

There are wild bunnies that run across the garden too. Oh yeah and there is the Van Vleck house which is a mansion with beautiful gardens open to the public. Eagle Rock can be a little sketchy so check it out with a friend but overall its a cool place. Other than downtown Montclair has a lot of beautiful parks and a really nice reservation called Eagle Rock. If you are vegetarian/vegan there is a great vegan restaurant on that same street (Church ave where Blu Lotus is) and there is a smoothie acai bowl shop on that street too for dessert. That’s like their specialty don’t get anything else haha. If you want to hang around Bloomfield Ave in downtown Montclair I’d suggest for lunch go to Raymonds which is a super cute classic Americana restaurant that sells great Egg Creams and Burgers. There’s a new magic tool and spiritual shop further down bloomfield ave called Mystic Spirit Metaphysical Shoppe. There is an incredible crystal shop also on Bloomfield Ave called Rocky’s Crystals & Minerals. There is also Parcel further up bloomfield ave that sells really nice stationary and has an Amelie, whimsical faerie-like feel. There are more magical stores up and down bloomfield ave which is where the downtown stores are centered around. There are a lot of magical shops there too like Blu Lotus that sells a lot of magical tools and items and is beautiful. (Clifton Gates I don’t think it’s protected at all)įor towns there are a few that are nice. Halfass meaning it has a cheap metal chain fence around it but police might be snooping around so you want to be careful because I am assuming that for the hospital you could be trespassing if you enter anyway. Also like mentioned above if you do go- I think at least for Greystone it’s a halfass protected historical site. Its like they had to evacuate one day and never cleaned up anything). My friends said that they still have medical records and everything in tact. (btw the asylum was called Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in case you are interested lol. I think it’s cool to know about The Gates of Hell but I am giving you a long ass disclaimer about going there haha. Like aside from being very empathetic and probably feeling the trauma the ghosts went through their waking lives there, I am moreso always concerned about living people and what they’re capable of.

A lot of kids in my school knew about weird haunted abandoned places in NJ like there is an abandoned asylum that still has electric chairs intact and an abandoned mansion but the stories they told always sounded really creepy and really dangerous. I would suggest you go with someone and be armed or something but also this is totally a bad idea and like how horror films start.
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It’s like a series of storm drains and there has been cults doing weird magic inside. Like if the NJ devil is real he would be chillin here. A lot of kids from my high school would come here for the thrill but would leave kind of disturbed. I’m just letting you know about it since you asked but its like. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Clifton’s Gates of Hell-I’m not far from Clifton but this place is incredibly dangerous. Sparks, formerly at Bowie Public Library, MDĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The action moves seamlessly from present to past as Nick struggles to maintain a balance between the two worlds while becoming stronger and more secure in both.- Leah J. The author's richly detailed, fully imagined world of Talia comes alive for her characters who "stravagate" there, and for readers as well. Secrets stands on its own, though teen fantasy and history buffs will likely clamor for the first three books in this wonderful series. Together, the two young men and Luciano's betrothed must find a way to stop a plot by the powerful de Chimici family to take over Talia. In Talia, he reads effortlessly and is apprenticed to a printmaker in the city-state of Padavia, where he befriends Luciano, a teenager from his own time and the protagonist in the first book in the series, Stravaganza: City of Masks (Bloomsbury, 2002). In his own time, Nick struggles with dyslexia and is insecure about his relationship with popular, beautiful Ayesha. Grade 9 Up-In this addition to the popular series, 17-year-old Nick discovers that he has the power to travel between his home in contemporary London and 16th-century Talia, a country in which some magic and sorcery is possible.
