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 Anyone who has lived here in Southern New Jersey has heard of the Pine Barrens. Scattered throughout the Pines,
are a bunch of little old towns. One of them is Atco (Waterford Township). Atco is right in the thick of the Pines and
is bordered by Wharton State Forest in many places. Anyone living in this town or any town
near Atco has heard of the Atco Ghost. Down a dark road in Atco, supposedly Burnt Mill Road, there is a house, and apparently a few years back a little boy was playing with a ball in the yard. Now understand that Burnt Mill Road is a long straight road that goes for quite a while and heads straight out into the forest. It is pretty common for cars to go pretty fast down this road and in fact you could say they race down this road. Well, the little boy chased his ball into the street, where he was hit by a speeding car and killed. The car and its partying occupants took off and were never found. Another version of the story says that a speeding truck came out of sewer treatment complex at the end of the paved part of the road and the drunkin driver hit the kid.
Just a Note!! There is NO documentation on any child being hit and
killed by an automobile or truck on Burnt Mill Road. Go
Figure!! But anyway......
 Over the years, people have been going to the spot of the tragedy to see the little boys ghost chasing his ball into the road. You are to go at midnight and park in a specific spot. Then flash your lights at the area
across from the house. The house is one which is suppose to have a fence in the front with an opening leading up to the home. You are to park three telephone poles away from the opening in the fence and face the area in front of the house.
Sound your horn 3 times, blink your headlights 3 times and if you wait long enough and the paranormal conditions are just right, an image of the dead boy is supposed to be seen chasing the ball into the street with headlights coming at him. Almost all of the people that have seen this have described it in the same way. Some have seen slightly different scenes but the basic story is the same.
I'll tell you this, if you do go down Burnt Mill Road at night and keep going beyond where the pavement stops and then keep going a little farther you'll probably end up with some ghost stories of your own. It's a
"DARK as dark can be" road. You can easily end up lost and even if you're lucky enough to end up back on paved road before morning you're not going to know where
you are anyway.
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- Veterans Haven - Veterans Haven is right next to Bayside Prison Ward and Ancora Mental Institution. It was once a town the psychiatric hospital made for some patients to all live together. Most of the residents were veterans from the war with war related problems. Many of the patients ended up harming and even murdering each other. Eventually, so many killings took place they just shut the whole town down. There has been a lot of paranormal activity there and for some reason the street lights are still left on through out the little deserted ghost town.
Atco - Multiplex Theatre - There is a strange noise that can be heard in theater 6 almost as if someone is moving their hands across the wall and there is also a voice can has been heard. Nobody seems to know why but this has been reported on a number of occasions. If anyone has any more information on this or any of the other stories posted here please use our Message Forum and tell us what you know!
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Some Jersey Devil Stories
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Leeds Point - The Jersey Devil - Around 1735 Mrs. Shrouds was heard to have said that if she were to have another child she wanted it to be a DEVIL. She got pregnant and the baby was born very deformed. She hid the baby from everyone until one stormy night when it stretched it's arms out and they turned into bat like wings. It crawled up the chimney and flew off into the night.
Estelville - The Jersey Devil - In 1735, Mrs. Abigale Leeds was about to give birth to her 13th child. She was in so much pain she screamed for the DEVIL to take the child. She got her wish as it was born a very deformed creature. It had the head of a horse, with horns, wings like a bat and a serpentine body with a pointed tail. It came back to visit her everyday until she stood outside and told it to leave and never come back.
Over the years there have been many Jersey Devil stories and sightings. The name Leeds is in all the stories. The time period is about the same and the area is about the same. There have been documented sightings since about 1735. More recently it was sighted in 1951 in Gibbstown and in 1960 near Mays Landing. In more recent years, the Jersey Devil is seen haunting the cemeteries, coastal wetlands and churchyards of Howell Township. Appearances of the Jersey Devil are often accompanied by the disappearance of local pets.
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