Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State - Paperback

by Patricia A. Martinelli (Author), Charles A. Stansfield (Author)

Phantom pirates, water monsters, and mythical snakes figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Garden State. From this state's bucolic, rolling farmland to its heavily populated shore come a variety of stories and legends, including a murderer whose body parts were used for medical (and other) experiments, the "White Pilgrim" who died of the disease he believed he could never get, and an Indian chief who used a swastika to protect a group of defenseless schoolgirls.

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Reading line: Eerie tales and spine-tingling stories from the Garden State Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder...let your imagination run wild as you read about New Jersey's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of the father-and-son ghosts of Aaron Burr, or Moll Degraw, the witch that haunts Newark, but perhaps you haven't heard about: -a murderer whose body parts were used for medical (and other) experiments; -the "White Pilgrim" who died of the disease he believed he could never get; -an Indian chief who used a swastika to protect a group of defenseless schoolgirls; and -the bottomless "Blue Hole," a pool of cold, clear water near the town of Winslow that defies all efforts to calculate its depths. Charles A. Stansfield, Jr. taught Geography at Rowan University for forty-one years and published fifteen geography textbooks. He is the author of several other Haunted Series books and lives in Pittman, New Jersey. Patricia A. Martinelli is the administrator of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society and author of eleven books, including New Jersey Ghost Towns, and coauthor with Charles A. Stansfield of The Big Book of New Jersey Ghost Stories. She lives in Minotola, New Jersey.

Author Biography

Patricia A. Martinelli lives in southern New Jersey and is the administrator of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. Charles A. Stansfield Jr. lives in Pitman, New Jersey, and was professor of geography at Rowan University for 41 years. He is the author of 11 books on the paranormal.