This image is the cover for the book Haunted Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties, Haunted America

Haunted Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties, Haunted America

The Jersey Devil isn’t the only supernatural entity that stalks the Garden State: Here are tales of pirates, patients, and prisoners, oh my!

Few places are as obsessed with the paranormal as New Jersey, and the area once known as West Jersey is a hotbed of supernatural activity. The ghost of a young boy in Mannington appears to welcome guests and partygoers to a historic bed-and-breakfast. The tortured soul of a weathered sea pirate remains in Greenwich, still imprisoned after three hundred years. Malevolent spirits haunt the abandoned Salem County Insane Asylum, menacing those who dare venture to the solitary confinement rooms in the basement. Paranormal investigator and researcher Kelly Lin Gallagher-Roncace shares frightening New Jersey folklore that makes for great fireside storytelling.

Includes photos!

“During Gallagher-Roncace’s time as a reporter for the South Jersey Times, she created a weekly column called ‘Paranormal Corner,’ where she would divulge into anything ‘weird’— UFOs, Bigfoot, Jersey Devils and hauntings. Through her exploration with her paranormal investigation group Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society — also known as JUMPS — she experienced ‘the feels’ for the first time in the old Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church.” —The Washington Township Sun

Kelly Lin Gallagher-Roncace

Kelly Lin Gallagher-Roncace is an entertainment and features writer for NJ Advance Media and NJ.com living in Pennsville Township, New Jersey. Kelly started her writing career as a news reporter at the Today’s Sunbeam—a newspaper that covered Salem County. She switched directions and became a features writer for the Today’s Sunbeam’s sister paper, the Gloucester County Times in 2009. In 2012, the two newspapers, in addition to the News of Cumberland County, merged to become the South Jersey Times, covering all three western New Jersey counties—Salem, Cumberland, and Gloucester. It was during her tenure there that she began writing about the unexplained in the weekly column, “Paranormal Corner.” In 2015, Kelly received a third place in entertainment column writing in the New Jersey Press Association awards. In 2016, Kelly was asked to join NJ Advance Media’s entertainment team and now enjoys writing about paranormal legends and happenings throughout the state.

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