Malevendra's Pool
- MALEVENDRA'S POOL - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on a 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in a book, "Refuges From An Imaginary Country," by Darrell Schweitzer, published by Ganley-Owlswick in 1999.
I went to my local library book sale recently and was surprised to find a book titled, "Haunted Jersey Shore," by Charles Stansfield, Jr. I've lived near the NJ shore for most of my life and I find it strange that I never heard of, or read about any beach-combing ghosts in NJ before. The book is sub-titled, "Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State Coast". The contents page lists 80 weird sightings, and one sighting in particular caught my eye, "The Ghost of Mary Rogers". . .
On July 28, 1841, the body of pretty Mary Rogers was found floating just off shore in the Hudson River along a Hoboken riverfront resort where the first-ever baseball game was played. She had been sexually abused and beaten to death.
Mary Rogers had worked at a newspaper stand near several NY newspaper offices and all the reporters new her. They made her murder a sensational daily headline story. Her boyfriend, Donald Payne was arrested and grilled, and when he was released for lack of evidence that he was the murderer, he committed suicide near the area where Mary's body had been found. The man who murdered Mary Rogers was never found.
An obscure writer living in the area wrote a fictionalized version of the murder, but he changed the locale to Paris, France, changed her name to Mary Roget, and titled the story, "The Mystery of Mary Roget". It has been called the first modern mystery story and it made the writer famous. His name was Edgar Allan Poe.
According to the book, the ghost of Mary Rogers still haunts the Hoboken riverfront.
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