The Salem Witch Museum is perfect for first-time visitors to Salem. Founded in 1972, this museum offers two types of presentations: One is an immersive narration of the 1692 Salem witch trials ...

As the leaves on the trees gradually turn to hues of yellow, orange and red the arrival of autumn brings with it New England traditions such as apple picking, fall fairs and the fall harvest. Autumn ...

A USA Today analysis of online reviews slammed the Witch City destination in an examination of the top 500 tourist attractions in the world SALEM — The story of how the Salem Witch Museum was named ...

The Salem Witch Museum, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Witch City, is defending is reputation after USA Today named it the second biggest tourist trap in the world. “Some people ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem's modern culture. The city's association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's "Hocus Pocus" to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...

It is among the darker chapters in American colonial history: In the spring of 1692, three girls in Salem, Massachusetts, came forward claiming to be possessed by the devil and accused several local ...

SALEM — The Peabody Essex Museum will be opening its newest ongoing exhibition Saturday – “The Salem Witch Trials: 1692”, which features authentic objects and documents that are hoped to provide ...

The 527 documents include transcripts of testimony and examinations, depositions, warrants for apprehension, and other legal papers. In this image provided by the Peabody Essex Museum, Lynda Roscoe ...

Frances F. Denny's portraits: "Keavy (Brooklyn, NY)" (left) and "Leonore (Montpelier, VT)" (right). (Courtesy of the artist and ClampArt, New York, NY) “Witch” is a term that is sometimes used as an ...

"The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming" is on view at the New-York Historical Society. Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr), 1869. Collection of the New-York Historical ...

Hundreds of court documents from the 1692 Salem Witch Trials are being transferred from the Salem museum where they have been stored for more than four decades to the newly expanded Judicial Archives ...