Photos from 2002, 2003, & 2005
Indian Cabin Road is yet another road that has stories of shotgun-wielding hicks driving black pick-ups and satanic groups worshipping along it. Indian Cabin is a very plain road…partially paved but mostly dirt. There are 2 points of interest on the road, and the funny part is technically they’re not on Indian Cabin. The road changes its name to Naegeli Street after a while, and that is where our oddities are found. The first is the Shaler Grave. The second and more well-known is the “satanic church”, which really is nothing more than a shrine at an abandoned boy scout camp.
I’m appalled as to what’s happened to the camp since my last visit 2 years ago. Back then the camp was unused but someone lived in the building and took care of the place. He even gave a friend of the site permission to take a few pictures of some of the buildings, including the shrine on the camp property. Nobody lives there now, and the place has been destroyed. Windows and glass doors have been broken. Every building has been vandalized.
A really bad old pic of what was a saint statue at the front of the property.
Now look at it. The statue is completely gone, with the pedestal smashed.
Here’s the front of the shrine a few years ago.
(Photo by Janet)
…and now.
This building, which was collapsing on itself, has since been demolished.
(Photo by Janet)
i went there at night with a couple of friends n i saw 3 kids all in black,wit pure white faces,i looked again and they were gone i no wat i saw n i did not like it at all.i never got scared like that in my life….is there any history of that place being haunted???????
MY BOYFRIEND AND I DROVE DOWN INDIAN CABIN RD. A FEW TIMES AND NEVER CAME ACROSS ”THE SCHALER GRAVE” OR THE SATANIC SHRINE THATS MENTIONED. IT IS A VERY SCARY LONG ROAD, EVEN IN THE DAYTIME. CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHERE NAEGELI STREET STARTS AND WHERE TO FIND THESE POINTS OF INTEREST…
Looks like the buildings have been destroyed. Last time I was there (about a year ago) they put up new no trespassing signs and made serious attempts to block off all ways of getting to them. The latest image on Google Earth shows everything as being ruins.
Natelie…. I know you asked a very long time ago but I would like to let you know that Naegeli Street is now called Oken Street… it starts as West Indian Cabin Road crosses Bremen Ave… Oken heads toward Egg Harbor City Lake and goes off to the left… you will see Boston St making a right… take that and as the road turns it becomes Indian Cabin Road…. it is also around this turn that the grave can be found (in the woods). I;ve not been there but with my past experiences in the pine barrens… there are usually markers painted in the street showing where to look for things….. have fun!
Peace!
Oh and about the damage… kids suck…
Great site!
My friends and I visited Indian Cabin Road back in 2002 when we were still in HS in Tuckerton NJ. We had read all about it & grew up hearing stories.
During our adventure we saw the grave of Mrs. Sibbel Shaler & her infant children, the Satanic church with the bloody statue out front, another grave that was unable to be read at the time, and oddly enough a house that looked as if it had been built entirely out of Lincoln logs. I assume it is gone because I cannot find any mention of it to this day. One of my friends took photos which I’m sure she still has somewhere (The time before cell phones were big). I’d love to see them again. It’s quite sad what has happened to this place since the public has become more aware of it.
During our trip while we were outside looking at one of the sites, we did hear something awful in the woods & that’s when we decided to hightale out of there. The roads were dirt & very narrow, leaving many scratch marks on my friend’s car at the time.
Just thought I’d share!