| Author | : Barbara Solem-Stull |
| Publisher | : Plexus Publishing (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Automobile travel |
| ISBN | : 9780937548608 |
The Jersey Devil
| Author | : James F. McCloy |
| Publisher | : B B& A Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780912608112 |
In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
| Author | : Henry Charlton Beck |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780813510163 |
Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.
Haunted New Jersey
| Author | : Patricia A. Martinelli |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2020-06-11 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1493045733 |
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.
Weird N. J.
| Author | : Mark Moran |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2009-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781402766855 |
Explores haunted places, local legends, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in New Jersey.
The Pine Barrens
| Author | : John McPhee |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 1968-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0374233608 |
Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.
Batsto Village
| Author | : Barbara Solem |
| Publisher | : Plexus Publishing Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Batsto (N.J.) |
| ISBN | : 9781940091013 |
Founded in the 1760s, Batsto grew into a thriving industrial community through the Revolutionary War years and beyond.
The Legendary Pine Barrens
| Author | : Paul Evans Pedersen (Jr.) |
| Publisher | : Plexus Publishing (NJ) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : New Jersey |
| ISBN | : 9780937548769 |
The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions Version 2. 0
| Author | : Joseph Matheny |
| Publisher | : Wildcard Interactive |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0967489016 |
“…a bizarre Internet phenomenon: an “immersive” online experience—part mystery, part game, part who knows what—known as both the Incunabula Papers and Ong’s Hat. The Incunabula Papers/Ong’s Hat was, or is, a “many-threaded, open-ended interactive narrative” that ”weds an alternate history of chaos science and consciousness studies to conspiracy theories, parallel dimensions, and claims that computer-mediated environments can serve as magical tools…. the documents provoked a widespread “immersive legend-trip” in the late 1990s. Via Web forums, participants investigated the documents—manifestos—which spun up descriptions of brilliant but suppressed discoveries relating to paths that certain scientists had forged into alternate realities. Soon, those haunted dimensions existed in the minds and fantasies of Ong’s Hat’s many participants. That was evident as they responded to the original postings by uploading their own—all manner of reflections and artifacts: personal anecdotes, audio recordings, and videos—to augment what became “a really immersive world, and it was vast”.
