Halloween 2017

It's a 70 year old tradition here in Toms River as Halloween comes around - students from Toms River High School South spend the day decorating storefronts along Main Street and Washington Street ahead of the annual Toms River Halloween Parade.

Last week I gave you some teases about our recent investigation of an allegedly haunted Asbury Park building. I promised to tell you the rest of the story, so here it is.

Just yesterday I started to tell you about the paranormal investigation that I went on this past weekend at Asbury Park's Paranormal Books & Curiosities. Today, the owner, Kathy Kelly, sent me some interesting footage off of one of her security cameras.

Deminski remains an open-minded skeptic.

In the 10 years that I've been doing paranormal investigations I've had plenty of strange experiences. Chills here, hair standing up on the back of my neck there, but this past weekend I had one of the oddest yet.

Here are a dozen reasons why I’ll be glad when October 31st is over:

If you saw 1979's 'The Amityville Horror', this Toms River house should look familiar. Now you can see what it looks like inside!

A lot of us grew up with the traditional hollow plastic jack o' lanterns, and there are always some enterprising kids who grab the biggest pillow case that they can find. But if you grew up in the Toms River area in the 70s, you very well may have had one of these:

It was only two weeks ago that I was complaining about the ridiculousness of back to school displays starting to show up in local stores, with summer not even half over yet. But if you think that's bad, this one takes the cake (or at least the pumpkin spice muffins).