Check out our list of movies and shows that take place in and around Salem for the perfect Halloween vibes. Hocus Pocus ...

While the movie bombed on its release ... Two memorials mark the witch trials: the stone Salem Witch Trials Memorial in ...

Kirstie Alley leads an all-star cast in a drama recalling the 1692 Puritan witch-hunt that tarnished the Massachusetts village. Rev. Samuel Parris: Henry Czerny. Rebecca Nurse: Shirley MacLaine.

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

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

her trial technically wasn't part of the Salem witch trials. Her trial has a few similarities to the real-life Salem witch trials, but the biggest difference is that it has a huge impact.

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

With Halloween only weeks away, fans of the spooky season have already been diving deep into their favorite movies and TV series that honor the holiday. John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s Halloween is ...

While best known for its notorious witch trials in the late ... 2.5 hours Fan of the Disney movie "Hocus Pocus?" Here's your chance to run "amuck" around Salem. The tour takes film lovers to ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

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

If you're heading to Salem, you should set aside some time for a visit to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Built to honor the victims who died during the 1692 witchcraft hysteria, the memorial ...