diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3de5cb29..7e1d93e5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Updated
 - Bumped the Electron dependency to v3.0.13 to support the most recent Raspbian. [#1500](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1500)
 - Updated modernizr code in alert module, fixed a small typo there too
+- More verbose error message on console if the config is malformed
 
 ### Fixed
 - Fixed temperature displays in currentweather and weatherforecast modules [#1503](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1503), [#1511](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1511).
diff --git a/js/app.js b/js/app.js
index bfec5baf..95c9693b 100644
--- a/js/app.js
+++ b/js/app.js
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ var App = function() {
 			if (e.code == "ENOENT") {
 				console.error(Utils.colors.error("WARNING! Could not find config file. Please create one. Starting with default configuration."));
 			} else if (e instanceof ReferenceError || e instanceof SyntaxError) {
-				console.error(Utils.colors.error("WARNING! Could not validate config file. Please correct syntax errors. Starting with default configuration."));
+				console.error(Utils.colors.error("WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: " + e.stack));
 			} else {
 				console.error(Utils.colors.error("WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: " + e));
 			}