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Salem Night Tour
Arrive early at Remember Salem on Essex Street. Wynott's Wands, the Ouija Board Museum, and the Halloween Museum are just steps away. The experience begins before the tour itself.
· 15 min
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Introduction
Introduction
· Non-stop passage
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Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Visit the Salem Witch Trials memorial, featuring a series of inscribed stones within the burial ground.
· 10 min
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Charter Street Cemetery
Explore Charter Street Cemetery, established in 1637 and one of Salem's oldest burial grounds. Notably, victims of the witch trials, denied Christian burial, are not interred here.
You will find John Hathorne, the unyielding hanging judge whose legacy profoundly affected his descendant Nathaniel Hawthorne, prompting him to add a 'w' to his name and dedicate his literary career to processing this guilt.
A Mayflower passenger is also laid to rest here.
The cemetery closes at dusk. Guests view it from beyond the iron gates, enhancing its unsettling atmosphere.
· 5 min
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Salem Old Town Hall
Learn about Salem's cinematic history and see a filming location from the iconic movie Hocus Pocus.
· 10 min
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Essex Street Pedestrian Mall
Walk through the heart of historic Salem, a vibrant area filled with shopping, sightseeing, and history.
· Non-stop passage
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Bridget Bishop's Haunting
This location, now home to Turner's Seafood at Lyceum Hall, was the site of Alexander Graham Bell's first public telephone demonstration. It stands on the former property of Bridget Bishop, the first witch executed in Salem.
Hanged in 1692, Bishop's presence is still felt. Ghost hunters have recorded unexplained audio, staff report persistent disturbances in the Bridget Bishop Room upstairs, and her face has been seen in upstairs windows.
This is one of Salem's most documented and genuinely unsettling hauntings. We will share her story, her legacy, and tales of her ghost!
· 5 min
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Dorothy Good's Ghost
Discover the site of Salem's original witch gaol, where the accused were held in dungeon-like conditions awaiting trial.
Among them was four-year-old Dorothy Good, who confessed to witchcraft not out of guilt but to remain with her imprisoned mother. Her mother, Sarah, was executed regardless.
Dorothy spent eight months chained in darkness, alone, until her spirit fell silent. She survived but never recovered. Her ghost is said to still search these grounds for her mother, and visitors with a maternal instinct have reported feeling small hands tugging at their coats and bags in the dark.
The profound weight of this story, on this very ground, is palpable even before the guide finishes recounting it.
· 5 min
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Giles Corey's Curse
We stop near the former Essex County Jail, built in 1813 and the oldest active penitentiary in the United States until its closure in 1991 due to inhumane conditions.
However, this ground holds something older and darker. It was once an open field where Giles Corey was pressed to death in 1692, the only person in American history executed by this method.
Corey refused to enter a plea, and with his dying breath, he cursed the sheriff and the city of Salem. Every sheriff who held office here before the jail's closure reportedly died of heart ailments.
Corey's ghost, sighted before the Salem Great Fire and other calamities, is considered Salem's most feared and malevolent spirit. The Howard Street Cemetery next door contains the graves of prisoners who died within the jail, their headstones marked with skeleton hands pointing skyward.
This is not merely a ghost story; it is Salem's most documented and genuinely feared haunting, and we treat it with the gravity it deserves.
· 10 min
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Saint Peter's Episcopal Church
Behind St. Peter's Church lies a secluded garden rarely discovered by Salem visitors. It is dark, enclosed, and built upon the dead.
The gravestones were relocated to the front when the church was rebuilt in 1833, but the bodies remained beneath.
Beneath your feet lies Philip English, an accused witch, escaped prisoner, and one of Salem's wealthiest and most defiant merchants.
An Anglican among Puritans, English fled to New York in 1692 with his wife Mary to evade execution, returning after the trials to sue Salem for the return of his confiscated property.
He donated this land as a final act of defiance, establishing Salem's first Anglican church directly facing the community that sought to destroy him.
Our guides lead you here after dark, where the stories deepen and the atmosphere becomes more intense.
· 5 min
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Gardner Pingree House
In 1830, Captain Joseph White, a wealthy sea captain and slave trader, was murdered in his sleep inside this Federal-style mansion on Essex Street.
A hired assailant entered through an open window. The subsequent trial captivated the nation and inspired Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' with direct echoes of the prosecution's speech in the story's most famous lines.
The murder is also believed to have inspired Parker Brothers to rebrand the British board game Cluedo as Clue.
Witnesses continue to report ghostly apparitions in the windows and unexplained footsteps within the house. This is one of Salem's most significant and most haunted addresses.
· 5 min
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