Ghost tour in Salem
Run by Spellbound Tours
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The listing bills “real hauntings, real history” and says the guide is a licensed paranormal investigator and historian who shares ghost photographs from their investigations and shows how to photograph anomalies. Topics range from Giles Corey and Tituba to vampire folklore, Houdini, and Hocus Pocus. The listing calls it family friendly, though several stories are gruesome. It suits anyone who wants a wide mix of Salem topics rather than ghosts alone.
1.5 hrFrom $28★ 4.9 · 2,087 reviews
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Places
Restaurant
An 1867 history puts Bridget Bishop's orchard on the ground under Lyceum Hall. Turner's Seafood, the restaurant there now, says the ghost of Bishop, the first person hanged in the 1692 witch trials, still haunts and oversees the building.
Other
Salem's oldest surviving town building went up in 1816 and 1817 where merchant Elias Derby's mansion stood, and legend has it Derby's ghost haunts it, still unhappy that his house was torn down.
Other
A plaque on Federal Street marks where Salem's 1692 jail held people accused of witchcraft. The Salem Night Ghost Tour says one of them, four-year-old Dorothy Good, still searches the ground for her mother.
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.
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