The Piscatawaytown Burial Ground stands in Edison, New Jersey as one of the oldest and most historically significant cemeteries in Middlesex County, with documented burial activity beginning in 1693 and continuing through multiple centuries of American history. The cemetery represents not merely a repository for human remains but a palimpsest of American social history, containing graves of individuals from diverse backgrounds, time periods, and social circumstances, each representing moments in the long history of settlement, conflict, growth, and development characterizing this region. The earliest graves date to the closing years of the seventeenth century, when European colonization of New Jersey was still relatively recent and the region represented a frontier with all its dangers, uncertainties, and opportunities. The cemetery subsequently expanded through the eighteenth century to encompass graves of Revolutionary War soldiers, whose participation in American independence struggles brought death and permanent commitment to New Jersey ground. The nineteenth century witnessed additions from the Civil War era and expansion of the surrounding community, with the cemetery functioning as physical repository of community identity and spatial marker of mortality. The historical narrative of Piscatawaytown Burial Ground became inseparable from Mary Moore, a woman whose life circumstances and apparent spiritual power generated documentation of witchcraft accusations in 1731, when such accusations maintained considerable social power and could result in ostracism, legal punishment, and potentially death. Mary Moore apparently possessed knowledge of herbal medicine, spiritual practices, or forms of esoteric wisdom that generated fear in her community. Whatever the basis of accusations against her, Mary Moore became legendary in local paranormal tradition, and her grave has become the focal point of ghost lore and paranormal investigation. According to widespread local tradition, individuals who walk around Mary Moore's grave three times risk summoning her apparition and incurring her spiritual wrath. Witnesses have reported seeing her ghostly form, particularly during nighttime hours and on dates associated with witchcraft history or anniversaries of her accusation and death. The cemetery ground has produced reports of paranormal phenomena extending beyond Mary Moore to encompass the broader population of interred dead. Visitors have documented consistent appearance of apparitions associated with Revolutionary War soldiers, suggesting those who died in service to American independence have become spiritually invested in the location where their mortal remains rest. These military apparitions appear in period-appropriate uniforms and carry themselves with military bearing, sometimes observed standing sentinel-like over graves or wandering in patterns suggesting disorientation or deliberate patrol. Physical sensations at the cemetery include unexplained touches, sudden temperature drops, and powerful sense of being observed by unseen presences. Auditory phenomena include voices, footsteps, and sounds of military movement occurring when no living personnel are present. The cemetery contains graves of individuals from a Civil War general to two brothers whose deaths resulted from mushroom poisoning, and British soldiers possibly interred following military engagements. The multiplicity of deaths through different causes and historical periods appears to have created concentration of paranormal activity, suggesting the boundary between the living community of Edison and spiritual residents has grown thin and permeable. Piscatawaytown Burial Ground continues to function as an active cemetery where new burials occur, while simultaneously serving as one of New Jersey's most documented paranormal locations.