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

From the infamous Amityville Horror House to the Villisca Axe Murder House, the US is home to some horrifying houses with ...

Italy is known as one of Europe's most romantic countries, but it's also home to some of the most haunted places on the ...

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

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

More specifically, that means the Salem witch trials of 1692, wherein young women were convicted of being something that does not actually exist. More than a dozen of them were hung but that has ...

Inquisition After Dark, on October 19, 26 and 31, gives visitors (18 and over) the chance to navigate winding corridors concealing sinister characters and edge-of-the-seat trials (tickets (£16.26 ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...