GHOST IN NJCU?
At Margaret Williams Theater there are areas of reported supernatural events. According to Weird NJ magazine the Margaret Williams Theater is haunted with hers truly, Margaret Williams.
It holds a full theater, a bathroom, and a music room. There old, English architecture fits well with the haunting of an old woman. The room 220 is the only area that is very warm, which is weird because the air is cool throughout the whole floor.
“We have heard people saying that they’ve seen ghost figures and have heard noises,” says Security Guard Eve Harrinauth.
OLD HIDDEN RAILROAD
Deep in the tall straw grass in Liberty State Park are large wooden posts with rotted nails. At first it seems to be nothing important, but according to history teacher Robert Donnelly train service used to exist there. Donnelly said he is certain that the remains of the train service still exist. He also stated the in the late 60s the passenger service ended.
SWASTIKAS ON STEGMAN HOUSES
Near Stegman Ave. and Kennedy Boulevard three homes straight down have swastikas all around them. One of the homeowners, Jeff Parrenas, said that the design was specifically made to promote German supremacy. He said many Germans lived in the area and that the three houses were built by German people. “Ironically, in the 1990’s Jews started living here,” said Parrenas.
A mezuzah, which is a case attached to the doorposts of houses inscribed with biblical passages, containing a scroll with passages of scripture written on it, was placed on one door as a sign of Jewish faith.
MINI CASTLE HIDDEN WITHIN LIBERTY STATE PARK
The miniature castle was found! After hours of searching for the castle, first reported in Weird NJ magazine, we found it towards a lake at Liberty State Park. Grass over 7 ft. tall was blocking the view ahead of us. Luckily we found a path that seemed to be like previous footsteps crushing the tall straw. The castle sits on a boulder and seemed like a part of it. It rose up to our shins. The small grey cold structure was very detailed in its design. You could clearly see each brick that made up the walls.
BOOTH SAVES LINCOLN
In 1863 at a railway station in Jersey City, which would be known now as Exchange place, Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, saved Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert from being hit by a train.
So it results in Lincoln’s son being saved by a man whose brother would kill his father two years later in 1865.
COLGATE CLOCK: WORLD'S LARGEST CLOCK
The surface of the clock is 1,963.5 square feet and 50 feet in diameter. The minute hand is 25 feet, 10 inches long; the hour hand is 20 feet long.
The timepiece can be adjusted and is maintained to stay within one minute of accurate time. It is powered by twenty-eight large-volt batteries.
Out of 30 randomly surveyed people, 25 people said that they did not know it was the world’s largest clock.
STATUE IN EXCHANGE PLACE
At Exchange Place there is a violent piece of work which is a remembrance of the Russian massacre of Polish prisoners.
The bronze solider, which has a rifle springing from his back, stands on top of a granite base. Katyn is a symbol of a death sentence passed on Poland.
On March 5, 1940 soviet agents shot 21,768 polish military officers, intellectuals and priests who had been taken prisoner during their invasion in Poland from the east in 1939, 17 days after Germans entered from the west. Krystyna Balcer, a 62 year old retiree said, “they betrayed us, they stuck a knife in our backs.”
“The massacre ‘was unimaginable cruelty, it was genocide.”
