
Marlboro - Marlboro Mental
Institution - Reports of a rotten stench and a whistling
noise, feelings of being followed. Rumor has it that the land was originally a
slaughter house and the state wanted to take over and build a mental institution
on the land but the man wouldn’t allow it eventually the state just took the
land from the owner of the slaughter house and built thier mental institution
somehow eventually the owner of the land ended up in the institute as a patient
he broke loose one night and they never found him the pat
