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Saturday July 27th

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Movie Poster for Westfield based "The Watcher" (Photo Courtesy IMDb).

Spooky movies based on real NJ events

This Halloween season, turn your attention to these frightening outlets of media, all of which were based on true events that happened within New Jersey's state lines. No matter where you live in this state, one of these instances is bound to be within closer proximity to your hometown than you’d imagine.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, “Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre or Mitsukuni Defying the Skeleton Spectre Invoked by Princess Takiyasha” (1884) (Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Petrusbarbygere, September 8, 2005). 

A brief history of the skeleton in art and science

It’s October, and suddenly all the skeletons are out of closets (physical ones–not metaphorical). They languish on porches and front steps, their plastic jaws unhinged as if surprised, their limp limbs dangling uselessly, eyeballs bulging in sockets that should be empty. 

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