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