TRIALS.
>> 1692, ACCUSED OF SUNDRY ACTS OF WITCHCRAFT.
ANTHONY: SALEM, A CITY CLOAKED IN GRIM HISTORY AND GO STORIES SPARKED BY AN UNPLEASANT ERA IN OUR COUNTRY’S PAST.
>> THERE WERE 19 INNOCENT MEN AND WOMEN EXECUTED FOR WITCHCRAFT.
THEY WERE PULLED FROM THEIR FAMILIES, PUT INTO THIS DUNGEON AND HANGED PUBLICLY.
THAT WILL LEAVE A SCAR ON THE LOCATION.
ANTHONY: THE AUTHOR OF GHOSTS OF SALEM.
>> THERE IS A GHOST STORY ASSOCIATED WITH A BUILDING IN SALEM ANYWHERE.
ANTHONY: INCLUDING THE CHARTER STREET BURIAL GROUND.
>> IT IS KNOWN AS A VERY HAUNTED SPOT.
THERE IS A REPORT OF A WOMAN IN MEDIUM WHITES WHO APPEARS NEAR THE SARAH CORRIE GRAVE.
SHE WAS THE SECOND WIFE TO A MAN WHO WAS PROSECUTED OVER TWO DAYS.
ANTHONY: THE ENERGY LEFT FROM THE PROSECUTION LURKS CENTURIES LATER.
>> IF YOU WERE PRESSED TO THAT, WOULDN’T YOU SAY -- ANTHONY: ABUTTING THE WITCH MEMORIAL STANDS A HOUSE WHERE YOUR TREATMENT -- EERIE ENTITIES MAY STILL RESIDE.
>> THIS HOUSE DATES BACK TO THE 1600S.
SOMEONE WAS TAKING PHOTOS AND SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE A GHOSTLY FACE.
PEOPLE SAY IT IS A NEGATIVE ENERGY ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOUSE.
ANTHONY: MORE NEGATIVE ENERGY MAKES THIS AN EASY ON ESSEX STREET.
HE SAID SOMETHING SINISTER WAS LURKING IN THE BOOKS.
>> IT LOOKS LIKE A SHADOW FIGURE.
THEY HAVE BEEN SPOTTED UP AND DOWN THE STREET AREA DIFFERENT BUSINESSES HAVE SEEN OR REPORTED SEEING SHADOW FIGURES.
IT IS NOT GOOD.
SIGNIFIES SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN CONJURED.
ED: DENISE DOESN’T FEEL UNEASY, BUT IS IT HAUNTED?
>> THIS BUILDING IS 200 YEARS OLD.
IN THIS HISTORIC CITY WHERE HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPENED, I WOULD SAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
ANTHONY: NOTHING PECULIAR IN THE BOOKSTORE IN ITSELF, BUT A TRIP TO THE BASEMENT DOES REVEAL AN ODDITY.
HE SAYS THESE ARE SEALED OFF TUNNELS.
>> THIS IS A TUNNEL UNDERNEATH ONE OF THE FIREPLACES.
ANTHONY: IT GOT THE ATTENTION OF PARANORMAL INVESTIGATORS.
ONE OF THEM FELT A WARM, WELCOMING PRESENCE.
BUT THE SENSATIONS SHIFTED.
>> HE FELT HANDS AROUND HIS NECK.
I HAVE NEVER FELT THAT.
ANTHONY: PERHAPS THEY WERE OUT THEIR WELCOME -- WORE THEIR WELCOME.
BASED ON AN ENCOUNTER HE CLAIMS HE HAS HAD WITH THE GHOST OF BRIDGET BISHOP, THE FIRST WOMAN HANGED FOR WITCHCRAFT IN 1692.
>> WHEN I FIRST ARE GIVING TOURS , THIS WAS WHERE HER TAVERN WAS.
I SAID, SHE WAS A TAVERN OWNER.
AN APPLE MYSTERIOUSLY ROLLED FROM THE CORNER UP TO ME.
THERE ARE NO APPLE TREES HERE.
I FOUND OUT LATER THIS ACTUALLY WAS HER APPLE ORCHARD.
SHE WAS LETTING ME KNOW I GOT THE INFORMATION INCORRECT.
ANTHONY: SPIRITS COULD ALSO BE AT PLAY CLOSE BY.
>> I MYSELF LAST WEEK SAW THE BED WARMERS IN THE TWO BEDROOMS ON TWO DIFFERENT DAYS START CIRCLING ON THEIR OWN.
NO AIR-CONDITIONING GOING ON, PEOPLE STANDING ON THE BOARDS, JUST STARTED CIRCLING.
I WAS LIKE OK, BYE.
WE WILL SHARE THE SPACE.
ANTHONY: THERE IS MORE.
>> A DOOR HAS OPENED AND CLOSED BY ITSELF.
SOMEONE ELSE ALONE, THE PICTURES TELL OFF THE WALL AT THE SAME TIME.
ANTHONY: THERE IS A PERCEPTION THE HOUSE WAS HOME TO WITCHES.
>> IS THE 17TH CENTURY HOME OF JONATHAN CORWIN, ONE OF THE JUDGES DURING THE TRIALS.
ANTHONY: THIS PERSON SAYS IT IS UNLIKELY THE WITCHES CAN’T THE HOUSE BUT RATHER THE SPIRITS OF A DIFFERENT TRAGEDY.
>> ELIZABETH WARREN GAVE EARTH TO FOUR CHILDREN AND THEN IN THIS HOUSE 10 MORE, SO 14 TOTAL THE ONLY FOUR OF THE SURVIVED.
THERE WAS A LOT OF GRIEF AND SORROW BECAUSE SHE LOST 10 CHILDREN.
MUCH OF THAT WOULD BE ABSORBED BY THE WALLS.
ANTHONY: 10 FEDERAL STREET APPEARS TO BE A STANDARD OFFICE BUILDING, BUT SOMETHING WICKED MAY LINGER DEEP IN THE FOUNDATION.
>> THIS BUILDING IS ON THE SITE OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SALEM JAIL IN 1692.
IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE A LOT OF VICTIMS OF FROM THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS WERE HELD TEMPORARILY, JAILED, AND THAT ALSO HELD BEFORE THEIR EXECUTION DATES.
ANTHONY: THE SPRAWLING PROPERTY INVOLVED, THE JAIL REPLACED BY A PRIVATE HOME.
THAT HOME LATER DEMOLISHED TO BUILD THE PRESENT-DAY STRUCTURE.
PORTIONS OF THE OLD DUNGEONS WERE DISCOVERED DEEP IN THE GROUND.
>> PEOPLE COULD SAY THEY FEATURE PARANORMAL ACTIVITY BUT WE FOCUS ON THE HISTORY.
THIS WAS A PLACE WHERE SOME PEOPLE WERE UPSET ABOUT THE FACT THEY WERE BEING ACCUSED OF SOMETHING THEY DIDN’T DO.
ANTHONY: WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IN THE SUPERNATURAL OR A SKEPTIC, OUR GUIDES SAY IT IS TOUGH TO DENY THE INTRIGUE OF SALEM’S HAUNTED STORIES.
>> SALEM IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A CITY EMBRACING ITS DARKER