I’ve heard of creepypasta, but this is ridiculous.
Sorry.
Anyway, the country has been captivated by a mystery taking place in the New Jersey woods, where literally hundreds of pounds – estimated to be as much as 500 – of cooked pasta was dumped near a river basin in Old Bridge.
It’s a baffling sight, seeing all this pasta – mostly spaghetti and macaroni – left in gigantic piles in the middle of the woods. It begs so many questions: Who put it here? How did someone get nearly 15 wheelbarrow loads of pasta out here in the first place? Why is it all cooked? And what would Tony Soprano have to say about something like this? What if Paulie Walnuts tripped over one of these mounds and hurt himself while disposing of a body in those same woods?
Nobody seems to have many good answers, though there are plenty of theories floating around. One with a lot of traction involves a Ring security camera catching a man in an Old Bridge neighborhood cleaning out quite a bit of uncooked pasta from his deceased mother’s house.
According to neighbors, the man was perhaps overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of pasta that his mother hoarded and simply dumped it near a stream to avoid doing anything else with it.
But this only invites more questions that get us no closer to solving the mystery. Why was the pasta in the woods cooked, then? Did this man really cook hundreds of pounds of pasta, only to carry it all to the woods to be dumped? And how was that not caught on the Ring camera? Why wouldn’t the man just donate what he could from the unopened boxes or simply throw it all away in the garbage?
This mystery has rocked Old Bridge – a town of about 66,000 people about 25 miles from Manhattan – to its core. The incident was originally posted in a Facebook group by Nina Jochnowitz, who ran for city council in Old Bridge, using the opportunity to bash the town’s mayor for ignoring the mess. Jochnowitz says she didn’t intend for the story to go viral like this, but you can never miss a good chance to bass political leadership and score a few points for yourself.
Like all Facebook group posts, it sparked a wildfire of comments from residents, eventually becoming a nationwide conspiracy. Updated articles will try to tell you that the mystery has been solved because some armchair sleuths claim to have evidence through home security footage. And while the pasta has since been cleaned up, we’re no closer to truly knowing how it got there in the first place.
We might never known the truth of how nearly 500 pounds of pasta ended up in the New Jersey woods. The only thing we know for sure at this point is that this incident adds Old Bridge to the long list of mysterious U.S. towns.
