HauntedPlaces.org collects lighthouse reports involving phantom tobacco smoke, laughter, tower footsteps and a door that opens or shuts without a visible visitor. Coins, especially dimes, supposedly appear in unexpected places. Its wider folklore includes a keeper's claimed Jersey Devil sighting at the tower in 1905.
Supernatural sightings and unexplained coins are reported stories. Historical shipwreck-casualty figures are not repeated without separate verification.
HauntedPlaces.org identifies Hal Allaire as the mischievous presence associated with the Big House, moving objects and interfering with candles around costumed interpreters. A second spirit, called Oscar Smith, is linked with the Manager's House, where children's blocks supposedly rearrange into names.
Lower Township / Cape May Point area, New Jersey · Other
HauntedPlaces.org reports a ghostly military crew at Battery 223. Figures understood as soldiers have allegedly been seen in the World War II structure and on the surrounding beach. The story concerns the surviving coastal-defense bunker, rather than a generic haunting anywhere along Cape May's shore.
The cells of Mount Holly’s former county prison are still linked to ghost stories, and the museum makes room for both history and paranormal exploration.
Tillie Smith's ghost is the figure most closely associated with Centenary in HauntedPlaces.org's account. Staff and students reportedly see the young woman on campus, where she worked before her 1886 murder. Her story also survives in theatrical retellings; those performances are distinct from the alleged sightings.
One campus profile only; not padded into separate building records. Historical trial details require independent verification.
At the Collings-Knight House, HauntedPlaces.org collects reports of dark human silhouettes, footsteps with no walker visible and voices without a discoverable speaker. The account is attached to the historic house itself and does not give a reliably identified ghost or a particular death as its explanation.
According to HauntedPlaces.org, chairs in the Darress Theatre's backstage area have moved when no one was visibly shifting them. The local explanation is a former actor who has remained with the theatre. His identity is not established in the short account.
HauntedPlaces.org recounts perfume, unexplained sounds and a shadowy woman at the tower's windows. Local versions link the figure to its builder's wife and claim screams can be heard nearby. Those dramatic explanations remain unverified legend, while the stone tower is a real, identifiable Alpine landmark.
Palisades Interstate Park history identifies this as Rionda's ornate water tower and explicitly rejects the wife's suicide story: Harriet died after a stroke in 1922. The haunting remains folklore. Do not count Wyoming's Devils Tower, permit entry, or offer dangerous road-circling rituals.
The Devil's Tree is described in HauntedPlaces.org folklore as warm even in winter, with snow supposedly failing to settle as it does elsewhere. People who damage it are said to suffer a curse. The story makes one particular tree a feared landmark, without establishing a supernatural property or curse as fact.
Claims of lynchings and Klan use are unverified and are not repeated as established history. Do not damage the tree or enter private land.
HauntedPlaces.org records an unusually quiet haunting at the Pitney House: visitors staying in its separate cottage reportedly hear faint fife music with no identified musician. The source supplies no named ghost or documented event explaining the tune, so the specific sound remains the center of the story.
Drew's campus legends, collected by HauntedPlaces.org, include a spectacled man appearing in a Great Hall mirror and faces seeming to emerge from carved ceilings as chandeliers sway. Outside, a translucent woman in blue is said to linger near the arboretum lake. One campus record consolidates these related stories.
HauntedPlaces.org collects reports of alarms sounding, calls from disconnected phones and lights glowing in the empty school. A former pupil describes an elderly woman's face at a cafeteria window and unexplained auditorium piano music; another contributor recalls misty figures upstairs. The accounts span different decades rather than identifying one agreed-upon ghost.
Madison / Florham Park, New Jersey · Historic house
Campus lore collected by HauntedPlaces.org associates Lenfel Hall with an apparition identified as founder Peter Sammartino and lights turning on and off. Around the Florham Mansion, another recurring figure is a girl in a white dress who appears to dance. Related mansion-campus stories are consolidated here.
Glendora, Gloucester Township, New Jersey · Historic house
In HauntedPlaces.org's account, footsteps and sounds of suffering come from the attic, while former resident William Schock appears in a rocking chair with a pipe. One neighborhood contributor describes figures in worn Revolutionary-era clothing near an outbuilding, disappearing as he approached while voices remained audible.
War-hospital and bloodstained-furniture claims in the directory are not independently verified and are omitted as established history.
HauntedPlaces.org reports an elderly male apparition walking inside Hageman Farm's house or looking through the dining-room windows. Some tellings dress him in what appears to be a Civil War uniform. The unidentified figure is the specific haunting attached to this preserved family farm.
The figure's identity and clothing interpretation remain part of the account, not documented history.
In a 2017 HauntedPlaces.org account, a former honeymoon guest recalls an apparition visible only in a third-floor mirror, an isolated cold patch and the sensation of somebody sitting on the occupied bed. A radio allegedly switched on around midnight. The contributor links the experience to later-heard stories of a woman haunting the third floor.
Lower Township / Cape May area, New Jersey · Natural landmark
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a sailor who appears briefly on a dune before vanishing. Other local tales associate the wooded trails with Higbee and a second figure he supposedly chases. Community contributors describe a strong sensation of being watched or followed along the trails and human figures that seem to disappear when approached.
The directory also repeats an enslaved-person pursuit story; no historical proof for that explanation was established. Check wildlife-area closures and regulations.
HauntedPlaces.org describes apparent echoes of the Hindenburg disaster: shouted line-handling commands and cries of fire heard outside the hangar. Accounts also mention figures resembling airship or Navy personnel. The story is attached to the actual Lakehurst airship site, with the hangar and crash memorial treated together.
HauntedPlaces.org associates the Macomber with a former regular guest and a former employee. Reports concentrate on room 10 and include banging, moved possessions and doors operating without a visible person. A 2020 visitor account adds shadow figures and bathroom taps reportedly turning on and off during the night.
The short local account collected by HauntedPlaces.org identifies the inn's reported spirit as Esmerelda. Guests supposedly see her around the turret room, the particular room most closely linked with the story. The account does not establish who she was in life.
Franklin Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org associates the old Iona Lake Inn with a spirit called Victor and a woman dressed in black. Other tellings identify the former proprietors as lingering presences. The account follows one lakeside building through its restaurant names, rather than treating each business as a different haunted site.
In HauntedPlaces.org's account, soldier figures are associated with the Whitall House and its wartime medical use. People report breathing, subdued voices and painful-sounding moans in rooms linked with the wounded, together with abrupt cold spots. The atmosphere is described through those reported sounds rather than invented battle scenes.
The forest's ghost story, as told by HauntedPlaces.org, concerns a young girl named Jenny who jumped from a cliff after her frightened father called out to her. Her small apparition is said to remain near the rocks. The naming story is a regional legend rather than a verified account of a child's death.