Ghost Stories
Witch House Musem - Jonathon Corwin House
Home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, the "Witch House" is known to be the only structure still standing in Salem with direct ties to the Witchcraft Trials of 1692. Corwin was a local magistrate and civic leader who was called upon to investigate and judge the assertions of local townspeople who were accused of having specific ties to the devil, also known in Salem at that time as 'witchcraft'.
He served on the Court of Oyer and Terminer resulting of the deaths of nineteen innocent citizens that were at the wrong place in the wrong time. To this day, all nineteen people put to death maintain their innocence and are memorialized as wrongful victims and heroes of that time. Several visitors experience a form of residual energy upon immediately setting foot inside the house. They are overcome with feelings of anger, anxiety and fear. In the dining room as well as the upstairs main bedroom the ghost of a woman has been witnessed. She seems to be distressed, going about her business oblivious to the living touring what is assumed to be her home. Others have seen a man and woman 'ghost couple' dressed in period clothing walking around the grounds disappearing into thin air. From the office, employees claimed to have heard sounds of shuffling, footsteps and furniture being dragged across the floor when the house is closed and empty.
Witch Memorial
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel dedicated the Witch Memorial in August 1992 as part of the Salem Witch Trials TerCentenary, 300 years after the last innocent victim was put to death during the Witch Hysteria. It is located on the corner of Chart and Front Streets right next to the Old Burying Point Cemetery. Existing within the low man-made stone walls of the Memorial are 20 granite slabs illustrated with the names of each accused, innocent victim and the method and date of their demise. Visitors walking near or through the Memorial to the Old Burying Point Cemetery feel an overpowering sensation of oppression, fear and sadness. People say they have been touched and others have seen apparitions of women dressed as Puritans from the 1600s. It's alleged that the feelings of dread visitors experience as well as the ghostly touches are the victims from the Witch Hysteria reaching out, crying for help and to be saved. Another common occurrence people associate in this area to paranormal activity is equipment malfunctions. Cameras, video camera, phones and other electrical devices are apt to shut down on their own, jam instead of taking photos, brand new batteries perpetually die and if photos and video are successful there is usually an anomaly captured.
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