Tonight we found this praying mantis stuck between the storm windows of my son’s room. He’s still in there, trying to get out, but we aren’t sure the best way to free him. My 7 year old boy was very upset. Not because he was practically bunking down with a praying mantis for the night, … Read more
In Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 18th Ave in Belmar at one time was the trail that native American men used to return from fishing in the ocean to where their "squaws" were camped at "Squankum" (near Allaire). At the approximate junction of 18th Ave and the present day Allaire Rd there was a large … 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
I lived in NJ most of my life, even though I was born in NY. When I went to Walter C. Black Middle School, I had a teacher who worked at the Cranbury Inn. She told us all that it was haunted by the ghost of a man who was killed there in the 1790’s. … Read more