Ghostbusting gone Bust

So what happened when four 20-something year old asian guys went hunting for ghosts? Apparently not a whole lot beside driving.

Jan and Matt had the brilliant idea of checking out some haunted place thanks to Weird NJ. After much debating and sort of finding directions, the four of us were off. We started the journey around midnight with James as navigator, me driving, and Jan & Matt in the back hyping themselves up for the adventure. We roughly got to the area the suppose haunted burnt down elementary school from the 1920s was but it being dark and my inability to actually want to do it, eventually led us to give up… but I have to mention this was two hours after we initially started the adventure, and getting lost a few times. The area where the school was suppose to be didn’t look very un-civilized and I think would have been impossible to search around without getting the nearby neigbhors calling the cops on us. Plus, there was just no f*cking way I was going to search in the forest in the middle of the night with little to no light. Finally giving up on the haunted school idea, we decided to head back…

… but with me as driver, things got tricky as we didn’t really know the area. Eventually at one point, we spotted a 7-11 so stopped to get some eats and maybe find a bathroom. As soon as we got out of the car, another car parked nearby us and the two people in it asked for directions to go back to NJ. The guys and I were all thinking, “what weirdos, aren’t we in NJ?” only to find out that we’re actually in PA! Now that was as slight shocker since we never saw any signs saying such… anyway, we got some food and headed back out… only to stop randomly in Ewing thinking the College of NJ would have been relatively close to the exit we got off of. Well, it wasn’t… and Matt and I really had to take a leak. One pulling over to some dark street later and we’re back on the road much relieved and trying to find I-95. Somehow, we found the route and were safety on our merry way back home.

The total journey took about four and an half hours. We ended up just in PA and when we actually got back to NJ, was near Trenton and Camden. I don’t know how and why we ended up where we were but driving the whole time sucked, especially since I had no idea where we’re going.

I also learned that Jan and Matt’s ideas weren’t so great when one wasn’t as gun-ho as them about the ideas. James and I were a bit more realistic about what we may or may not have found, unlike our two excited friends in the back seats. And this has marked the first and last time I ever drive on this type of “adventure” without solid directions or actual game plan!

Oh yea, forgot to mention the more inbetweens while trying to initially find the town the school was in. At one point we just decided to take some random “spooky” roads and boy, let me tell you driving down roads in like the boondocks of NJ was scary as hell! Roads barely useable, no sight of civlization, and miles upon miles of just empty landscape was freaky at night. You don’t know how much I just wanted to gas the car and jet our sorry arses out of those areas if it wasn’t for the fact a deer might come out of nowhere!

Anyone out there have interesting stories like this that actually went well? Kind of pitiful nothing “exciting” happened in this trip so I wonder if others have had better successes compared to us.

Photos from the outing.