New Jersey – The Watcher, Westfield
So, in 2014, a nice and well-off family moved into their dream home that had been built in 1905, in an upper class New Jersey town. Good for them! Then they started getting really creepy letters. Like…really…just awful letters. This is from the first one, which arrived in June of that year: “My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time. Do you know the history of the house? Do you know what lies within the walls of 657 Boulevard? Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested? Better for me.”
They had children, which just ups the creep factor. The neighbors decided, instead of installing shiny new door locks and a neighborhood watch, to vilify the new family. Apparently the previous owners of the home had received letters a well, and just refrained from putting that in the listing. Because who wouldn’t disclose getting love notes from strangers like this?
“Who has the bedrooms facing the street? I’ll know as soon as you move in. It will help me to know who is in which bedroom. Then I can plan better.” The family that moved in 2014 has been unable to sell the home, even at a loss.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)