Check out our list of movies (and a TV show) that take place in and around Salem for the perfect Halloween vibes.

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

Long before the Mather family moved to Wisconsin and Channing Mather began cheese production in Sheboygan County, his ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

Like many during the Salem witch trials, the girls’ youth reflects the vulnerability of those targeted. Photograph by Bridgeman Images This title page of a 1693 witch hunt pamphlet by Cotton Mather, a ...

“A lot of tours will focus on just the witch trials or just ghost stories. We combine so our travelers will learn about our maritime history. They’ll also do a deep dive into the Salem witch ...

Well, Salem in October comes pretty close ... family-friendly events for guests who were interested in visiting the “Witch City,” the website said. "Following the first festival’s success ...

West Salem High School and other nearby schools were placed on lockdown Friday afternoon after Salem-Keizer Public Schools and law enforcement received unconfirmed reports that a student with a ...