The New Jersey Haunted Trail

New Jersey packs its hauntings into a small state with old bones. Colonial taverns still pour drinks two centuries later, a psychiatric hospital sits under a county park now, and Pine Barrens back roads have carried strange stories since long before cars existed. North Jersey leans toward Revolutionary War history and abandoned institutions; the shore towns run more toward grand old hotels with a ghost attached to nearly every room. The featured loop keeps to the coast for a single long weekend, though the statewide list runs past a hundred and seventy stops for anyone willing to range inland.