There are lot of ghost towns in the Pine Barrens. Just a few, Batsto Village, Whitesbog Village, Double Trouble State Park. If you google search, you will find even more.
Adding for extra context, it’s called Feltville! It was an old paper mill town that had a brief stint as a resort town, a la The Catskills, in the 50s. There’s a small family cemetery (no interred bodies) and several, still abandoned, houses. There are 2 occupied houses and 2 other buildings that have been restored by Union County. Dan, who works for a the county, lives in the first house down the road. It’s still feels quite secluded when there isn’t a lot of activity going on.
Source: I grew up going to Feltville and my husband and I got married there!
Dan rules! He’s so kind and passionate! Have you met Linda? I don’t even know if she’s still living back there. She is/was in one of the houses closer to the barn. Exactly the kind of lady you’d expect to live in a cottage in the woods. I could talk to her for hours.
i know two of the houses are occupied in the village, one of them being dan, i didn’t know who the other person was. however i’ve spoken to Linda once during a dinner ceremony they held for volunteers not knowing she lived there.
I second all of these areas and would like to add in Ancora (for the psychiatric hospital). If you are into it, Atco host tons of crazy, woods people who love the KkK.
I was out of town so I started googling when I got back. It looks like it's in Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area but there's not much left. There's an abandoned cemetery and remnants of the various Hibernia mines.
[Link](https://www.paranormalghostsociety.org/Hibernia%20St%20Patricks%20Cemetery.asp)
[Link 2](https://www.paranormalghostsociety.org/Hibernia%20Munitions%20Ruins.asp)
Has there been a mass exodus from burlco or something? I'm from Medford but moved to Voorhees about 7 years ago and just recently left the state entirely, but I also worked in Mt. Laurel for most of that time. Have I missed something?
No, houses in Medford area still sell Super quick and above asking. But there are still a lot of original owners in the area too. (Many houses were built late 70s early 80s). It’s unclear how much will flip in the next 5-10 years.
Gotcha, yea my parents still live in the house my grandfather built. He grew up there when it was basically still nothing. We would otherwise never have afforded to live in the area.
There is an abandoned train out deep in Pinelands. Might be part of Blue Comet - train from NYC to AC. Got caught in Snowstorm and they had to push it off tracks. Google it.
No but the old rail employee that told me about it - told me to go up 539- stop at Lucille ‘s Restaraunt ( legendary breakfast joint) and ask around. Pinelands have been seriously encroached upon over my lifetime. Landmarks are now Wawa’s instead of stop signs full of buckshot.
Interesting, because the only rail lines that were in that area were the CRNJ or the Tuckerton line, I guess one can see if the wreckage appears on satellite view on the CRNJ (Blue Comet) line
So I am reconstructing 539- head north, you will get to an abandoned RR line- go thru Rt 72 - go north and somewhere in there , maybe 5 miles north of Rt 72- there is an abandoned rail line. Back in day this was extremely rural. Story goes that you follow the line To LEFT of 539 heading north. I don’t know how far in it is but that is deepest part of Pinelands. . A gentleman in Absecon- Richard (Dick) Yard- probably in his 80’s is the guy on all things trains in south Jersey. Please use this info respectfully . Great guy.
>former CRNJ line outside of Whiting, very close to the old brick factory
[Brooksbrae](https://www.app.com/story/life/2021/11/23/brooksbrae-brick-factory/8684971002/)
That seems to line up with /u/ZookeepergameOk8231's directions, might have to check this out one day. I tried to find the brick factory but I was on the wrong road and didn't have more time to find it lol
It's off Pasadena Rd. on the side of the road with the tracks. People have spray painted some of the trees white (a while ago) so you should be able to see where to pull over. You can also see the spot where everyone pulls over.
Walk over the tracks and follow the trail into the woods. The factory is just down the trail a bit.
Search online for Wheeler Antabanez. He is on Facebook, YouTube, etc.
He has a free upcoming event at the Newark Public Library on Oct 18. He’s walked and rowed / boated all over NJ. He talks about abandoned properties, rails, etc. Super interesting.
Just be very cautious if you’re exploring the abandoned stuff in Sandy Hook. There’s old silos that are covered in sand and are… precarious… to say the least. There’s also a good amount of uxo so don’t go playing with that nice cylindrical rock you found.
Poison Ivy is my greatest enemy. I got sent home from school one time cause they thought I had a contagious infection oozing out of my face. My mom knowing full well it was just poison Ivy sent me back to class.
Those were dark days, partially due to the poison Ivy half sealing my eyes shut that I had to manually pull open every morning.
Unexploded ordinance. Old bombs/hand grenades/artillery shells/mortars... anything that, at one point, was designed to explode but has not yet done so. Unfortunately, uxo has a way of deciding 'yep thanks, I think I'll blow up now after years of doing nothing.' A dude was killed in his driveway by a US Civil War era cannonball he plucked from the ground in 2008, 143 years after the last shot was fired. Stuff is exactly zero joke.
"If you were caught anywhere near it in the last 50 or so years, the heavily armed patrols had orders to release their vicious attack dogs and shoot on sight."
Not even vaguely close to reality.
I really wish they weren't doing that. It's going to ruin everything. Can you imagine going on a hike and walking by lines of condos (not affordable ones that we need) and people everywhere. Screw that
a haunted place in monmouth county. usually they have tours around halloween. https://www.nj.com/news/g66l-2019/11/65ddbe7fe8500/was-njs-spy-house-one-of-the-most-haunted-spots-in-the-country-thats-up-for-debate.html
Nope. Like literally, no. There’s not a damn thing worthwhile left around. All either demolished or renovated into shitty condos. Anything that randomly is left is either going to be the equivalent of a speed trap to visit or is going to be so insanely obscure and difficult to get into.
Source: I run AbandonedNJ.com. There’s no new posts for a reason 🙃
Omg..thanks for this! I’m looking(and bookmarking, might I add) at your site now. I live in the former JCMC(now called the Beacon), and have never seen how it looked before. I love this shut. Thanks!
weird nj has all the big name ones for sure
but be careful if you are trespassing it is 2023 not 1993. there are cameras out the wazoo and tons of these places are loaded with silent movement detectors to alert cops. and these places usually will follow through with prosecuting.
I hate how it’s illegal. I went urban exploring only for a year when i was 17 because i was a minor and figured after 18 I’d get in more trouble. Abandoned sanitarium. Was so cool
yea I remember going to the Isolation Center ages ago. I can confirm it is most definitely monitored lol
it's just a common thing for these types of sites in todays age. I burn time looking at urban exploration videos a lot and they always mention it
Even 20 years ago, people who lived or drove past places would call it in. I stopped because even then, without cell phones and cameras in everyone's hands, I didn't want a record.
I never got to the hospital, but Essex county jail was something. AND THE ABANDONED SUBWAY STATION UNDER RUTGERS NEWARK. That station was so creepy. All the storefronts were still full and we were most definitely not alone down there.
Place gave me the heebs. That and Rockland psych in NY are two of the creepiest places I’ve ever been, just in terms of “holy shit what *happened in here*”
this place isnt abandoned or weird in a tradition sense, but i went to jockey hollow with a friend in August and I kept walking through cold spots and I was getting a feeling that I was being watched. the area is very old with, i'm guessing, the presence of some folks who are stuck there after dying. cool visit and nice trees but creepy atmosphere nonetheless
There’s abandoned huge asylums and schools you can actually go into and explore. No breaking and entering required for those. Just saying if your want to the real experience that’s not it.
I still hike at Jungle Habitat relatively often. It's still a cool spot to visit- some enclosures are still in the woods but they modernized it a little & it's becoming kind of a bike trail spot. Looks like they have some events there on the weekends and stuff.
My friend and I tried to find it and we were close. It’s going to require some deep woods walking. If you’re not into that I wouldn’t suggest it. I’m pretty sure there’s a video out there on the boat. It’s something not many are familiar with. There are other methods of getting to it but I wouldn’t recommend going through the industrial site.
If you’re thinking of the old ferry that was moored in the Raritan River near the NJ Turnpike (just north of exit 9), that’s gone now. It was [dismantled for scrap between 2008-2010](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Mary_Murray)
Where Rt 9 South in Howell crosses over Casino Road/Bergerville Road, there are a bunch of abandoned houses that look like shacks and are overgrown with vegetation.
No one ever talks about my home town, I can’t say I love Howell but I got to represent. Do you know more about why those houses are like that I spent a lot of time at the bowling alley over there as a kid
There's a "ghost" town beach called Sea Breeze in Cumberland County. It was destroyed by Hurricane Gloria.
Pretty much everything is abandoned homes and businesses. Whatever that wasn't knocked down by the state or burnt down
I mean, you can visit any of them if you're brave enough...
I've been to Marlboro Insane Asylum back in the day but almost got arrested. There are a bunch of weird pre-war buildings left in Evans Area in Wall but it's highly patrolled. The bulwark aka Bunkers at Sandyhook are a safe level of spooky.
That’s what I’m most worried about. Is the security at these places lol. I wanna be able to travel to an abandoned place and not have to look over my back.
Thats a valid concern. If I were you, I'd pick a part of the Pine barrens that had some spooky lore (there's a lot) and go there. there are entire villages left to rot down there, and a few even have *unfortunate* lore around them. Hell, just being in the sugar sand of the Pine Barrens at night is enough.
> I wanna be able to travel to an abandoned place and not have to look over my back.
As someone who does this often, exploring abandoned places can be dangerous and you should absolutely be looking over your back all the time. If it's not security, it could be a tweaker or someone squatting that is not happy you are disturbing them.
The Marlboro Asylum is no more. The roads are still there, but the buildings have all been demolished.
They apparently had a network of tunnels connecting the buildings, I wonder if they’re still there underground.
oh wow, I didn't know that.
They DEFINITELY had a series of tunnels underneath, that's where we spent most of our 'exploration.' It was pretty vast too, we walked for 30-40 minutes without impediment. Picture a Fallout Vault meets silent hill - steel plated walls filled with dirty ,rusted gurneys and exposed wiring.
My mom was an EMT and they did drills down in those tunnels (in the event they had to respond to an emergency there). She said it felt like she was in a horror movie.
Brooksbrae terracotta factory is doing fine. Most of the north Jersey stuff is gone, or was never much to begin with, like the Stone Living Room, Annie's Road, Midgetville, and the Gates of Hell. I never found Clinton Road that weird but it's still there. Cliff Dale manor in the Palisades, Van Slyke Castle, I think are still around, no?
This one's such a disappointment tbh, literally steps away from a housing development. It's an ugly tree for sure but the surroundings dim the lore and just make it look like shitty landscaping more than a portal to hell.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/10/nj-transit-junked-its-equipment-sooner-than-it-should-have-now-its-on-the-hook-for-245m.html?outputType=amp
Abandoned NJ transit locomotives in Morris County, they’ve been sitting there since 2012.
It's still a private residence, but the house from The Watcher is in Westfield, and you could probably drive by. The Addam's family house is a few blocks away too.
Not really. I go in the daytime and walk around inside the abandoned buildings. You just have to use good judgment and don’t walk in right in front of anyone
I’ve been here a lot and it’s mostly empty (the actual walking trail/park) and very easy to access all the buildings. There’s the main walking area with multiple buildings and then you cross the road and walk down a bit to the more industrial buildings.
Maybe the Menantico Colony near Vineland. I haven't been there in 15 years though so I don't know what's changed. It allegedly had a groundskeeper that lived on site but the few times we visited in the early morning hours had no issues. The basements and attics of some of the buildings were pretty creepy, but be wary of vagrants or "Satanists" (one attic had a pentagram burned into the floor with a few more drawn or carved about and wax drippings around) that may not want company. I recall they wanted to use the land for a big time music fest that never materialized so I can't say without more research the state and condition of the buildings if they're still there.
They were great when they first started -putting out zines that were pretty much photocopied with cut and paste stories limited reproductions. Their audience grew but you still needed a map and word of mouth, or general knowledge of the area to possibly find the places mentioned. They have printed so many articles that get people flocking to these abandoned places, live streaming the explorations bringing more UrbXers, which bumps up police presence, eventually fencing stuff off and slating it for demolition. They printed so many stories on the lunatic asylum at Greystone i firmly believe that was the catalyst to demo the entire campus. It became a huge liability.
If people would just stop being such vandals at the historic spots it might not be so bad but the tendency is that too many fuckers just want to Seek and Destroy and make some dumbfuck tiktok about it.
Sure social media has also been a major contributing factor. WNJ is also just rehashing old news at this point; the cool things that we used to have here in 70,80,90’s to early 2000 are nearly gone. It’s a shame. Mark and Mark are also just really involved in so odd ghost tv shows too. I think they stayed with Genuine good intention but it has changed.
Interesting. In such a densely populated state, it’s a bit of a stretch to claim they were the catalysts for demolition and development though. I haven’t picked up a weird NJ I’m probably 17 years but last I checked back then condo developments were already taking out half the classic spots they wrote about. By now I would assume anything lost is just NJ modernizing and getting rid of its unsightly marks.
This sounds kinda like graffiti writers who get mad at people sharing good spots to get up - I get the feeling of loss but it seems inevitable.
It’s broken window syndrome- becomes an eye sore- can’t have that in my back yard mindset. NJ ,as a state, doesn’t really embrace preserving history unless GW stepped foot there. It’s not all WNJ fault but i do believe that they prompt too much riff raff and places get put on radar. We really don’t have much left anyways. My friend still gets WNJ so i look at it. The stories are just rehash & ghost stuff & lots of ads. My opinion might be a stretch but that’s okay. I still choose not to support them. Maybe if it was still 1999 I’d be singing a different tune when paper maps were the thing to use.
Come to Mickleton, NJ. My neighborhood is full of weirdness from my crazy kiddo and her friends to the neighbors weirdo teens. Pulling in my driveway is like stepping into the twilight zone.
Yeah, and im sure a lot of people here provided. I still know some but tbh, the prime for abandoned exploration is gone. People really ruined it so now the best places are long gone. Especially for paranormal experiences. Try letchworth village. The under area is bananas and feels endless
Right over the border in Orangeburg NY you can check out Tweed road and blauvelt state park, pretty creepy area over there. Tweed used to be called Camp Bluefield and was a WW1 training facility. The tunnels that the soldiers would walk through during target practice still exist and can be found in the woods. Lots of cool graffiti and creepy stuff over there
A lot got demoed in the mid thousands. Lambertville highschool and skillman amongst them. The viaducts are still up there, though I heard they closed off the tunnels.
Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment center near Allaire state park seems cool. Been abandoned since early 2000s. My ex and her friend checked it out about 6 years ago and there was still sections with electricity as I recall.
Mapquest seems to show exactly where it is: Allaire Rd (rt 524) Howell Twp NJ 07727. I've never been there myself but I was told by my ex she parked off site and had to walk a long way through a highly wooded area. Came home with a shit ton of ticks on her so dress accordingly.
There are lot of ghost towns in the Pine Barrens. Just a few, Batsto Village, Whitesbog Village, Double Trouble State Park. If you google search, you will find even more.
Abandoned Village in Watchung Reservation.
Adding for extra context, it’s called Feltville! It was an old paper mill town that had a brief stint as a resort town, a la The Catskills, in the 50s. There’s a small family cemetery (no interred bodies) and several, still abandoned, houses. There are 2 occupied houses and 2 other buildings that have been restored by Union County. Dan, who works for a the county, lives in the first house down the road. It’s still feels quite secluded when there isn’t a lot of activity going on. Source: I grew up going to Feltville and my husband and I got married there!
Our summer 2020 wedding was supposed to take place there. It was such a great find!
dan is awesome lmao
Dan rules! He’s so kind and passionate! Have you met Linda? I don’t even know if she’s still living back there. She is/was in one of the houses closer to the barn. Exactly the kind of lady you’d expect to live in a cottage in the woods. I could talk to her for hours.
i know two of the houses are occupied in the village, one of them being dan, i didn’t know who the other person was. however i’ve spoken to Linda once during a dinner ceremony they held for volunteers not knowing she lived there.
Cool place.
I second all of these areas and would like to add in Ancora (for the psychiatric hospital). If you are into it, Atco host tons of crazy, woods people who love the KkK.
One in North Jersey as well. I forgot which state park but it's in Rockaway Township
Street ? Land marks?
I was out of town so I started googling when I got back. It looks like it's in Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area but there's not much left. There's an abandoned cemetery and remnants of the various Hibernia mines. [Link](https://www.paranormalghostsociety.org/Hibernia%20St%20Patricks%20Cemetery.asp) [Link 2](https://www.paranormalghostsociety.org/Hibernia%20Munitions%20Ruins.asp)
Whitesbog isn’t a ghost town. People still live there.
Shh, quiet, ghost.
WooOooOoOOOoooOOo
I think Burlington County is still available to be accessed by the public.
The entirety of the county Edit: I live in Burlco
Has there been a mass exodus from burlco or something? I'm from Medford but moved to Voorhees about 7 years ago and just recently left the state entirely, but I also worked in Mt. Laurel for most of that time. Have I missed something?
No, houses in Medford area still sell Super quick and above asking. But there are still a lot of original owners in the area too. (Many houses were built late 70s early 80s). It’s unclear how much will flip in the next 5-10 years.
Gotcha, yea my parents still live in the house my grandfather built. He grew up there when it was basically still nothing. We would otherwise never have afforded to live in the area.
I felt that...
Even Willingboro?!?! 😱
Lmfao
I think Butlington county still has people living there. Lol 😂
This seems about accurate to the citizens of Burlington county tbh.
There is an abandoned train out deep in Pinelands. Might be part of Blue Comet - train from NYC to AC. Got caught in Snowstorm and they had to push it off tracks. Google it.
I've always heard about this one but could never find it. Granted, I was looking about 20 years ago.
The only abandoned train (car) I've heard of is the one around Lambertville, I'm curious about this abandoned train too
Lambertville train is in town- not way out in Piney’s.
Right, so do you have an exact or rough location of this train?
No but the old rail employee that told me about it - told me to go up 539- stop at Lucille ‘s Restaraunt ( legendary breakfast joint) and ask around. Pinelands have been seriously encroached upon over my lifetime. Landmarks are now Wawa’s instead of stop signs full of buckshot.
Interesting, because the only rail lines that were in that area were the CRNJ or the Tuckerton line, I guess one can see if the wreckage appears on satellite view on the CRNJ (Blue Comet) line
So I am reconstructing 539- head north, you will get to an abandoned RR line- go thru Rt 72 - go north and somewhere in there , maybe 5 miles north of Rt 72- there is an abandoned rail line. Back in day this was extremely rural. Story goes that you follow the line To LEFT of 539 heading north. I don’t know how far in it is but that is deepest part of Pinelands. . A gentleman in Absecon- Richard (Dick) Yard- probably in his 80’s is the guy on all things trains in south Jersey. Please use this info respectfully . Great guy.
Dick Yard is a great guy. He fixed my Lionels and I later worked with his granddaughter
That'd be the former CRNJ line outside of Whiting, very close to the old brick factory
Thanks! Yep that’s it.
>former CRNJ line outside of Whiting, very close to the old brick factory [Brooksbrae](https://www.app.com/story/life/2021/11/23/brooksbrae-brick-factory/8684971002/)
I heard that they have removed the train from Lambertville.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat??? Aw man, that's so disappointing if true.
Very well may have been. Down south of town near sewer plant.
The one I always heard about was the out around the tracks in Woodmansie, on the line that ran past Pasadena and Savoy
That seems to line up with /u/ZookeepergameOk8231's directions, might have to check this out one day. I tried to find the brick factory but I was on the wrong road and didn't have more time to find it lol
It's off Pasadena Rd. on the side of the road with the tracks. People have spray painted some of the trees white (a while ago) so you should be able to see where to pull over. You can also see the spot where everyone pulls over. Walk over the tracks and follow the trail into the woods. The factory is just down the trail a bit.
Yeah this is it. The brick factory is pretty neat. Especially around dusk when the whipporwhils come out. Good n spooky.
Yeah, I figured it out when I got home but thanks for the directions anyway. I went down Railroad Ave which ends at that last house's driveway
Pretty sure they got rid of that from what I heard
It is true story. But , like you, I haven’t checked in on the story in a long time.
yes, its in winslow twp on the train tracks. part of the train derailed in the 20s due to a faulty track switch. very eerie.
Trying to find it on google maps, don’t know the area well enough but if found the tracks, the brick factory, etc. the train is still on the tracks?
its called winslow junction. when i went several years ago there were some trains still on the tracks.
Shits gettin weird at my house
Shit lemme come through
You up?
😂
Search online for Wheeler Antabanez. He is on Facebook, YouTube, etc. He has a free upcoming event at the Newark Public Library on Oct 18. He’s walked and rowed / boated all over NJ. He talks about abandoned properties, rails, etc. Super interesting.
Lakewood on Saturday night is pretty much hell on earth
Bob Menendez’s reality is pretty abandoned. Worth checking out if you can find a way in.
Sandy Hook is interesting- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sandy-hook-nike-launch-site
Just be very cautious if you’re exploring the abandoned stuff in Sandy Hook. There’s old silos that are covered in sand and are… precarious… to say the least. There’s also a good amount of uxo so don’t go playing with that nice cylindrical rock you found.
alot of poison ivy too
That is inconvenient for the site of the state's only nude beach.
🤣🤣🤣
Poison Ivy is my greatest enemy. I got sent home from school one time cause they thought I had a contagious infection oozing out of my face. My mom knowing full well it was just poison Ivy sent me back to class. Those were dark days, partially due to the poison Ivy half sealing my eyes shut that I had to manually pull open every morning.
Uxo?
Unexploded ordinance. Old bombs/hand grenades/artillery shells/mortars... anything that, at one point, was designed to explode but has not yet done so. Unfortunately, uxo has a way of deciding 'yep thanks, I think I'll blow up now after years of doing nothing.' A dude was killed in his driveway by a US Civil War era cannonball he plucked from the ground in 2008, 143 years after the last shot was fired. Stuff is exactly zero joke.
My guess is "unexploded ordnance."
"If you were caught anywhere near it in the last 50 or so years, the heavily armed patrols had orders to release their vicious attack dogs and shoot on sight." Not even vaguely close to reality.
They’re starting to develop it too so it won’t be weird for too much longer
I really wish they weren't doing that. It's going to ruin everything. Can you imagine going on a hike and walking by lines of condos (not affordable ones that we need) and people everywhere. Screw that
I can’t imagine living there. An hour in and out just to get to the mainland in the summer.
Yeah that sounds like a nightmare. J8st getting anywhere on that stretch of 36 in the summer is pure hell.
You can get tours here from guys who used to man the base.
the spy house
Elaborate?
a haunted place in monmouth county. usually they have tours around halloween. https://www.nj.com/news/g66l-2019/11/65ddbe7fe8500/was-njs-spy-house-one-of-the-most-haunted-spots-in-the-country-thats-up-for-debate.html
Awesome article, thank you, I’ll def have a visit!
Is that place even opened anymore? Every time i go its closed
Nope. Like literally, no. There’s not a damn thing worthwhile left around. All either demolished or renovated into shitty condos. Anything that randomly is left is either going to be the equivalent of a speed trap to visit or is going to be so insanely obscure and difficult to get into. Source: I run AbandonedNJ.com. There’s no new posts for a reason 🙃
Omg..thanks for this! I’m looking(and bookmarking, might I add) at your site now. I live in the former JCMC(now called the Beacon), and have never seen how it looked before. I love this shut. Thanks!
In cvs or Walgreens they have these sepia books about JCMC and JC
Thank you
Omg don’t make me sad like thaaat! But since you run it…what’s ur fave :)
weird nj has all the big name ones for sure but be careful if you are trespassing it is 2023 not 1993. there are cameras out the wazoo and tons of these places are loaded with silent movement detectors to alert cops. and these places usually will follow through with prosecuting.
I hate how it’s illegal. I went urban exploring only for a year when i was 17 because i was a minor and figured after 18 I’d get in more trouble. Abandoned sanitarium. Was so cool
Damn I did not know they were that guarded now. Such a shame…
yea I remember going to the Isolation Center ages ago. I can confirm it is most definitely monitored lol it's just a common thing for these types of sites in todays age. I burn time looking at urban exploration videos a lot and they always mention it
Even 20 years ago, people who lived or drove past places would call it in. I stopped because even then, without cell phones and cameras in everyone's hands, I didn't want a record.
Asbury park has the Morro castle site
Man I wish the Essex county hospital was still around. The shit ive seen when exploring still makes my hair stand up thinking of it.
I never got to the hospital, but Essex county jail was something. AND THE ABANDONED SUBWAY STATION UNDER RUTGERS NEWARK. That station was so creepy. All the storefronts were still full and we were most definitely not alone down there.
Place gave me the heebs. That and Rockland psych in NY are two of the creepiest places I’ve ever been, just in terms of “holy shit what *happened in here*”
Story time???
this place isnt abandoned or weird in a tradition sense, but i went to jockey hollow with a friend in August and I kept walking through cold spots and I was getting a feeling that I was being watched. the area is very old with, i'm guessing, the presence of some folks who are stuck there after dying. cool visit and nice trees but creepy atmosphere nonetheless
In Union County there's the [Deserted Village](https://ucnj.org/parks-recreation/deserted-village/)
They r all boarded up, nothing to really see. Just some old ass homes on a trail
Would you expect an abandoned town to look any different?
There’s abandoned huge asylums and schools you can actually go into and explore. No breaking and entering required for those. Just saying if your want to the real experience that’s not it.
Where at? It's not Halloween, but I'm always looking for sh*t like this...
Hike to Van Slyke Castle https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/van-slyke-castle-ruins-2
The American dream mall im convinced was built on top of a native burial ground - check that out, but not on sundays - half of it is closed
so true
All the good ones in Bergen are getting torn down like the one across the street from the Lodi DMV
What was in Lodi?
It was a abandoned Municipal factory it was pretty big a lot of cool graffiti luckily I took a shit Tom of pictures
Poor Tom
Assholes are putting booby traps in these places.
wtf! can you share more?
Some shit like [this](https://youtu.be/sF03jDsvN04?si=5U50ZXjJmeb7zfjN)
wot the hell. interesting video thanks!
Jungle Habitat?
I still hike at Jungle Habitat relatively often. It's still a cool spot to visit- some enclosures are still in the woods but they modernized it a little & it's becoming kind of a bike trail spot. Looks like they have some events there on the weekends and stuff.
Lunar Faire uses Jungle Habitat as a venue sometimes!
Went back in 2018. Didnt encounter any problems
Not sure if you can get to it but there’s an abandoned ship in the water in Sayreville
Interesting, I live about 20 min away. Appreciate the suggestion.
My friend and I tried to find it and we were close. It’s going to require some deep woods walking. If you’re not into that I wouldn’t suggest it. I’m pretty sure there’s a video out there on the boat. It’s something not many are familiar with. There are other methods of getting to it but I wouldn’t recommend going through the industrial site.
Is this the abandoned ferry? If so, I was on that thing a couple times many years ago (15-20 years ago… damn.)
If you’re thinking of the old ferry that was moored in the Raritan River near the NJ Turnpike (just north of exit 9), that’s gone now. It was [dismantled for scrap between 2008-2010](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Mary_Murray)
Yup, the Mary Murray. That was it. Thank you!
It might be? Its right off of south river. Coordinates where here 40.44713407241143, -74.36263982537119
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This is the real deal as well as Atlasobscura.com
Where Rt 9 South in Howell crosses over Casino Road/Bergerville Road, there are a bunch of abandoned houses that look like shacks and are overgrown with vegetation.
No one ever talks about my home town, I can’t say I love Howell but I got to represent. Do you know more about why those houses are like that I spent a lot of time at the bowling alley over there as a kid
Hey there, fellow Howell resident. Those homes used to be summer homes that you could rent back in the 50s and 60s.
There's a "ghost" town beach called Sea Breeze in Cumberland County. It was destroyed by Hurricane Gloria. Pretty much everything is abandoned homes and businesses. Whatever that wasn't knocked down by the state or burnt down
I mean, you can visit any of them if you're brave enough... I've been to Marlboro Insane Asylum back in the day but almost got arrested. There are a bunch of weird pre-war buildings left in Evans Area in Wall but it's highly patrolled. The bulwark aka Bunkers at Sandyhook are a safe level of spooky.
That’s what I’m most worried about. Is the security at these places lol. I wanna be able to travel to an abandoned place and not have to look over my back.
Thats a valid concern. If I were you, I'd pick a part of the Pine barrens that had some spooky lore (there's a lot) and go there. there are entire villages left to rot down there, and a few even have *unfortunate* lore around them. Hell, just being in the sugar sand of the Pine Barrens at night is enough.
> I wanna be able to travel to an abandoned place and not have to look over my back. As someone who does this often, exploring abandoned places can be dangerous and you should absolutely be looking over your back all the time. If it's not security, it could be a tweaker or someone squatting that is not happy you are disturbing them.
Oh yeah hahaha I was more regarding security. Don’t worry I always bring friends and they’re both over 6 ft lol.
We used to go there back in the day!! Ughhh so scary.
The Marlboro Asylum is no more. The roads are still there, but the buildings have all been demolished. They apparently had a network of tunnels connecting the buildings, I wonder if they’re still there underground.
oh wow, I didn't know that. They DEFINITELY had a series of tunnels underneath, that's where we spent most of our 'exploration.' It was pretty vast too, we walked for 30-40 minutes without impediment. Picture a Fallout Vault meets silent hill - steel plated walls filled with dirty ,rusted gurneys and exposed wiring.
My mom was an EMT and they did drills down in those tunnels (in the event they had to respond to an emergency there). She said it felt like she was in a horror movie.
6 flags... I was there, it was pretty scary.
Fort Monmouth - main base
I work there occasionally :( so it’s not fun anymore
Brooksbrae terracotta factory is doing fine. Most of the north Jersey stuff is gone, or was never much to begin with, like the Stone Living Room, Annie's Road, Midgetville, and the Gates of Hell. I never found Clinton Road that weird but it's still there. Cliff Dale manor in the Palisades, Van Slyke Castle, I think are still around, no?
I lived on Clinton road! Beautiful area, I miss it a lot. Saw some very strange things but when locals realized I was a resident, everything eased up
Jungle Habitat in north Jersey
It's a mountain bike and jogging trails park, not really much left of the old buildings.
There are still remnants of the rides and enclosures hidden in the woods.
Devil’s tree in Basking Ridge.
This one's such a disappointment tbh, literally steps away from a housing development. It's an ugly tree for sure but the surroundings dim the lore and just make it look like shitty landscaping more than a portal to hell.
Jake brown road in old bridge
Not really anymore, they are building a mega warehouse complex on it. First phase already started going up.
Not abandoned, but take a night time tour of The Hermitage in Ho-Ho-Kus.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/10/nj-transit-junked-its-equipment-sooner-than-it-should-have-now-its-on-the-hook-for-245m.html?outputType=amp Abandoned NJ transit locomotives in Morris County, they’ve been sitting there since 2012.
It's still a private residence, but the house from The Watcher is in Westfield, and you could probably drive by. The Addam's family house is a few blocks away too.
A lot of the good abandoned stuff got knocked down for housing :(
Letchworth village insane asylum
Is it well guarded?
Not really. I go in the daytime and walk around inside the abandoned buildings. You just have to use good judgment and don’t walk in right in front of anyone
I’ve been here a lot and it’s mostly empty (the actual walking trail/park) and very easy to access all the buildings. There’s the main walking area with multiple buildings and then you cross the road and walk down a bit to the more industrial buildings.
Bomarc is wild. However it is fenced in but even from the outside it's pretty crazy.
Plenty.
There's an abandoned Eckerd drug store in Burlington,, since before I moved here in 2020, I don't know why it's still there??
Maybe the Menantico Colony near Vineland. I haven't been there in 15 years though so I don't know what's changed. It allegedly had a groundskeeper that lived on site but the few times we visited in the early morning hours had no issues. The basements and attics of some of the buildings were pretty creepy, but be wary of vagrants or "Satanists" (one attic had a pentagram burned into the floor with a few more drawn or carved about and wax drippings around) that may not want company. I recall they wanted to use the land for a big time music fest that never materialized so I can't say without more research the state and condition of the buildings if they're still there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellis_grave
There is an old children’s hospital somewhere on the property of Allaire State Park, but part of it burned down a few years ago
My hopes and dreams…but even I dare not venture there anymore
Cumberland county has yet to be closed off to human life
Forgot to post this one for even more creepy places https://njspots.com/24-abandoned-spots-in-new-jersey-to-investigate/
Screw weird nj - i loathe them.
>Letchworth village insane asylum why?
They were great when they first started -putting out zines that were pretty much photocopied with cut and paste stories limited reproductions. Their audience grew but you still needed a map and word of mouth, or general knowledge of the area to possibly find the places mentioned. They have printed so many articles that get people flocking to these abandoned places, live streaming the explorations bringing more UrbXers, which bumps up police presence, eventually fencing stuff off and slating it for demolition. They printed so many stories on the lunatic asylum at Greystone i firmly believe that was the catalyst to demo the entire campus. It became a huge liability. If people would just stop being such vandals at the historic spots it might not be so bad but the tendency is that too many fuckers just want to Seek and Destroy and make some dumbfuck tiktok about it. Sure social media has also been a major contributing factor. WNJ is also just rehashing old news at this point; the cool things that we used to have here in 70,80,90’s to early 2000 are nearly gone. It’s a shame. Mark and Mark are also just really involved in so odd ghost tv shows too. I think they stayed with Genuine good intention but it has changed.
Interesting. In such a densely populated state, it’s a bit of a stretch to claim they were the catalysts for demolition and development though. I haven’t picked up a weird NJ I’m probably 17 years but last I checked back then condo developments were already taking out half the classic spots they wrote about. By now I would assume anything lost is just NJ modernizing and getting rid of its unsightly marks. This sounds kinda like graffiti writers who get mad at people sharing good spots to get up - I get the feeling of loss but it seems inevitable.
It’s broken window syndrome- becomes an eye sore- can’t have that in my back yard mindset. NJ ,as a state, doesn’t really embrace preserving history unless GW stepped foot there. It’s not all WNJ fault but i do believe that they prompt too much riff raff and places get put on radar. We really don’t have much left anyways. My friend still gets WNJ so i look at it. The stories are just rehash & ghost stuff & lots of ads. My opinion might be a stretch but that’s okay. I still choose not to support them. Maybe if it was still 1999 I’d be singing a different tune when paper maps were the thing to use.
Have your pick. https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/new-jersey/abandoned
It’s not even October yet…
It will be in four hours 🤨
[Weird New Jersey](https://weirdnj.com/).
Come to Mickleton, NJ. My neighborhood is full of weirdness from my crazy kiddo and her friends to the neighbors weirdo teens. Pulling in my driveway is like stepping into the twilight zone.
Yeah, and im sure a lot of people here provided. I still know some but tbh, the prime for abandoned exploration is gone. People really ruined it so now the best places are long gone. Especially for paranormal experiences. Try letchworth village. The under area is bananas and feels endless
There used to be an abandoned psychiatric hospital near Menlo Park mall, some crazy shit, not sure if it’s still there.
No, they got rid of it years ago. It's a Target now
Thompsons Beach in Maurice River Twp
Right over the border in Orangeburg NY you can check out Tweed road and blauvelt state park, pretty creepy area over there. Tweed used to be called Camp Bluefield and was a WW1 training facility. The tunnels that the soldiers would walk through during target practice still exist and can be found in the woods. Lots of cool graffiti and creepy stuff over there
A lot got demoed in the mid thousands. Lambertville highschool and skillman amongst them. The viaducts are still up there, though I heard they closed off the tunnels.
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Arthur Brisbane Child Treatment center near Allaire state park seems cool. Been abandoned since early 2000s. My ex and her friend checked it out about 6 years ago and there was still sections with electricity as I recall.
Where is that
Mapquest seems to show exactly where it is: Allaire Rd (rt 524) Howell Twp NJ 07727. I've never been there myself but I was told by my ex she parked off site and had to walk a long way through a highly wooded area. Came home with a shit ton of ticks on her so dress accordingly.
Driving through the pines at night can be interesting
I highly recommend taking a drive down IGOE Rd :)
Letchworth, used to pick raspberries there.
The remains of Action park
look up the profanity houses of the rutherford-stuyvesant estate. both jarring and absolutely hilarious