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Suspect a ghost? bright on things usually left to tory of Hauntings.’” in the dark of night. I recognized the reference Collectus Obscurium bump It all starts like a lot of other to the 2018 article in which I will investigate mystery and ghost stories with recounted ghostly tales from By Dan AUBrey
“Who you gonna call?” if you’re a paranormal investigator looking for a haunted site in the Princeton-Trenton region? The answer to the song from the original Ghostbusters movie seems to be me. That’s the lesson I learned that led to this timely fall season article—when the spotlight gets
an out-of-the-blue message—in this case an e-mail sent to my office account. The subject line was “Trenton Hauntings.” At first I was tempted to delete it. However, since I am generally open for business regarding subjects for articles on local goings on, I took a breath, opened the message, and read the following: “I have just read your article ‘Ghost Writings: Trenton’s His-
around the region and then continued: The writer then continued. “I am a Trenton resident and a paranormal investigator (Collectus Obscurium Paranormal) and found your writing to be very compelling. “Do any of these locations allow for organizations like mine to do formal investigations? I would love to get into the closed See PARANORMAL, Page 6
O’Neal finds a niche Ewing musician sees success performing Irish music
Twins Nick (left) and Anthony Genovesi both play on the Ewing High School boys’ soccer team. For more on DePaz and the team, turn to Page 13. (Photo by Rich Fisher.)
musicianship. O’Neal was 29 or 30 when he was hired to play an Irish pub near the Red Bank train station, after being introduced to the place by fellow Trenton-area singer-songwriter Frank Pinto. By RicharD J. SkeLLy “I played in Trenton a lot over the years, but it was mostly in Like many Trenton-New duos and smaller groups. (VetHope-Princeton corridor musi- eran area bluesman Joe Zuccians, it took a while for Ewing carello) and I grew up in the guitarist-balladeer Bill O’Neal same neighborhood [in Ewing] Front-page ad: to find his niche, but once he and we went through school Do youitknow your up Lipoprotein(a) level? did, opened dozens of new together,” O’Neal recalls. doors and new venues for his Pinto, who also happens to See page xxx to learn more and how to get tested. Logo:
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be Zuccarello’s cousin, was playing at the pub in the early 1980s. O’Neal says, “He needed a ride for one of his gigs, so he ended up helping me get a gig at the Dubliner Pub (now the Dublin House).” “I ended up getting my own gig at the Dubliner, and (the patrons) wanted to hear nothing but Irish songs. I didn’t know that many at the time, so I just kept learning new ones, and the owner at that time See O’NEAL, Page 10
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