Restless ghosts go to Higbee Beach in Cape May

Restless ghosts go to Higbee Beach in Cape May
7 August 2025 J.W.H
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Who is haunting the Higbee beach in Jersey Shore? Is it because of the disturbed Higbee grave, perhaps the drowned victims of the ship wreck?

Jersey Shore, with jovial rays, sun -based beaches and echo Call of Seagulls, hides a darker side well. Under the dazzling veneer of seaside cities and sea taffy, antique whispers adhere to the sands, refusing to peaceful down time or tide. Nowhere is it more observable than on Higbee Beach in Cape May, New Jersey – a wild section of the shore, in which ghost stories gather like fog on the water. And among them one character stands out: a man in Tatters.

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Beach with a story written in the shade

Long before Higbee Beach became a sanctuary for bird observers and fearless tourists, it was the house of Joseph and Thomas Higbee, two brothers who ran a hotel known as a hermitage in the 19th century. This secluded, unbridled beach at the southern tip of New Jersey was the world itself – a thinner, raised wind and a cover mystery. After the death of the Higbee brothers in the 1870s, the property and the area of the Earth passed their niece, Etta Gregory. But this was Thomas Higbee's last wish, which strengthened his name to the ground in a way that no one expected.

According to his will, Thomas was buried on the island itself, which he loved so much in the grave lined with brick and the figiga stone. The grave was sealed with a immense marble plate.

But in 1937 his remains were discovered and moved Etta in a cool spring to be next to her, in the act of many residents he quietly considers a solemn mistake. The hotel was demolished in 1940. When the legend goes, disturbing the dead rarely ends well, and Higbee Beach soon gained a novel, undesirable reputation.

A ghostly figure at dusk

When the daylight disappears and the sun falls under the Atlantic, there is talk of a special cool on Higbee beach. Visitors tell about the fleeting flashes of the emaciated, pale man wandering on the shoreline. The descriptions are extremely consistent with the almost radiant gray lightweight. This description was first found in the femininity of her experience in the book: Cape May Ghost Stories from 1988.

His pants were too low and jagged with cuffs, the wing associated with his waist instead of a belt and a grubby, jagged T -shirt adjacent to its spectral form. Sometimes it is described with a long coat. His presence is often accompanied by a immense, black dog, and his eyes shine unnaturally in dusk, quietly at his side.

Some say that this spirit is Thomas Higbee himself, forever doomed to search for a grave from which he was cruelly torn. Some say that his slave observes the grave of his master in his afterlife. The relationship between restless spirits and disturbed burial areas is deep in folklore, and this story is no exception. Locals say that a man in Taters most often appears around dusk, when the border between the worlds softens and the curtain becomes slim.

Immigrants with survivors

There is not only a man who persecute the beach in torn clothes. There are also those who claim that ghosts haunting this place can be from a ship carrying immigrants ashore from Europe. Many died during an accident.

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Some say they have heard screams from water when they walk on the beach. Is it possible that the spirits are still ongoing? Some also speculate that there may be soldiers who lost their lives during a test bombing during the Second World War, who persecute the beach.

Higbee ghost dog

To the ghostly Tableau there is the figure of a black dog – omen of death and misfortune in countless cultures. In Cape May, creature is sometimes called hell, it is said to guard hidden beach secrets: lost victims of the wreck, antique pirate treasury or a tormenting soul of Higbee itself. The dog is always close to a man in shreds, never leaving his side.

The eyewitnesses reported to watch how the man and his dog dissolve in the fog when they approach, leaving no traces in saturated sand.

Even today, long after the hermitage broke up, and the Higbee family has gone into oblivion, the spirit of man in Tatters persists. During the day, the area of wildlife management of wildlife can attract birds and nature lovers, but when the sun immerses low and the air becomes hefty, experienced residents quietly warn visitors so that they do not remain too long after dusk.

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