Absecon Cemetery/The temple of Hope and Knowledge/Insulator House

So since I had nothing to do today and I haven’t gone in a while, I decided to go to a location today. I called up my Grandpa last night and he said he had a Dentist appointment this morning but after he could go. Since the places I wanted to go to were like right down the street it didn’t really matter what time we went. So after his appointment he called me up and i headed over to his house. 

The first place we went was to a cemetery in Absecon. Its located on New Jersey Ave. This guy told Weird NJ that we was there and he saw a little girl in the graveyard, when he looked back to see if she was there she was gone. So we checked it out. It was REALLY cold but on the bright side i got to use my new camera which worked out great. We took some pictures and there was really nothing to see so we got back in the car and headed to the next place.

The next place was the Temple of Hope and Knowledge. It is a church in shape of three pyramids. the two on the sides are little but the one in the middle is big. We tried to get in but there wasn’t even a doorknob! I don’t really know the story behind it but it’s a church located in Pomona on route 30. It is currently not called the temple of hope and knowledge, its another type of church and the yard and building is not very well maintained.

Lastly, we went to the Insulator house. It a house off of Jimmie Leeds road in Galloway that has all these little green bottles, for electricity or something,  on a fence. There are legit like a million of these bottles. I was afraid the guy who owned the house would come out and yell to stop taking pictures of his house but nothing happened. I’m always so paranoid! 

More locations to come soon!

The Grave of the Gypsy King/Drew University/Bayley Ellard High School

So today was yet another day of visiting locations. I slept over my friends house the night before and stayed up late so i was pretty tired when i woke up this morning. I got up, drove to my Grandpa’s house and we got in his car and headed up to Madison. It took us about 2 hours to get there so it was a pretty long trip. Today we were visiting the gypsy king, drew university, and the bayley ellard high school.
We pulled up to the Hillside cemetery and parked up on the hill. I could already tell it was a old cemetery. There were gravestones there from the late 1700’s. I took some pictures of the cemetery from on top of the hill and worked my way down the hill to the bottom and i found the grave of the Gypsy King, Naylor Harrison. I don’t quite understand how he is the “gypsy king” but it is in Weird NJ so i have to visit it. We took a couple pictures and headed down the street to Drew University.

 Drew University is a private college, one i could never afford but one of the buildings, Mead Hall, is said to be haunted by the originals mansions owner’s wife. Something like that. So we parked and snapped a couple pictures. then it was my grandpa’s idea to go inside. i wasn’t crazy about it but when we walked inside it was so nice. it made me want to go to college there! it was an old college so the buildings are old. Mead hall burnt down and was rebuilt in the 90’s so it wasn’t the original building.

Next we stopped at McDonald’s to get something to eat and we ate at the same McDonald’s we ate at when we went to go to Morristown.

Lastly we went to the Bayley Ellard High School. It was a catholic high school that closed down in 2005. I thought it was sitting there abandoned but it was being used by the church. It a catholic center for evangelization called St. Paul inside the walls. we took the pictures from the outside and once again my grandpa wanted to adventure to the inside so i said ok. First off the building itself was beautiful and when we walked inside it was even more nice :D We talked to the front desk lady and she was nice she told us the history of the school and such and this one guy told us about all the construction that took the re-do the place. Its not like the place is open for tours but we just decided to go inside.

After that we got back in the car and headed back home. Now to get ready for the next location! 

The Inventor of Octane pt. 2

So i was supposed to wake up at the same time my boyfriend woke up today for school which is around 7:30 to get up and go back to the cemetery to find the Inventor of Octane. But our bed was so warm and cozy that i didn't want to get up so i slept right through the morning. When my boyfriend got out of school at like 10:45 he called and was like "i'm guessing you didn't go" and i said no and he laughed. But when he got home his friend called him asking him if he wanted to go to the gym and my boyfriend was willing to go so i decided while he was at the gym i would go to the cemetery.

So at like 12:15ish i got in my car and went to the cemetery while my boyfriend got in his car to go to the gym. Mind you i hate going to locations alone. i don't know i why i just don't like it. But i drove the 15 mins it took to get from his house to the Cemetery. I got there and there were like 5 cars there and i was wondering if there was a funeral today but it was just all people paying their respects. I got out of the car and began my search for the inventor of octane. i pulled up what the gravestone looked like and looked and looked section by section. I was in the front section when i decided to go down the stairs that were there to the bottom of a hill where there were three memorial gravestones. one was to something, i have no idea because the whole gravestone was in Russian. The Middle gravestone was just the name of the church and when it was founded and lastly the one on the left said someones name and then THE INVENTOR OF OCTANE. i was like holy crap i just found it. If i never came down the hill i would have spent all that time in the actual cemetery looking for it and would have never found it. I took some pictures with my Camera and my phone and sent a pictures message to my boyfriend. I got in the car and headed home. 

When i got back to my boyfriends house i told him where it was and he was like omg we were in the exact same spot yesterday! If only we looked harder at the gravestones!

So i'm happy i found it. And now were going to another location on Thursday, my grandpa is coming to this one so hopefully the weather is good!

The Inventor of Octane

So since i was staying at my boyfriends house this weekend i found a nearby location we could do. It was about a ten min ride from his house. It was the St. Mary’s Russian orthodox Church Cemetery. The inventor of Octane is buried there. So since we were at a get together with his friends last night and slept in till 12 then took a shower we didn’t leave the house until about 2:30 which is fine because it’s not like it was a long trip anyway.

I have seen the cemetery before on the way to the Deb grave in Imlaystown and i thought it looked nice and then when i got the Weird NJ magazines issues 4, 5, and 6 one of them mentioned that the Inventor of Octane was buried at this cemetery. So i told my boyfriend about it and he was down to go next time i went up. 

We drove up into the middle of the cemetery and parked. We got out and there were a TON of gravestones. i would say over 1,000 were buried there and it was a huge cemetery too. I had no idea what the gravestone of the octane guy looked like let alone know where it was located in the cemetery. So we just started looking around taking pictures of gravestones that looked cool. There was this big morgue in the middle-ish of the cemetery that was pretty cool. We found a couple gravestones that had the top of it has the top of a russian church. Most gravestones though had the Russian Cross as the top. While walking around my boyfriend whipped out his phone and googled the inventor of octane and found a picture of what the gravestone looked like. It was small and looked like alot of the other gravestones there. So since the cemetery was so big and we were running out of daylight we decided to just go home. I also took some pictures of the exterior of the church and we got back in the car and took a trip to the deb grave since it was about a 10 min drive from where we were and i really wanted to show my boyfriend. We didn’t spend too much time there and went home since we were freezing cold. 

My boyfriend has to get up early for school so i decided i’m going back to the cemetery to look for the gravestone of the inventor of octane and see if i can find it. Even though it will proly be really cold but whatever. 

"Evil" Tombstone, Bayard's Chocolates

So i haven't done really anything in a while, i got all tied up with work and school but sometime last week i decided i was going to do a location. i wanted to do one that was near my boyfriends house since the only day i could do it was on Friday, October 5th, and i was going to my boyfriends house that day. so i asked my boyfriend if it was OK if we did it, he said fine, so i started looking. Since my boyfriend lives in east nowhere i decided to go do the "evil" tombstone in Cinnaminson since his sister lives in Delran which is right next to Cinnamison and we had planned to go there Friday night to party. So it totally worked out. Also i had gotten the new Weird NJ magazine and they had an article on Bayards Chocolates which is also in Cinnaminson so i also wanted to go there.
So we got up on Friday and didn't leave until 3:00 pm because i didn't think looking for the tombstone wouldn't take long. The thing was in the book it just says "in a cemetery in Cinnaminson" it doesn't say which. There are like 7 cemeteries in Cinnaminson. So we started with the first one on the list, i put in the address in my GPS on my new iPhone and we headed there. when we got to the address there was a church, but no cemetery. So we crossed that one off and headed to the next one, which when i looked at the map was a BIG cemetery. When we got there we both realized that the whole cemetery was all in-ground tombstones, no above-ground ones and the "evil" tombstone was above the ground. Right next to it was a cemetery at a church so we decided to look around there. we looked for maybe about a half hour and realized it wasn't there. We got back in the car and i remembered there was another big cemetery in Cinnaminson that wasn't on my list, i looked for it on the map on my phone and found it, Morgan cemetery. i put it into the GPS on my phone and it only took about 5 minuets to get there. We parked in the back and got out of the car. i told Steven to start looking on one side while i looked on the other side. So i began to go up and down the aisles i was on the fourth or fifth isle when i saw a tombstone with red paint on the side i walked up and sure enough it was the "evil" Tombstone! See legend has it that the evil tombstone which looks like it spells out the word evil, seen in the picture below, has witch buried underneath when really the word evil isn't really evil at all, it's Arabic lettering which spells out "glory of all glories" something like that. Anyway then i called my boyfriend over and we took some pictures.

After we accomplished that we got back in the car and headed towards Bayard's Chocolates. Its a little store on 130 in Cinnaminson that sells all kinds of chocolates. Supposedly someone is buried in the backyard or the place is haunted. either one its still in the Weird NJ series. It was about 5:30 when we got there, the sun was starting to drop so we quickly went inside and looked around at all the chocolate! we didn't know what to buy not to mention everything was on the pricey side. The girls who worked there were very nice and we walked out of the store with a pound of fudge, vanilla, Peanut butter and chocolate, and chocolate and raspberry (that was Stevens idea i hate raspberry) we took some pictures and then went on our merry way to his sisters apartment to party it up :)

Turtle Back Rock/ Crystal Lake/ Rosedale Cemetery

So i went on yet another adventure to take some pictures. This time i went all the way to North Jersey, West Orange to be exact. My Grandpa went with me (don't make fun) because he enjoys on going on adventures with me and i enjoy the company. 
First we headed over to South Mountain Reservation where the Turtle Back Rock is, that was the main reason why we went there. I also wanted to see the scenic lookout where you can see New York City and the Hemlock Falls. First we went to see the Scenic Lookout. When we got out it was so thick and hazy outside you couldn't see the city! so we got back in the car and i took a look at the map and noticed that there was no parking near hemlock falls, so you would have to hike a while to get to it and because i had my grandpa with me who can do limited walking i decided to skip that. I also wanted to see the Orange reservoir but there was some party going on by it we also decided to skip that, but the main reason why we were going there was for the Turtle Back Rock and we were not going to skip that. We turned onto Walker Ave. found the entrance and parked the car in the lot. We found the path and we got a little lost but we eventually found the Turtle Back Rock, it was pretty cool. The rock is a huge boulder with some type of carvings that make the rock look like the back of a turtle shell. No one knows if it was natural or man made. After about a half hour of walking we finally made it back to the car and headed up to Crystal Lake.

Crystal Lake is located on the Orange Mountain right off Eagle Rock Ave, across from Eagle Rock Reservation and right behind the Eagle Rock Bowling Ally. Everything was eagle rock which i found kind of funny. Back in the day before the bowling ally was there, it used to be a amusement park and eventually it was abandoned and torn down. The only thing left of the amusement park is the lake, crystal lake. There are also said to be cannibals there at night. Nothing special really went on there while we visited, we just got out took a couple pictures and headed of to the Rosedale Cemetery.

The Rosedale Cemetery and Crematory is this HUGE cemetery located in west orange right off Orange ave of Washington St.,Depending on which entrance you come into. We went into the Orange Ave. entrance and parked the car. I walked around a bit while my grandpa stayed in the car to call my grandma. What a beautiful cemetery! It's all laid out nice and very well maintained. I found there were a lot of gravestones of Celtic crosses which makes me think there are a lot of Irish buried there. There were some Pretty Mausoleums there and some cool statues. I got a really awesome picture of three angels it looks like for hope, faith, and charity. After walking around there for about an hour we decided to head back home. 

In between Turtle Back and and Crystal lake we got pizza not to far some South Mountain reservation and it was horrible. It was like eating souse and cheese crackers the crust was thin, i just wanted to share that lol.

Holy, Holy Holy/ Man in the Iron Casket/ Face in the sidewalk

So after a long while since i went to a place for my documentary due to money problems but now that i have a new job i decided to get my documentary back on track. So i decided my next place would be to visit the holy, holy, holy alter, the man in the iron casket and the face in the sidewalk all located in historic mount holly. My boyfriend, steven, lives about 15 minuets away in a little town called wrightstown so i went up yesterday (July 12) after work and stayed the night. Then this morning we both got up and headed over to Mount Holly. First we visited the Man in the Iron casket. Now if i did my research correctly, The man is named Hezekiah B. Smith who owned the Smithville Mansion located in Smithville not too far away from Mount Holly. He was in love with a women named Angus, but she was not his legal wife. The rest of his family lived somewhere else, not in NJ, so when he died, to be forever next to his lover, he commanded that he be buried with a concrete slab under him, have his cakset be made out of Iron and ontop, another concrete slab, so that there would be no way for anyone to move him.

 Next we went to the Holy, Holy, Holy, alter on the mount off High street. we walked up to it, took some pictures. Legend has it that the alter houses the Jersey Devil and a women is chained up inside who woships the devil or something like that. I tried to find the Witches well too but i couldn't find it. I thought i found it near the water tower but im not 100% sure that was it or not.

 Lastly we went to see the face in the sidewalk. Basically it was just a concrete face sticking out from the edge of the sidewalk. Nothing really to be said about it.