Ghostbustin in NY and NJ: trip report

“Mapleleaf's photo album:

http://community.webshots.com/album/111982428cUAiGe”

“link

Cool! (literally)”

“The Shady Gang strikes again.”

“yea,.. we're weird”

“You people need help but I like what you are all doing its a turnon!


8)”

“You people need help but I like what you are all doing its a turnon!


8)"
Crazy Mike Backpacks
10:24:17 AM
01/18/04

They need help?”

“Well I might need a little.


8p”

“we like to live on the wild side, LOL”

“LOL!! Calmwater3 said we needed a mystery machine, so it's funny that u posted it”

“Now that is one pimp van!!!!!!



8)”

“When I first read the trip description, the "Scooby Doo, Where are You" song went through my head.”

“That van is cooler than the batmobile and the Dukes of Hazzard car combined!”

“You guys are crazy! I can't believe you colored the kids mat at Fridays!”

“Oh, and captions would help with your pictures! I was wondering who the hottie in the TNF jacket in picture three was until I saw picture 15 and realized it was just ScorchFire! ;-)

Was that fox really a dead animal or a prop?

Plus who were the other people on the trip..Maple's daughter and the other two were (besides Tree, and john)?”

“Hey, it's not my picture album, tell maple to put up her damn captions! The other people who went: Tree, Maple, Me, Calmwater3, Chips76, Twignut, and twignut's friend.

And hell yea we colored the TGIF mat! My work of art is posted in this thread LOL.”

“I was wondering who the hottie in the TNF jacket in picture three was until I saw picture 15 and realized it was just ScorchFire! ;-)

VERY FUNNY!”

“and gary (chips76) is supposed to be writing the trip report today over the tree house,.. but i see no pull-through. tsk tsk.”

“did you guys realize there were shadowy images hovering over you in some of those pics? Your lucky you got out alive.”

“yea right!”

“I was wondering who the hottie in the TNF jacket in picture three was until I saw picture 15 and realized it was just ScorchFire! ;-)

VERY FUNNY!"
ScorchFire


Much love Scorchy! I was just playin! ;-)”

“I wanted to go :(
No fun sittn' at home and doing nothn'

was hoping you bring home a real ghost though....heeheehee”

“Where's the trip report slackers?”

“Gem- we missed you :( me and maple said it just wasn't the same without you!

lz- chip was supposed to do it, he's the slacker!”

“My day has been totally nonproductive while I've waited for this trip report. Waiting...still waiting.”

“I'll do this damn trip report, even if it IS cutting into my Eagles time!

Friday night: arrived at the Tree house around 9:30ish or so. Chip was already there, very nice guy, he smokes my brand of cigarettes.... uh, I mean, I quit.
Waited around for Calmwater who finally arrived there at 11pm or so.
Myself, Treebeard, Mapleleaf, Chip, Calmwater, and Twignut headed over to the Monastery on Staten Island to scope things out. Took a bunch of flashlights since it was completely dark out. No trespassing signs made it even more fun since we had to sneak around. Monastery was cool, although it would have been more fun if we could have gotten inside. It was all boarded up and the openings that were on ground level were cemented up. Booooo! :( You can read more about the Monastery here:
http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/SImon/SImon.html

Saturday: woke up around 8am to the smell of pancakes, sausage and eggs! Maple is such a mom. After a hearty meal and waking up the hungover bums (calmwater and chip), we headed out around 9:30 am or so to NJ. Shennell (sp?), Twignut's friend also joined us in place of Treebeard who stayed home and worked on the house (AKA spackled lots of holes up on the wall!!) We took the Tree car and Calmwater's car (which I had to drive cause he was still DRUNK!). Headed down to Jersey.

First stop was the Jackson house in Jackson, NJ. Wasn't very scarey in the night and probably wouldn't have been in the dark either because it was in a pretty populated neighborhood. The only cool thing there was the self-playing piano (see pics). You can read more about the Jackson house here:
http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/Jax/jax.html

Next stop was the Slaughter House which you can read more about here:
http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/Slaughter/slaughter.html
Now THIS place was SCAREY! We had to park cars across the street and down the road because the gate to the farm was closed and there was no where to park on the road. After a short hike to the farmland, we found the first abandoned house (see pics where calmwater knocks on the door, LOL). Took some pictures there... not very scarey. Continued down the path to the pig barn where they housed the pigs... found a huge haypile with a weird shaped wood cross... next to the cross was a dead fox (see pics). The strange thing was, the fox had been obviously dead for a few days and was already decomposing... but there was no signs of any animals feasting on it. Sacrifices? Who knows. Didn't look as if anyone had been on these grounds in a few days since the snow from earlier in this week was undisturbed besides a ton of deer tracks.
Continued down the path of the farmland to finally find the slaughter house... THIS is where it got scarey. Lots of sticker bushes to go around to the openings (see pics). A ton of graffitti inside the house. Some read that we would die tonight, others read "i see you" with bloody handprints (spray paint). It was kinda funny. We walked into what seemed to be a freezer where the meat was hung after the pigs were slaughtered. When opening the freezer (now keep in mind, there's NO electricity in this place and the freezer hasn't been turned on in years), there was a really cold gust of wind.. the temperature seemed to drop noticeably... (insert twilight music here).

After spending a lot of time at this place, we were starving. Headed to TGIFridays where one of the Lollipop kids from The Wizard of Oz served us as the waitor ("We represent the Lollipop kids, the Lollipop kids, the Lollipop kids. We represent the Lollipop kids!!! We wish to welcome you to Munchkind land!"). He later on called us annoying since we wanted to pay separately. Bastard! We acted like fools and colored the placemats.

After TGIF's, we headed to Kinnelon, NJ to the Kinnelon Castle House, which you can read more about here:
http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/CastleHouse/castlehouse.html (there are some good daylight pictures on that web page).
It was dark out by this time and it took us a while to find the actual castle, which was buried in the woods. Finally, maple pulled over and asked a FedEx driver to help us find it (go maple!). FedEx man led us to the street it was on and left us to explore. Whatta cool dude. Still couldn't find it once we were on the road, so some teens at deli shop told us exactly where to go. We would have never found it if the locals didn't help us out. When finally there, the view was awesome. The pictures can't describe how big and old it actually was. There was quite a few fireplaces in the structure, but it was all roofless from aging. It was apparent where the kitchen was because it had tiled slate floor (or what looked like slate). The weird thing was, there was 2 nooses hanging from different spots on the structure (see pics). The one noose (after examining the pictures later on) has a pretty big orb (ghost?) next to it. Kinda creepy. Later after examining the rest of the pics, we blew up the one with calmwater, me, and chip in it and there seems to be a good amount of small orbs all around chip.... hehe, you're next, big guy!

After leaving the castle, we went back to the car where Twignut and her friend was waiting for us (big babies!) and headed home. Got home around 10pm or so and ate some dinner and then the drinking began once again (except of course me because I planned on leaving late in the night around 3am to avoid Sun morn traffic).

Calmwater and I watched the weather and realized that snow was on it's way, so we wanted to get home before it started to land/freeze. We left around 1:30am. He went his way, I went mine and we kept checking in on each other since the roads were real bad. Plus I was getting bored and felt like talking to someone so I didn't fall asleep. On my way home, the roads were okay in the beginning, although the salt on the wet road made for real bad visibility out the windshield. It got increasingly worse on the way home and pretty soon the white snow covered the entire highway and couldn't see which lane was which. It didn't help that there weren't very many people on the highway to make tire paths.

Got home around 3am and zonked out til about 11am. Then went back to bed around 1-3.

Now the Eagles are on and if you'll excuse me, I'm missing the game. Thanks to Chip for the lovely trip report... oh wait ;P

Just teasing. Sorry it wasn't the best, but I'm in a rush to watch the game!”

“First stop was the Jackson house in Jackson, NJ. Wasn't very scarey in the night and probably wouldn't have been in the dark either because it was in a pretty populated neighborhood.

Should read: "Wasn't very scarey in the daytime...."”

“thanks chip! ;-)”

“:P”

“ttt for maple”

“the fox freaked me out. maybe becasue it was right next to the homemade cross...


slaughter house creeped me out. the castle was a blast. yeah whats up with all the orbs around chips?
dude stay away from me.


chips76 is a very cool guy that had me laughing all weekend.
he is good at one liners.
of course it was great to see my ghost hunting buddy scorch...:)

and calmwater it is always great to see you! you make my laugh.

I had a great time. It was fun trying to find places in the middle of nowhere. whats up with the Fed-Ex guy in the middle of no freakin where at 7:30pm Sat night and knew where we needed to go? hmmmm makes ya wonder.


so where are we going next time?
and who has balls enough to go with us????”

“whats up with the Fed-Ex guy in the middle of no freakin where at 7:30pm Sat night and knew where we needed to go? hmmmm makes ya wonder.

LOL, it was 5:30. I remember this because I thought it was later too because it was so freakin dark and we had been driving for what seemed like forever. I asked John why he thought the FedEx guy was working so late and then I looked at the clock and realized it was only 5:30... still late for him to be working, but hey, "they deliver."”

“but there were no houses anywhere. that road was spooky. it was so dark and i cant see worth crap.”

“i know... oh well”

“Man, you guys have a lot of fun on your outings! I bet you guys are a real riot to hang out with!”

“you will never know till you get your butty to NY!

we need to plan another one.

any ideas?

I heard Ohio is full of ghost.
what so you think Ghost Busters?”

“i'm up for anything as always”

“What's even more weird is that FedEx doesn't normally deliver on Saturdays...”

“There is a place called Zelski that has an old ghost town near the trail and an old RR tunnel that is supposed to be haunted by a RR brakeman that was killed on the tracks. You can see his red lantern swinging in the dark on the tracks. There is an old cemetery near there too that has some freaky shlt. Some weird stuff shows up on pictures taken there. I’m planning on doing a hike there to see it soon.”

“Maybe it was a ghost of a FedEx driver that died making a delivery and is domed to try every night forever and ever.”

“that'd be cool, lz... too bad we didn't get a picture of him. calmwater tried but he didn't want to freak out the fedex dude.

nigal, make sure you take pics if you go!”

“You could always go to FYAO IV. There are about 30 buildings associated with the old Great Camp. Here is a photo of one of them.

Ghost?”

“ok they are all done check the pics again pleae!

ghost hunters”

“:( I still can't get over it that I wasn't able to go this time. That's okay though...there is always a better next time.

Next 4 day weekend I'll be game for sure. Dang!! I am glad though you guys had fun.

what's up with chip? he didn't even post yet? did you scare him away or what?? (Hope he's okay)”

“no he is still visiting people. should be home by tuesday.
stayed with us and watched football with treebeard, then headed to a friends house.”

“Hey Maple, pretty cool captions on the pics, your to funny lol”

“Glad you all lived!”