Bernardsville, Bernardsville Public Library
The ghost here is so active, the staff issued it a library card. Phyllis Parker's specter was first encountered in January 1877, in a private residence that now houses part of the library. The building had been converted from a tavern that was constructed during the Revolutionary War. Vealtown Tavern was the scene of a tragic love affair between the innkeeper's daughter and a tenant, Dr. Byram. Just after the two were married, Dr. Byram was hanged by General Anthony Wayne for being a British spy, and his lifeless body was delivered to the tavern. Not knowing what was in the large pine box, Phyllis opened it. On seeing the bug-eyed corpse of her beloved, she became hysterical and suffered a nervous breakdown. Her insane weeping is still heard in the old section of the library, which consists of the Meeting Room and the public Reading Room (where the casket was opened). After renovations in 1974, employees started seeing the apparition of Phyllis moving through the old wing. A videotape recording of a s�ance, held in 1987 in an effort to contact her spirit, can be played back by patrons in the Local History Room. In November 1989, a child saw the ghost of a woman in a long white dress in the Reading Room.
Bernardsville is 8 miles south of Morristown on U.S. Hwy 202, west of Newark. The library is downtown at 2 Morristown Road, Bernardsville, NJ 07924. Phone: 908-766-0118.
Ocean City, The Flanders Hotel
719 11th Street
Ocean City 08226
609-399-1000

A happy ghost known as �The Lady in White� haunts the Flanders, a grand historic hotel, located on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey. Emily appears and disappears into walls, plays with door locks, unscrews light bulbs, and sings happily in its halls. A portrait of Emily painted by artist Tony Troy based on stories and descriptions given to him by workers and guests of the hotel is featured on the second floor.
Over recent years the ghost of the lady in white has often been seen wandering through the Flanders by both staff members and guests. The most recent sighting was in the basement on the building in the early hours of July 7, 1999. She was described as being in her early twenties with long brown hair. Two earlier sightings were of a similar young woman standing near the grand piano.
The sightings before that were mostly confined to the lady in white walking barefoot through the Hall of Mirrors. On many other occasions the laughter of a young woman has been heard throughout the building. Although a ghost, Emily seems happy enough. She�s been heard singing and chuckling merrily in the many grand rooms of the Flanders.
A photograph taken at a one of the many weddings held in the banquet halls captured her ethereal form. Workers and guests in 2002 cite swinging doors, locking doors, unscrewed chandelier light bulbs, and a the train of a white gown disappearing around the corner of a corridor.

Newark
One of the most documented poltergiest cases lasted only two weeks in a low income housing project in Newark. It all began in the apartment of Mabelle Clark, when her 13-year-old grandson, Ernest Rivers, was doing his homework on the kitchen table. To his amazement, a pepper shaker floated over from the stove and landed beside him. For the next two weeks, plates, cups, bowls, glasses, ashtrays, and other fragile objects sailed across their tiny apartment and smashed to the floor. Mrs. Clark tried to keep the unexplainable events secret, because she did not want to be evicted from the apartment where she had lived for 20 years. But neighbors started complaining about all the noise, and before long, representatives from the Newark Housing Authority were knocking at her door. When the officials beheld the unseen force wrecking havoc on the apartment, they brought in a team of parapsychologists. Word of the case spread, and hordes of reporters and curiosity-seekers descended on the building. There were so many people around that over 50 paranormal events were observed by multiple witnesses. A heavy steam iron floated from the linen closet into Mrs. Clark's bedroom, in full view of several people. A table lamp levitated across the living room and a drinking glass rose in mid-air, broke to pieces, then fell to the floor in slow motion. That same evening, Ernest's uncle was attacked by a sudden barrage of small objects. The phenomena stopped when young Ernest was removed from the apartment. He was a deeply troubled youth, whose mother had murdered his abusive prizefighter father five years earlier. Just before the poltergeist activity began, Ernest's mother escaped from a woman's reformatory and was not apprehended until a month later.