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Oct 24, 2024 · October 31, 2024. In the heart of New Jersey lies a landscape as mysterious as the legend that haunts it—the Pine Barrens. Stretching over a million acres, this unique region is the perfect backdrop for exploring the legend of the Jersey Devil. Its dense forests, sandy trails, and tea-colored rivers stretch endlessly beneath towering pines ...
Oct 31, 2019 · We went deep inside the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where entire towns have been abandoned, and locals shared some of the spookiest legends from the area.
- Henry Blodget
Oct 31, 2019 · We went deep inside the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where entire towns have been abandoned, and locals shared some of the spookiest legends from the area.
- Sandy Hingston
- The 1.1-million-acre Pinelands Natural Reserve stretches south and west from northern Ocean County and makes up 22 percent of New Jersey’s total land mass.
- European settlers found the sandy, acidic soil unsuited to farming and left the land largely untouched, but beneath the pines lies a natural reservoir of bacterially sterile, chemically pure H2o that the U.S. Geological Survey has compared to “uncontaminated rain-water or melted glacial ice.”
- Early “Pineys,” as Barrens residents call themselves, included Quakers who’d been expelled from their meetings for fighting in the Revolution; outlaws and smugglers; and Tory loyalists known as the Refugees who, despite their politics, rode in packs and killed and robbed indiscriminately.
- The Barrens became home to several industries in the course of their history, including charcoal-making, glass-making (the first Mason jar was made here), woodcutting and cabinetry.
Oct 29, 2019 · Sean: A classic spot nestled along the water next to a series of nearly dilapidated sea shacks, the Oyster Creek Inn oozes down-home charm and is the perfect haven to trade war stories of...
Sep 5, 2021 · The Pine Barrens of New Jersey has a long and sordid history. It once belonged to the Indigenous people of the Lenni Lenape and was colonized by the Dutch and the Swedes, who claimed the cedar and oak trees as their own for shipbuilding.
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However, the Black Dog of the Pine Barrens is often considered a harmless spirit. According to folklore, pirates on Absecon Island attacked a ship and killed its crew. Among those killed were the cabin boy and his black dog.
