Witches Well in Mount Holly, NJ - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFwPDdBR5E[/media] At the end of the video there seems to be a boarded window at the back? [editline]26th July 2011[/editline] Also here's a link which talks about the legend of the Jersey Devil which was supposedly chained up in there: [url]http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=28[/url] [editline]26th July 2011[/editline] "There's an old graveyard, Mt. Holly Cemetery, right down the hill from it on Ridgeway Street., though you can't really see it from the altar. There's a gravestone in there... it was in the front of the graveyard, on the left side, if you enter from Ridgeway Street. The grave was of a young woman and it read something like, “[b]Thus is the fate of all who turn from God[/b]” and it was said that this was the woman who summoned the Jersey Devil. He killed her, and was caught and chained up inside that altar. –Ken N.

[QUOTE=Ryz0;31350717]At the end of the video there seems to be a boarded window at the back?[/QUOTE] It is a board, however if you compare the two videos, the newer one has wires coming out of it. Very strange.

"Off to the left of this is the Witches’ Well. If you follow the trail to the left you will run into it. Supposedly, before the gallows were put up, there was a witch who started the whole practice in the town and was thrown down this well. The witch wasn't killed instantly. She screamed and banged on the inside of the well walls until her hands were bloody, begging to be helped. After she died, the townspeople still heard her cries for help and the sound of her bloody knuckles rapping on the walls. They later built a shed over the top of the well to end the haunting. It is said that if you go there at night and knock on the walls of the shed, you can hear her knock back for help. –Ghsthntr1978" :ohdear:

[IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/432093737_325778c67e.jpg[/IMG] Oh god

[QUOTE=Ryz0;31350969]"Off to the left of this is the Witches’ Well. If you follow the trail to the left you will run into it. Supposedly, before the gallows were put up, there was a witch who started the whole practice in the town and was thrown down this well. The witch wasn't killed instantly. She screamed and banged on the inside of the well walls until her hands were bloody, begging to be helped. After she died, the townspeople still heard her cries for help and the sound of her bloody knuckles rapping on the walls. They later built a shed over the top of the well to end the haunting. It is said that if you go there at night and knock on the walls of the shed, you can hear her knock back for help. –Ghsthntr1978" :ohdear:[/QUOTE] So basically it's a wall to keep a dead person in a well.

Oh god that's creepy. [img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3583/3565927426_efd205d48c.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Gmodcinema;31341879]Why not just cap it off, or fill it with dirt? To spend the money on a large building around it with high security seems suspicious.[/QUOTE] Fences are cheap to install, as are fake security cameras with warning voices. The building looks fairly old so it was probably constructed before all the other measures. It may sound cheaper/easier to fill the well in with dirt but that may not be the case. It looks heavily wooded around the site so bringing in heavy earth-moving machinery is unlikely to be possible. Then there is the question of finding the dirt necessary to fill in what could be a really deep well. Building a small shack on top of the hill may have been far cheaper/easier at the time of it's construction. I know it's fun to think that some ancient evil lurks inside there or that it's some secret installation, but there are far more reasonable explanations for what he found at the site.

[QUOTE=kidwithsword;31338843]Any FPers live in New Jersey?[/QUOTE] yo

I use to live in NJ and I would recommend places like Clinton Road. A ton of stuff there also near where I lived used to be a little kid amusement park. It didn't get enough money so it is just a empty park in the woods with fairy tale stuff in it. Its called Fairy Tale Forest. Also you can get a huge Weird New Jersey book if you don't have it already.

fuckin' hell that's creepy. Imagine how bad the shit that went on in there used to be, to the point where they sealed it off. Maybe shit still is going on in there. that's why they sealed it off.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;31379722]Fences are cheap to install, as are fake security cameras with warning voices. The building looks fairly old so it was probably constructed before all the other measures. It may sound cheaper/easier to fill the well in with dirt but that may not be the case. It looks heavily wooded around the site so bringing in heavy earth-moving machinery is unlikely to be possible. Then there is the question of finding the dirt necessary to fill in what could be a really deep well. Building a small shack on top of the hill may have been far cheaper/easier at the time of it's construction. I know it's fun to think that some ancient evil lurks inside there or that it's some secret installation, but there are far more reasonable explanations for what he found at the site.[/QUOTE] So let me get it straight. It's easier and cheaper to secure a well so that people wouldn't fall into it with fences, fake cameras, and building a stone shack with metal bars around it than, say putting a metal lid or bars on the well itself? Also since you already have the stone shack with metal bars to protect the well what's the point of the fence and cameras? Since all of this is a great idea to secure a well so people wouldn't fall in it wouldn't we be seeing many of these? An ancient evil lurking inside there or that it's some secret installation is more reasonable explanation than yours, because yours makes no sense.

it's probably a fake, like wtf it doesn't seem like anything so special is actually going on in there or else it would actually be guarded; it's probably just some purposely set up interesting exotic mystery thing based on a local rumor that people can discuss and pique their interest or some shit.

[QUOTE=Silly Sil;31382966]So let me get it straight. It's easier and cheaper to secure a well so that people wouldn't fall into it with fences, fake cameras, and building a stone shack with metal bars around it than, say putting a metal lid or bars on the well itself? Also since you already have the stone shack with metal bars to protect the well what's the point of the fence and cameras? Since all of this is a great idea to secure a well so people wouldn't fall in it wouldn't we be seeing many of these? An ancient evil lurking inside there or that it's some secret installation is more reasonable explanation than yours, because yours makes no sense.[/QUOTE] The building appears to be old so I believe the current owners didn't pay for it's construction. At most they may have added the bars to the door. As I said, fences and fake cameras are cheap. My guess is that they wanted to deter vandalism and discourage people from trying to break into the building. Why wouldn't you see many of these? Location. A well nearer a road or in an open field is much easier and cheaper to fill with dirt. A well on the top of a heavily forested hill is far more difficult to fill in. An ancient evil or secret installation don't make any sense at all. You don't draw attention to places like that with cheap security like a fence and fake cameras. You do keep mischievous teenagers out of places using such tricks though.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;31404795]The building appears to be old so I believe the current owners didn't pay for it's construction. At most they may have added the bars to the door. As I said, fences and fake cameras are cheap. My guess is that they wanted to deter vandalism and discourage people from trying to break into the building. Why wouldn't you see many of these? Location. A well nearer a road or in an open field is much easier and cheaper to fill with dirt. A well on the top of a heavily forested hill is far more difficult to fill in. An ancient evil or secret installation don't make any sense at all. You don't draw attention to places like that with cheap security like a fence and fake cameras. You do keep mischievous teenagers out of places using such tricks though.[/QUOTE] I researched the type of camera, I have not counted but there are four at $5,000 dollars a piece, not very cheap. I do not think anything paranormal is happening in the area, but I do believe there are still Pagans that live in this town and want to keep their history concealed. For example, new paint has been painted over the alter to preserve it. Activity of cults are also common in the area.

It'd be awesome if there was like, a chained up skeleton in it, or something.

Curiosity mildly creeped out the cat.

Just call tourist information, get info, mystery solved.

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;31404795]The building appears to be old so I believe the current owners didn't pay for it's construction. At most they may have added the bars to the door. As I said, fences and fake cameras are cheap. My guess is that they wanted to deter vandalism and discourage people from trying to break into the building. Why wouldn't you see many of these? Location. A well nearer a road or in an open field is much easier and cheaper to fill with dirt. A well on the top of a heavily forested hill is far more difficult to fill in. An ancient evil or secret installation don't make any sense at all. You don't draw attention to places like that with cheap security like a fence and fake cameras. You do keep mischievous teenagers out of places using such tricks though.[/QUOTE] I was just pointing out that an ancient evil or secret installation is less far fetched than making all those fortifications just to secure a well.

I live right near there :V I know jack shit about it though... [editline]29th July 2011[/editline] Mount Holly I mean.

[QUOTE=Winters;31414883]I live right near there :V I know jack shit about it though... [editline]29th July 2011[/editline] Mount Holly I mean.[/QUOTE] go knock on the door or something srsly do it

Religious nuts trying to conceal their past?

Maybe It's an entrance to a Top-Secret Government Organization that's Underground!

[QUOTE=PJAMA;31423112]Maybe It's an entrance to a Top-Secret Government Organization that's Underground![/QUOTE] Or maybe it's an old well thats covered off because there is the possibility of there being corpses in it, and people could hurt themselves or children could fall in it. or maybe theres a looney conspiracy theorist that could give us a less logical explanation.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;31423456]Or maybe it's an old well thats covered off because there is the possibility of there being corpses in it, and people could hurt themselves or children could fall in it. or maybe theres a looney conspiracy theorist that could give us a less logical explanation.[/QUOTE] Nah, it's probably the crazy secret base thing....

need more of these videos

Facepunch should organize a camping trip there, and break into the shed. Illegal yes, but it'd be fun right?

I'm close enough. I live in the Philadelphia area and it's about an hour to Mount Holly from here.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;31423456]Or maybe it's an old well thats covered off because there is the possibility of there being corpses in it, and people could hurt themselves or children could fall in it. or maybe theres a looney conspiracy theorist that could give us a less logical explanation.[/QUOTE] why would they bother putting an entire shed around it, then fencing it off and have cameras overlooking it as opposed to just slapping a big circular iron plate around the well opening and weld it on there. there was a whole discussion about this on page 1 and 2

Perhaps it's owned by the USGS and they installed sensors for seismic activity inside the well and just don't want people breaking into their shit? The video said there were multiple USGS markers around the alter. Maybe they own the whole area.

It's hiding the anus of earth.