Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State
Phantom pirates, water monsters, and mythical snakes figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Garden State. From this state’s bucolic, rolling farmland to its heavily populated shore come a variety of stories and legends, including a murderer whose body parts were used for medical (and other) experiments, the “White Pilgrim” who died of the disease he believed he could never get, and an Indian chief who used a swastika to protect a group of defenseless schoolgirls.
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Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State
Phantom pirates, water monsters, and mythical snakes figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Garden State. From this state’s bucolic, rolling farmland to its heavily populated shore come a variety of stories and legends, including a murderer whose body parts were used for medical (and other) experiments, the “White Pilgrim” who died of the disease he believed he could never get, and an Indian chief who used a swastika to protect a group of defenseless schoolgirls.
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Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State

Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State

Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State

Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State

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Phantom pirates, water monsters, and mythical snakes figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Garden State. From this state’s bucolic, rolling farmland to its heavily populated shore come a variety of stories and legends, including a murderer whose body parts were used for medical (and other) experiments, the “White Pilgrim” who died of the disease he believed he could never get, and an Indian chief who used a swastika to protect a group of defenseless schoolgirls.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493045723
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 06/11/2020
Series: Haunted Series
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 152
Sales rank: 487,992
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Patricia A. Martinelli lives in southern New Jersey and is the administrator of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. Charles A. Stansfield Jr. lives in Pitman, New Jersey, and was professor of geography at Rowan University for 41 years. He is the author of 11 books on the paranormal.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

A Brief History of Ghosts and Legends xiii

Northeastern Metro 1

The Ghosts of Ringwood 5

George Washington's Geographer 6

Other Ghosts of Ringwood 7

The Ghost of William Franklin: A Father-and-Son Tragedy 8

Hannah Caldwell 9

Captain Huddy's Ghost 10

The Six Roads Ghost 11

Cruel and Unusual Punishment 13

Neighborhood Feud 14

From the Ramapo Mountains 14

Newark's Gully Road Ghost 15

Newark's Witch, Moll DeGrow 16

The Story of John Thompson 16

The Haunted Library 17

Communicating with the Dead? 19

Northwest 23

The Tale of Jennie McRea 27

The Hollow Earth Theory 27

The White Pilgrim 29

Water-Dwelling Monsters 30

Brant, the Indian Chief 31

Tom Quick and the Ninety-nine Indian Ghosts 31

The Great Chief Who Wouldn't Leave His People 34

The Treasure of Schooley's Mountain 35

The Switchback Canal 36

The Ghost That Protects Rattlesnakes 37

Uncle Phillip Turns the Tables 38

Lucy Awaits Her True Love 39

Domestic Ghosts 41

A Family of Ghosts 41

A Visitor from the West 42

Central Corridor and Philadelphia Metro 45

New Jersey's Royal Ghost 49

The Ghosts of Aaron Burr, Father and Son 50

Bad Vibrations 51

A Brotherly Argument 52

Babe in the Woods 53

The Duck Island Killer 53

Colonel Tom and the Captain 55

The Jersey Witch Trials 56

The Pirate Tree 58

Jersey Lightning and the Clever Indian 60

The Mount Holly Jail 61

Runnemede's Restless Spirit 62

The Phantom Butler 63

Just Doing His Job 65

Cynthia Knew 66

Southwestern Farm Belt 69

A Trial by Witchcraft 73

Another Monstrous Visitor 73

The Patriotic Ghosts of Hancock House 74

The Haunted Schoolteacher 75

The World's Largest Ghost 76

The Confederate Ghosts of Finn's Point 76

Some Ghosts of Gloucester County 78

A Gentle Spirit 80

UFOs in New Jersey? 82

Pinelands and Seashore 85

The Burrowes Tragedy 89

Ghost Towns of the Pinelands 90

King of the Woods: The Jersey Devil 91

The Dancing Bandit 94

The Pine Robbers 95

The Bottomless "Blue Hole" 96

The Hexed Town of Catawba 97

The White Stag of Shamong 99

The Tale of Goody Garlick 100

The Ghost Doctor Who Made House Calls 101

Fiddling with the Devil 102

The Wizard of Hanover Furnace 103

A Ghostly Union 104

Bessie's Coming-Out Party 106

The Wreck of the Blue Comet 107

Shipwrecks 109

Pirates and Their Treasures 117

Sailing Lore 118

The End of an "Era" 121

The Morro Castle Disaster 121

The Philadelphia Experiment 122

The Ghosts of Barnegat 125

The Woman in White 126

Haunts of the Supernatural 128

Ghostly Guidelines 129

Ghost Tours in the Garden State 131

Acknowledgments 133

Recommended Reading 134

About the Authors 136

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