This Haunted Hike In New Jersey Will Send You Running For The Hills
Kristen
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There is nothing like hiking through the woods to a potentially haunted place and testing your courage in the wilderness. If you like to get your heart racing and your adrenaline pumping then we have the ultimate haunted hike in New Jersey. The Batona Trail that wanders through the Pine Barrens is a beautiful place to get out and explore. However, once you learn about the haunted history this hike holds, it might just make for a different experience altogether.
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Born on a stormy night, the baby was anything but human. It killed the midwife and flew off into the woods. For years it tormented local children and farmers, killing livestock. Many describe the creature as having hooves, wings, and a forked tail; some also add horns and a blood-curling scream to the description.
Researchers theorize that the story began as an attempt to discredit the Leeds Family by political rivals or local Quakers who did not approve of their non-Quaker religious beliefs. Known as the Leeds Devil until the early 1900s, even Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Joseph claimed to have spotted the winged devil.
The last resident left the town in 1936, but not before some strange disappearances. A Polish immigrant, John Chininiski, and his wife lived in the area. She disappeared without a trace, and shortly after he went missing as well. Years later, a single skeleton was found in the woods nearby.
But the story gets even stranger. According to an urban legend (and a handful of conspiracy theorists), Ong's Hat contains a portal to another dimension. Disgraced Princeton professors, mocked for their quantum physics theories, fled to the area in the 1970s. They are said to have discovered the secret of inter-dimensional travel.
This haunted trail in New Jersey has plenty of areas for parking and camping along the route, so you can make this hike as long or short as you’d like. I think a good out and back trail would be starting at Ong’s Hat (along Turkey Buzzard Bridge Road, Pemberton) and ending at Deep Hollow Pond, before heading back. The hike would be moderate, at around 5 miles. For another haunted hike in New Jersey, check out Jenny Jump Forest.
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