Haylee Gilmore is a writer, artist, and avid book reader based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Point Park University graduate in the English Creative Writing Program. Her dream goal is to become a fiction ...

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...

DANVERS — After years of neglect to one of the most important sites of the Salem Witch Trials that still stands today, a judge has appointed a receiver to renovate Ingersoll’s Tavern on Hobart Street ...

Long before the hysteria took hold, something was already brewing in Salem. In part one of this deep dive, we explore the ...

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

I visited Salem, Massachusetts, recently with some of my kids. It seemed like an appropriate Halloween kind of trip, despite a lot of the obvious tourist trappings of the town of Salem itself. Like ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops, gift ...

In 1692, the quiet Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts erupted into chaos when fear, suspicion, and religious fervor spiraled into a series of infamous witch trials that left 20 people dead and the ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the most macabre historical story of them all. The history of a small, ...