Salem witches

Personal effects of a "mad genius" by Craig Conley

The first person to be convicted for witchcraft crimes and hanged for it in colonial America was Alice ‘Alse’ Young, a resident of Windsor, Connecticut.

The brutality of the events in Massachusetts saw innocent lives lost, but also shocked the continent against further persecutions

The Salem witch trials (1692–93) were a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted ‘witches’ to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were part of a long story of witch hunts that began in Europe in the 14th century.

Plan your visit to the largest display of Ouija and Talking Boards in the world. Located in historic Salem, Mass. the Salem Witch Board Museum is home to hundreds of boards spanning over a century. Will you speak to the dead? Find out your future? Or is it just a silly game? Come and see!