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 :)