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Devil's Tree

Bernards Township, NJ

A solitary oak in a public park has accumulated stories involving curses, unexplained warmth and supposed hangings. Historical evidence does not support many of the more sensational claims, but the tree remains one of New Jersey's best-known pieces of local supernatural folklore.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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