I've actually never heard of that kind of thing up there. Geez --- and I go camping up near there. Well --- probably not too many Mescaleros in New Jersey at any rate.
I remember once a car went off the road into a deep wash. They found the car and the headless body of the driver next to it. They searched the car and the wash for hours looking for the head and couldn't find it. Just as they concluded that some ghoul had cut it off and taken it for a souvenir someone glanced up. The grinning head was staring down at them from a fork in a tree branch. The driver had been thrown from the car and as his body flew through the air the fork had caught him by neck and popped his head off.