Local writer and educator Patricia Heyer has combined longtime interests in local folklore and writing to produce her new book entitled Thirteen Ghostly Tales and Yarns of the Navesink.  The retired special education teacher has researched and put together some little known stories from Monmouth County’s macabre past. Patricia’s writing combines historical research with local legends. Her new book focuses on the Navesink River and surrounding towns. It tells paranormal stories from Old Monmouth’s Native American past, Colonial history, and modern haunts. Readers learn of the evil sacrificial practices of a Lenape magician and soothsayer, of heroic slaves that were … Continue reading PRESS RELEASE: STRANGE HAPPENINGS ON THE NAVESINK RIVER

Did you know that there was one a war fought on the Navesink and her sister river, the Shrewsbury and no where else on earth? It was known as the OYSTER WAR! The Navesink’s reputation as an oyster producer began in the early Colonial period. Not only were oysters a mainstay of the colonial diet, but also tons of the little eastern oyster were shipped daily from Red Bank’s docks on packet ships bound for New York. By the mid 1700’s the natural oyster beds were depleted to the point that few oysters could be commercially harvested. As a result farmers … Continue reading War on Navesink!

13 Ghostly Tales and Yarns of the Navesink relates “The Curse of the Canus lupus. The newspapers recorded the historical events of this 1927 tragedy with great fanfare. The accounts failed to relate how one man’s dream of owning a zoological park was so cruelly destroyed bye the curse of the canus lupus.     Continue reading The Curse of the Canus lupus