If you're heading to Salem, you should set aside some time for a visit to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Built to honor the ...

On July 19, 1692, five women accused of witchcraft were publicly hanged from a tree on a rocky ledge in Salem, Massachusetts. The grisly event would mark the first of three mass executions held during ...

Tour guides and a Western Massachusetts professor say the stories of the 1692 witch trials remain relevant more than three ...

This historic Massachusetts city brings the fall spirit to life with haunted sites, witchy tales, Halloween festivities, and ...

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, ...

The Massachusetts community where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 unveiled a memorial to 19 of those victims on Wednesday, promising never to forget the tragedy. The ...

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four ...

More than 300 years after the conclusion of the Salem witch trials, a class of middle-school students has helped exonerate the sole remaining woman legally classified as a witch. Originally expected ...

Wardall said 107 people were executed and 47 died in prison in Essex between 1542 and 1736; during the infamous Salem witch ...