Dennisville Cedar Swamp

So today since i had nothing to do i figured i would do a location. For Christmas i got issues 4, 5, and 6 of Weird NJ and one of them had mentioned something in Dennisville which is about 45 mins from my house. It talked about the cedar tree industry in the town. So i got in my car this afternoon and drove down to Dennisville. I drove down Jake’s Landing Rd. to find myself surrounded my cedar trees. i drove all the way out to the boating launch by the river, and took some pictures there. Then i got back in my car and went into the woods to take some pictures of the cedar trees. I also found a random grave of someone. The wind was really strong today it almost knocked me over, especially by the river and it was freezing out.

When i got back in my car i noticed i had no gas, and i was in the middle of nowhere. So i got back on 47 and drove east until i got to route 9. I drove up route 9 until i got into Ocean View and behold i found a Wawa with gas. I drove up route 9 more until it turned into the parkway. i just got over the ocean city bridge and there was a cop behind me with his lights on. my heart stopped. I pulled over and he got the guy in front of me. Sigh of relief. 

So that’s my adventure to Dennisville today :)

The Union hotel

So today i went for my trip to Flemington, NJ. I got my grandpa at 9 and we headed up the long trip. we took a whole bunch of back roads to get to I-95 the 295 then 95, it was so confusing. But we got there in pretty good timing. First we took a stop at the Union hotel. The Union hotel used to be a hotel and then was turned into a restaurant. Then in 2008 it closed up but recently they have had ideas of re-developing the building. The Hotel is said to be haunted. So we parked got out took some pictures and then got back in the car.

So my aunt and uncle live in Flemington so we went to go visit them and ate at this country restaurant  It was pretty good. Then we went to go find the 'Our Ham Came From a Chicken' sign located on the outskirts of Flemington on Decker rd. We drove up and down the road like twice and couldn't find it. Then right around the Corner was the abandoned tower, Mary's tower. It was said to be burnt down in 2008, but i still wanted to go. I found the path to go there but it was a No Trespassing zone so my grandpa said we shouldn't do that so we just went home. So no luck on the the last two but atleast we got the Union hotel :)

On to the Next one..... 

Atco Ghost, Atsion Lake, Carranza Monument

So last night i called my grandpa and asked him even though it was short notice, if we wanted to go to do a Location today since we can't do it Monday. He said he had plans. So this morning my mom wakes me up saying that he just called saying his plans were cancelled. So i got up and packed up the car, picked up my grandpa and we went to Atco, NJ.
Atco, NJ is home to the Atco ghost located on Burnt Mill Road. They say a kid got hit by a car chasing his basketball. If you park at the end of the road and turn off the lights and the engine and wait the ghost will appear. Well since we were not doing this at night, we just went to the end of the road, saw that there were soccer players playing in the rec. field, then turned around and took a quick picture under the street sign.

Next we got on chew rd. and onto 206 and headed up to Atsion Lake. There is a mansion there that is supposedly haunted. We parked the car in the parking lot and walked around taking pictures of the mansion and other buildings around it. I was looking in the woods and i saw another building in there but i figured we can hit it on the way back home since we were passing it anyway. 

Next we got pizza at Red Star Pizzeria. I went to this place on my way back home from Hurricane Harbor at Great Adventure so i knew the pizza was good. We then headed towards Tabernacle to see the Carranza Monument. Its located on Carranza rd. So we got on the road and we drove, and drove, and drove until we were in the middle of the Pine Barrens of Warren State Forest and we still didn't see it. Then we found it! It was about 4 miles away from 206. We got out took some pictures and left.

After we got back on 206 we stopped to see the building i saw in the woods, turns out it was a church that had a whole bunch of old gravestones in it by it. So we took some pictures and left for home. 

Lincoln's NJ Roots/Crematory Hill/Bowling Ball Grave/Jersey Jungle

So i got a lot accomplished on today's location trip to central jersey. I didn't pick my grandpa up this morning until 11:00 and we didn't get on the road until 11:15 but we took the parkway up and shot across the state to Imlaystown, NJ where the Deb grave or where Abe Lincoln's NJ family was buried. The history behind it is that Lincoln's family, even before Abe Lincoln was born, in the early 1700's, tow brothers became a blacksmith and had families and such in Monmouth county. One of the brothers had a daughter who died at the age of 3 and is buried at the Ye Old Robbin's Burial Place. So after searching on the web a couple of days before i went it said the grave was on the side of this road, in the woods, but there was a path to get there so i though oh no big deal we park on the side of the road, walk through the path and get to the cemetery, WRONG. Trees were knocked over and thorns were everywhere so my grandpa defiantly could not trudge through the path but i decided to go further, find the grave site  take some pictures and come back. I went to the woods more about to give up when i find a whole bunch of headstones in the woods, i found the Deb grave and took a couple pictures and headed back to the car. I took a picture of the cemetery sign for the album.

Next it was onto the next location, Crematory Hill. Crematory Hill is on Disbrow rd in Monroe Township, it used to be a scare back in the 70's where boys would take girls to scare the hell out of them. The crematory used to be on top of this hill on the road that people say was haunted. The crematory was demolished and in replace, a development. I still wanted to go to the hill and see what it was like. It was nothing really, kind stupid, so i took a picture under the street sign.

After that we had to head over to Freehold to see the bowling ball grave but before that we needed to eat so we decided on Mcdonalds, but we couldn't find the McDonalds in Freehold so we ate at the food court in the mall instead. We got back in the car and headed to Rose of Lima cemetery located on freehold-englishtown rd. We entered the cemetery and drove around looking for the bowling ball grave. we found it in the way corner of the cemetery, It was the grave of Arthur Sullivan, took a quick picture and headed on to the next location.

Lastly, this wasn't a big location either, but the next location was Jersey Jungle. Jersey Jungle was this zoo type thing in the middle of the woods that had exotic animals. It opened in the 70's and closed shortly after. Now there is nothing left. I couldn't go through the woods to find it because my grandpa can't do that so i decided to take a picture, in the woods near where it was, in Howell township right off of route 33 east. so we got off and took this wonderful picture of me in the woods. whatever. Then we headed on home.

Cape May Bunker

So since i found out last night i that i didn't have work i decided to go down to the Cape May Bunker and take pictures. I've done everything in that area except i needed a picture of me in front of the bunker to add to my album. So i got in my car this morning at around 11:30 and headed down the parkway. I then got off at Shellbay ave where i usually get off and i follow the signs for the Cape May Lighthouse. I was going down route 9 when i saw that the street i usually take by this school was ripped up. i then had to find another way to get to where i was going. I must have drove around cape may a million times before i found which was i had to go. I made it to the bunker and found out they were doing construction there on the beach with some huge pipe things i don't really know what they were doing but at first i thought i wasn't aloud on the beach but  i went anyway and i saw some people standing by the water so you were aloud on the beach. i took a picture of me by the bunker and went back to my car because it was so cold. i then wanted to take pictures in the historic part of cape may where all the little shops are but every other road was closed i couldn't find my way so i just went back home. and that was my trip.

The Wreck of the Sinda

So i have not been able to do any locations in a while due to hurricane sandy but today i was bored sitting around my house when i decided to go to a location close to my house. Ocean city is about 20 minuets away so i decided to go visit the wreck of the Sinda. The Sinda was a ship that crashed on the beach of Ocean city near 18th street. you can't actually see the ship it's way under the sand but it still is a location for the documentary so i got in my car and headed down to OC. 
when i got there it was really windy and cold so i wanted to make it a quick trip. I parked on like 14th street and began walking up the boardwalk until i got to the sigh about the wreck of the sinda. I took a picture with me in it standing next to the sign and then again of just the sign and head back the other way towards the rides and stuff. Then my ears started to hurt from the cold so i decided to just go home instead of taking pictures of the amusements which are shut down for the season. 
So it was just a short trip and a sporadic one at that. Hopefully going to get ready for the next location soon :)

The Chapel of the Dead Nun/ Washington's Headquaters

So my grandpa calls me up like last week and asks me if i have any locations near Morristown i said yes, some, and i asked why. He has a friend in the hospital dying of prostate cancer and wants to go visit him and was wondering if i had any locations up there for a my project so we can get some done. So i did some research and had a couple things to do up there. so today me and my grandpa got in the car and headed up to Morristown
The first thing we were gonna do was to look for the Chapel of the Dead Nun. Local legends say that a dead nun is buried in little hut off of western ave in Morristown but in reality its just a little hut on the side of the road. At first we couldn't find it so we parked in the national guard recruiter. My grandpa went to the bathroom while i took a look around to see if i could find it. all i saw was this huge tower on top of this hill so i went back to the car and told my grandpa lets go over the hill maybe its somewhere around there. So we got back in the car, went over the hill and found ourself's in the middle of an all girls catholic college prep school. the place was beautiful. We took a couple pictures of the big tower and i remember seeing this little hut by the road before we got into the prep school. i then suggested we turn around and go see what it was. sure enough it was the Chapel of the Dead Nun. Too bad it was near a house! But i'm pretty sure its the house for the caretaker of the school, you know like the guy that does all the landscaping and stuff. So we took a couple pictures of the "chapel" and headed on to the next place.

After we went to go get a bite to eat at the nicest McDonalds i have ever seen, we went over to the hospital where my grandpa's friend is staying. it was really sad he was hooked up to a whole bunch of tube and he looked like he was barley hanging on. We stayed there for about a half hour talking. Then we left to go to the next location: Washington's headquarters.
We got really confused on the way there but we eventually made it there. Washington's headquarters were George Washington's Morristown headquarters during the revolutionary war. it is at Ford's Mansion. We got there and went into the museum where it was like 100 degrees. We looked around and such and then went over to see the Mansion. We took some pictures and our luck, the mansion was locked. So we just decided to go onward to the next location.

After that we decided to go to the 300 stone steps in Morris Plain's We drove all the way up this hill and got to the park where the steps are located. Don't let the internet fool you! the internet made it seem like the steps were a hop skip and a jump away from the park but in reality it was really up this steep mountain through this path that my grandpa defiantly could not do. So since it was going on 3:00 already and since we had a 2 hour drive home, we decided to just end it for today and go home. 

Double Trouble State Park/ Al Capone's Summer home

When i woke up this morning i looked outside all excited to go to a location today and i saw it was raining. I got very disappointed and decided to go anyway maybe there it wasn't raining. So we got in the car, my boyfriend and i, and it was raining pretty hard. We stopped at a CVS to get a rain poncho see if that would help. We drove all the way out to Bayville, NJ and kept getting lost but we eventually made it to Double Trouble State Park. We parked the car and it was raining a tiny bit so i tried putting on the poncho but i made it have a big hole in it so i said forget it and made my boyfriend hold it while i took pictures. There are a lot of wooden houses there where it used to be homes for the people who worked in the Cranberry Bogs. I took some pictures of those. We followed the path and found the Cedar Creek. We also found a big lake filled with Cranberries and i took pictures of those. So what is so special about Double Trouble State Park? Well somewhere deep in the woods there is a area where there is a perfect circle of no trees. Some people say a meteor hit there and some say it was a UFO that landed there. Either way its a little weird. I was not going to go hiking though the woods looking for this because it would have took forever and my boyfriend would have strangled me. Plus we would have had to take canoes because that is how everyone else found it. Anyway then we got back in the car and drove to the next place.

We drove down Double Trouble road and i wanted to take a picture under the road sign. The one side of the road was too busy and i didn't want people to be like "what the hell are they doing?" so we went up the road a little bit and found an intersection where there was not so many cars. We quickly snapped the picture and went to the next place

Finally we drove up a road a little further to get to a place called Crystal Lake Rehabilitation center. Its basically a physical Therapy place where when you brake a bone or get into a car accident stuff like that. But  it used to be a hotel and legend has it that before that it used to be Al Capone's summer home. There is said to be underground tunnels beneath the pond in the front of the building where he used to hide when the cops came looking. I thought It was interesting. so we snapped some pictures and i was trying not to get yelled at or something but we got the pictures and went on our way back home.

Bethlehem Loading Company

so today i had nothing to do. i decided i wanted to do one of my locations that was close to home so i decided to do the abandoned Bethlehem Loading Company in Estell Manor which is about a 15 minute ride from my house. So i packed up my car, stopped at Wawa for a Dr.Pepper and headed on over there. I pulled into the park and soon found out the boardwalk thing through the woods to get to the abandoned ruins was closed off so i got back ion my car and took the back unpaved road to the abandoned ruins. I started taking some pictures when i hear a rattling noise suddenly 10 feet in front of me was like a 3 foot rattlesnake. i never ran to my car so fast but i got some good pictures so i was happy. I drove around the park some more to take other pictures but there were a lot of people around so i just decided to go home.

"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 :)

Haunted Church Tunnel/The Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology

so yesterday i went on another on one of my little adventures.

Me and my grandfather traveled all the way up to Belleville, NJ to go take pictures of the Belleville Reformed Church and this abandoned Hospital called the Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology. First we parked right on main street and walked up to the Belleville Reformed Church which is said to have haunted church tunnels underneath. it was founded in 1697 and was rebuilt in 1725 and again in 1807. It was a lookout for soldiers during the American Revolution. The current building was built in 1853. So we got out of the car and started taking pictures of the building. it was a beautiful building. Then my grandpa decided he wanted to go inside so i agreed and we tried opening every door but none of them would budge. it was a shame too because i really wanted to see the inside :( then we went around and found the cemetery were over 60 revolutionary soldiers are buried but just like the doors to the church the gate to the cemetery was locked and there was no way to get over the fence. so we go in the car and left to the next spot.

We only had to drive about 3 minuets and then out in this huge field was the Center for Molecular medicine and Immunology. It's now abandoned and falling apart but thats the beauty in abandoned buildings. So we going to walk around the block and up the driveway to the hospital but my grandpa couldn't walk that far. so we decided the drive around the back of it and walk to the front and take pictures but when we got to the back there was a cop. my heart sank but my grandpa wanted to get out and talk to the cop to see if we could just take pictures of the outside not the inside but when he talked to the women cop she said she really couldn't do that because she would defiantly get fired if she did which is totally understandable. She said if we wanted we could walk to the sidewalk in the front and take pictures there. So we drove around to the front and took pictures there.

After we were hungry and my grandpa wanted McDonalds and the nearest one was in East Orange. When we walked into the McDonalds everyone was starring at us because we the only white people there. The place was a dump too it was so gross. But we ate and got out ok. Now onto the next adventure!

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.

Georgian Court University/ The JL tree/ Moon Motel

So today i went on another adventure to take some pictures. First my boyfriend and i headed on over to Georgian Court University. The College is all fenced in so we though we wouldn't be able to get in because after all it is a private college. But we parked on a side street and walked in through this nice entrance gate thing. All i have to say is what a beautiful school it is! I wish i could go to school there, but then again i'm not rich haha. We walked around, took some pictures of statues, trees, nice things. I was waiting for security to ask us what we were doing there because it's summer and no one should really be walking around a college like that but we didn't get bothered at all. It was getting really hot outside so we tried to stay in the shade as much as possible. After taking a few pictures i decided that was enough so we got in the car and headed to the JL tree.
Now for those of you who don't know about the JL tree, here is some information:
As of right now where the JL tree stands is The Ocean County Garage where they store like snow salt and trucks and stuff but back in the 70's there used to be a park. In the 70's a boy named Jimmy Lynch was in the park late at night when rumor has it that 4 boys from school who stabbed him to death. When he died his girlfriend carved the letters JL into a tree. Since then the branches of the tree have formed into a J and a L. The L looks a little off but the J is defiantly there. So after visiting Georgian Court we headed on over there. When we got there i spotted it right away. We got out, took some pictures, and headed off quickly because we were trespassing and didn't want to get caught.
The next and final stop was the Moon Motel. there is not story to this one, it just has a weird name and is located in the weird NJ books as a minor roadside attraction. We parked behind the sonic and walked over to the sign. the sign looked ancient. It was rusted and the lights were falling off. Not only was the sign a wreck but so was the Motel! The pool was empty and the gate getting into there was broken, and there were weeds around it everywhere. Defiantly not a nice place to stay. There were reviews about the Motel online and alot of people said it was trashy and was a popular place for drug deals. 
After that we headed up to freehold to go to the mall to get my sister a present for her 18th birthday :)


Here is me at Georgian Court:

and me at the JL Tree

and finally me at the moon motel

Bayside

so once again i've been here before but i'm going to blog about it now.
In the way south of New jersey by the Delaware bay sits this little place called bayside. there is nothing there, absolutely nothing except for some people sometimes fishing and stuff. The place used to be called the Caviar capital of the world but in the middle of the 20th century the fish eggs where caviar comes from declined and they named the spot bayside.
So one day i made my way down there. There are a bunch of roads you have to go down to get to the place and you pass by a lot of houses that look like they belong in the 1700's. Once you get down to bayside you can go on either of the two roads that brings you out to the bay.
Nothing really special about this place its in the middle of nowhere and there isn't anything to see really.

Menz Restaurant

So once again i went a while ago but i'm going to blog about it now.
So Menz Restaurant is a little family owned Restaurant located in Rio Grande on the way the Cape May. They have really delisious food! I went past it with my ex boyfriend one day while i was filiming in cape may but it looked closed so we didn't go inside. Then one day after looking at cats in ocean city me, my sister, and her boyfriend decided to take a trip down there. So we got inside and noticed all the weird decor. We got a seat, ordered our food and when we ate it, it was like heaven the food was amazing! Although the food was amazing the bill was not, the food is expensive but to me it was totally worth it.
I went there again with my family and my grandparents. They agreed the food was really good and well worth the money.

 

The Mysterious Green Pond

like i said before, i've been here way before but i'm blogging about it now.
So one day i found out there was a location right by my house as Birch Grove park in Northfield so i decided to go. The location was a mysterious green pond. See now most ponds or rivers around here are brown because of all the iron but just like the blue hole in winslow (except for its green not blue) it not brown. So one day i got my camera and got in the car and took a ride over. it took me a while to find it even though all i had to do was walk straight back from this huge path, but it was a long walk. So i found it, took a couple pictures and headed off. Another location that was pretty uneventful

The Bull God

so once again, i've been here way before but i'm going to blog about it now.
So on the same trip i went to on to see Purgatory Road i also went to go see this thing called the Bull God, basically it's this big statue of a bull holding a snake that was used as a movie prop in the 30's i think. Now it is just sitting in someones backyard which the house is also vacant. So me and my grandfather took the ride on over to Lumberton where the statue is located and we drove all the way up the road until we found it. We pulled over and got out and trudged through the weeds until we got to the statue. We took a couple pictures and then got back in the car and either went to the next location or went home.
Yea the location was pretty uneventful.

The Essex County Hospital Center

I went to this place a way long time ago but i'm going to blog about it now.
Anyway, i was sitting at home and i saw something on the website nj.com about the essex county hospital center aka overbrook being torn down soon so i said to myself that i had to go see it before anything happens. So me and my awesome grandpa got in the car and headed for the 2 hour drive up to cedar grove. I was really excited but nervous to go to the hospital. Excited because c'mon its an abandoned asylum and nervous because i didn't want to get caught. going north on the road we first got out on the left side where all the small buildings were we started to look around a bit and not even 5 minuets into our adventure we heard a loud bang and crash from inside one of the buildings. I assumed it was an animal. We then went over on the right side to where the wards were. We walked around on the outside for a really long time when my grandpa decided that we should go inside. So we went inside the kitchen first and looked around. they still had cans of food sitting there. i thought that was kind of gross. Anyway, then we went over to where the rooms were. Once i got inside i got the creepy feeling that someone was watching me. We poked around a little and decided to head back out because all there really was to see where more wards and they all looked the same. We didn't go to the morgue because we couldn't find it haha. so we only spent about 2 hours there and the good thing was we didn't get caught, no police no security guards, nothing it was awesome. This place has been by far my favorite place i've been to.

The Blue Hole

So today i went to take a trip to the infamous Blue Hole in Winslow, NJ. 
For those of you who don't know what they blue hole is let me tell you.
The blue hole is a 100 ft almost round pond that is said to be bottomless. legend has it that if you swim in the blue hole a whirlpool will come up and suck you under. It is also said that it is a popular hang out for the Jersey Devil. In the 1930's it use to be a popular swim spot but soon sometime in the 1940's a storm came and washed away the bridge getting to the Blue hole. The water is perfectly clear unlike the other ponds located around it which are brown in color because of the iron in the ground, known to the locals as Cedar Water. the blue hole is also said to be freeing cold, even on the hottest days like today. Sometimes almost as low as 40 degrees.
So i packed up my car and headed down route 322 aka black horse pike, stopped at a wawa, and finally made it Piney Hollow rd. Now the directions say to take the first dirt road you come to which should be on the left so i did that. It said to pull over at the first little outing so i parked and walked around and noticed i was in the middle of an open area the blue hole is in the dense woods so i got back in my car and drove a little bit farther up. I pulled over at the next little opening and walked the path next to that and it lead me to a dead end. I walked back and decided to just explore the rest on foot. so i headed up the dirt road a little further. I then saw another path and walked it until it lead me to another dead end. Then i thought let me just go back to the car and maybe go home and do a little bit more research on where it is but when i got to the dirt road i decided to walk up the road some more just to see what was there. I finally got to another little opening with 2 paths. i took the first one, dead end again. i then took the second path which had blue marks on the trees so i thought to myself this had to be it. i walked for about 5 minuets and indeed it was the path! after searching for about an hour and being drenched in sweat i finally found it i then took a couple of pictures and took some of the broken bridge and the nearby greater egg harbor river. The water was blue and unlike it says in the weird NJ books there was plenty of wildlife in the water, turtles and such. it then took me about a half and hour to walk back to my car. When i got there i noticed i was out for almost two hours. But then again sometimes i'd do anything just to get the perfect picture

Tombstone of the Lambert Castle

So like before, i went a while ago but i'm going to blog about it now.
So we drove up to Paterson after we were done exploring the Essex County Hospital Center (i'll blog about that in another post) Anyway, we drove up to the castle and i was pretty impressed, it looked pretty nice :) so we got out and started looking around for the Tombstone. We looked for a good 5 minuets and decided to go inside. we looked around the house/castle whatever you want to call it, for a while and on our way out we asked the people that worked there about the hidden tombstone they said that everyone asks about it but they have never seen it themselves. This lead me to think it wasn't there anymore. We went back outside and  decided to look around one more time. Just when i was about to give up i looked behind some type of electrical box and i found it! I wanted to go back in and tell the people that worked there where it was but i end up not doing that. Then we took a picture and headed off back on home.

Purgatory road/Purgatory house

So i went here a while ago, before i had this blog so i'm going to blog about it now.
So it's located in Southampton, NJ. We drove for about an hour and me and my grandpa finally arrived (my grandpa is no ordinary person he loves going to this kind of stuff with me and he doesn't slow me down he can keep up) anyway, i knew there was the abandoned house somewhere in the woods but at first i didn't see it. We drove up and down the road a couple of times (the people who live on the road must have been pretty annoyed) until my grandpa suddenly said "what's that in the woods?" and behold we found the purgatory house. so we parked in front of the path leading towards it. My grandpa stayed by the car and i went to go see the legendary Purgatory house. I didn't go inside because i never go inside an abandoned house alone who knows what could happen. so i took some picture of the exterior and went on back to the car. about a couple months later me and one of my friends Nicole decided to go on a little adventure so i suggested the Purgatory house since i really wanted to see what was inside. When i got home that night with my grandpa i looked up more things about the Purgatory house. everyone said it was haunted so i wanted to see if that was true also. So me and Nicole went into the house and saw it was falling apart. The floor looked like it was going to collapse any second but that didnt stop me. We explored the first level and then slowly went up the stairs to the second level. after exploring for a while and taking some pictures we decided to do a little daytime ghost hunting. We really didn't get anything until something happened that still creeps me out till this day. I heard really close to my ear the sound of someone exhaling. i have it on video and everything. it wasn't me or nicole and there was no wind and the road is pretty far from the house so it was weird. Then after we ate out at friendly's :)

Mt. Misery

so today i went to take a trip to the road called mt. misery. I have a few things to say about this road. one, there are no signs indicating that the road is indeed the road you are looking for. so, with that, i flew right past the road. When i turned around and got back to the road i was debating either to go right of left. To the right was a dirt road and to the left was a paved road so i decided to go down the paved road. Mt. Misery road is a HUGE road that stretches for a long while through the middle of the pine barrens. So i rode through  the road and i came to a camp, some type of christian camp. I didn't stop because there were some cars and i figured the camp was going on considering its the middle of summer so i kept on going. The road soon took me through Lebonon State Forest. I got all the way to the end where there were railroad tracks and alot of big dump trucks on the road intersecting with Mt. Misery. So i turned around and went all the way back to the other side of the road. This one wasn't paved so i was praying that my tire wouldn't become flat because i think i don't have a spare. anyway, i didn't pass anything interesting. I then got to a very well paved road that was still Mt. Misery. i drove all the way to the end and behold! a road sign that says Mt. Misery. I really wanted to take a picture of me under the sign for my album but there were so many cars wizzing by that it was impossible, i was by myself and i did have a tripod with me. it would have been easy if there wasn't so many cars so i grabbed my GPS, and put in the address for my boyfriends house cause he lives about 15 mins from Mt. Misery (which is located in Browns Mills btw) which is where i am now. I'm going to try to go there tomorrow with my boyfriend, after he gets back from school but i think he wont want to come. he isn't the adventurous type. So Mt. Misery photography will have to be saved for another day. :(

Atlantic City Cemetery Community

So this trip was nothing really big, neither was the site i was visiting. It was just in the books so i figured i go visit it. Its in the A.C. cemetery community located just minuets from my house. I went last week but never got around to blogging about it. Nothing really just a weird headstone for a grave. here is a picture

If you are familiar with the Weird NJ Books you would probably recognize this just a slight bit.

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.

Concrete ship/Bunker/Angel of the Sea

So, today me and my Grandfather left my house and headed towards Cape May, NJ to see the Concrete Ship, the Bunker and the famous bed and breakfast, Angel of the Sea. We got down to Cape May around 11 and our first stop was the Concrete ship. First off i just want to say it was really really freezing cold. We got out of the car and there were some people and I thought 'oh god, these people are going to see me talking in front of this camera and think what the hell are these people doing?' but after a while i didn't care because it was really none of their business. So we filmed at the Concrete ship, i talked about the history and such and we got back in the car and went to the next place, the Bunker. I felt really bad for my grandpa because the Bunker is sort of a walk from the parking lot but he made it. So proud of him lol. Anyway, we filmed at the Bunker and again i talked about the history and such. Then we went to take a picture of me in front of the Bunker (because i take a picture of me in front of the location for this photo album i'm working on) and my camera ran out of batteries so i was kind of pissed. But i figured we can just go back later when i switched out the batteries. Next we went to the next location, The Angel of the Sea. The Angel of the Sea is this like cute bed and breakfast that supposedly super haunted. So we got there, took some pictures and filmed me talking about the history once again. Then we went on their so called "tour". They offer tours everyday at 12:15pm and we got there just in time. We walked inside to this parlor where they told us to go back outside. The tour guide stood in front of the house for about 10 minuets talking about the history in full detail. Then we went back in the house and he was like yea this is the parlor and thats the end of the tour, I was like um what? Thats it? Good thing it was free. We got back in the car and got a bite to eat at this really good pizzeria. Then we went home. There was supposed to be one more place to go to but there was no time. We are going back on Thursday afternoon to film there, take a picture of me in front of the Bunker, and to re-film me in front of the Angel of the Sea bed and breakfast because in the video all you hear is wind. So i'm excited. More on Thursday!

Bunker YouTube video
Concrete Ship YouTube video

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