Ghost tour in Salem
Run by Salem Historical Tours, LLC
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The listing says this tour sticks to ghost and paranormal accounts, drawn from residents’ experiences and investigators’ research. It says the tour does not discuss the 1692 witchcraft trials (the operator points history seekers to another tour). Stops include the Ropes Mansion garden, Charter Street Cemetery, the Witch House, the Merchant Hotel, and the Gardner-Pingree House. It is a ghost-first walk for guests who want documented-haunting stories and, per the listing, analysis of any ghost photos they take.
1.5 hrFrom $30★ 4.0 · 484 reviews
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Places
House
In April 1830, an intruder came in through a back window in the night and murdered Captain Joseph White in his bed here, the Salem Gazette reported. Local lore says his footsteps are still heard and a child in white looks out of a downstairs window.
House
The Ropes Mansion's front played a part in Disney's Hocus Pocus in 1993. Abigail Ropes died in the house in 1839 when her dress caught fire, according to The Salem News, and guides say she lingers in its rooms.
Bar
Rockafellas fills the 1826 First Church building on Essex Street, and its co-owners told CBS Boston that a ghost they call the Lady in Blue first showed up on the restaurant's computer screen, two days before the computer died.
Hotel
The Merchant hotel fills the Joshua Ward House, built on the foundation of witch-trial sheriff George Corwin's house. Popular tradition blames Corwin for making it Salem's most haunted, though the Salem Witch Museum counts that among the 'numerous myths' about him.
Cemetery
Salem's oldest burying ground, laid out in 1637, holds witch-trial judge John Hathorne, and the woman in white said to walk among its stones is Mary Corey, first wife of Giles Corey, as the Boston Globe told it in 2018.
House
Often called the only building still standing with direct ties to the 1692 witch trials, Judge Jonathan Corwin's house is still open to visitors.
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