In Edison, New Jersey… two brothers thought they could steal a witch’s grave. Her name was Mary Moore. Locals said if you walked around her tomb three times and spat — she’d appear.

But the Porubsky brothers didn’t stop at a dare. In the 1970s, they pried her headstone loose and took it home… laughing. Days later — one brother was killed in a car accident on Route 27. The other, shaken, destroyed the stone and buried the pieces.

No one ever found them.
And the original marker for Mary Moore — the Witch of Edison — vanished forever. There isn’t much information on the Porubsky brothers…but they were real. Their names still show up in local forums and in the collective and in individual memories.

And they say… if you visit the old Piscatawaytown Burial Ground tonight, and listen closely, you’ll hear her calling them back. and this is The New Jersey History Podcast.
Where Jersey’s past… never really stays buried.

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