Abandoned slaughterhouse holds legend of old farmer The piggery was once owned by a farmer named “Mr. Allen.” The state of New Jersey seized the man’s property through the process of eminent domain and began using it to supply foodstuffs for Marlboro State Psychiatric Hospital in Marlboro, NJ. Farmer Allen went mad because he lost … Read more
Toward the end of the 1940s, Soviet researchers sealed five prison inmates in an airtight chamber and dosed them with an experimental stimulant gas to test the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation. Their behavior was observed via two-way mirrors and their conversations monitored electronically. They were promised their freedom if they could go entirely without … Read more
At the park of Whispering Pines, there is a commonly known tale of The Devil Tree. Supposedly, years ago, two girls were raped and hung at this tree. The murder was your average man, or so many thought. It was disturbingly rumored that after their deaths he had gone back to the girls’ corpses and … Read more
When we were young, we used to get away from school on our lunch breaks and head to a small place named Tadiport. It was just on the outskirts of Torrington and a really quite place. There, me and my buddies would go into the shut down dairy factory, formerly the Torrington Creamery and Dairy … Read more
About five years ago I lived downtown in a major city in the US. I’ve always been a night person, so I would often find myself bored after my roommate, who was decidedly not a night person, went to sleep. To pass the time, I used to go for long walks and spend the time … Read more
[su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”2/3″ center=”no” class=””] The slender man is believed to be a man dressed in a black business suit, like the ones worn in men in black, and is about 6 feet tall. The slender man was a man who was beat with a log, stabbed with a 2 foot … Read more
Jason and Alesha were driving from their home in NJ to visit his parents in South Carolina. It was a long trip, but one they had taken many times before, so they were familiar with the route from start to finish. They had to wait to start driving until after work that evening and were … Read more
My dad loved telling me urban legends about various places in New Jersey. One that I especially liked was the one about the Hoboken Monkey Man. As legend goes, in the early 1980’s there supposedly was a Monkeylike beast roaming the streets of Hoboken and terrorizing children. The police department received so many panicked phone … Read more
Everyone knows about the large, beautiful house that sets right on the shore on Ocean Ave. in Amityville, New York. Was it real or a hoax? Most people seem to think that it was just a hoax, but most famous paranormal investigators still maintain the house is haunted by an evil presence. In November 1974, … Read more
There was an old lady who lived on her own in a very foggy part of Dart moor. She had lived alone for fifteen years, ever since her husband had died in a mysterious car accident. However, the car accident is not my present purpose on which to dwell. You see, this old lady had … Read more