Decades before Salem, Connecticut was the centre of US witch trials. A new statewide haunted history trail connects the towns ...

The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn't until 2022 that the last woman ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 In her startling new movie “Witches,” Elizabeth Sankey draws a line from witch ...

If you could sit down to dinner in Salem in 1692, the menu might be more familiar than you'd expect. There would have been ...

Some historical events are so disturbing and unfathomable that we tend to process them as fiction. Among the most unsettling are the Salem Witch Trials, which led to the execution of 20 people (15 ...

Salem’s witch trials inspire 6 fall reads loved by Goodreads readers, blending history and suspense. Arthur Miller’s The ...

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will bring history, scholarship, storytelling and horror together this fall with its 2026 Salem Witch Trials event series, featuring a student research e ...

The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes. Taking place in 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...