The Witch House

Obviously with the Salem witch trials, stuff like that.

They've got the picture of the Witch House here, which they say is haunted.

Um, you know, we, we've done a couple ghost tours in Salem.

Some have been good, some have been eh.

Go visit the, um, Rebecca Nurse homestead over in Danvers.

Go to the Corwin House.

They call it the Witch House, but that's another 17th century house that was lived in by one of the judges.

And definitely, if you go to Salem, go to the two memorials.

Was up there v- visiting a very dear friend of mine, and we decided to, to go through the, the tour of Salem.

You know, we both had an interest in history, and figured, well, what better way to, to spend a, an evening, uh, as to just go through old town Salem? So went, did all the, all the touristy things, including the Witch House, which has an interesting connection that, that I'll reveal towards the end.

And going through, decided, well, let's, let's go to Gallows Hill Park just to, to see where the, uh, they, they had actually hung those that were convicted of witchcraft at the time.

And the interesting thing was we got there, it felt very off, very strange.

No, it's, it's gone now.

Don't mess with that." [laughs] So it turned into a rather an interesting evening in that regard.

But something that I, I, I think ties all of this in, especially, uh, the, the, the Salem witch house, which is, uh, one of the prosecute... well, one of the judges during witch trials, uh, that's Jonathan Corwin.

I, I'm descended of Jonathan Corwin and John Proctor, who was one of the men executed for witchcraft.

Mm.

Um, and we do a night of ritual in the Witch House, which is, like, the last standing building from the, the, the actual, like, Salem Witch trials.

Um, and, uh, a market and a big cabaret with drag and burlesque performers and costume party.

It's amazing.

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the black house you were talking about is actually 310 essex street and it's called the witch house I actually think it's kind of nice.

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Definitely.

The building was in the Corwin family until about 1836 when it was purchased by Sarah Cushing.

In 1851, Sarah sold it to a pharmacist and they were the first one to call it the witch house.

In the 1900s, it was divided up into apartments and businesses.

It's from the 1600s.

The place... that was investigated on television was the Witch House, which is an actual house from the 1600s.

That was one of the judges in the Salem Witch Trials.

And that was on Ghost Adventures.