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Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tours & Salem Historical Tours Salem’s Premiere Walking Tour Company is home to Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour – Salem’s origin Got Ghosts? We do. Witch Walk. Call for details.
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Come to Salem Historical Tours and take one of daily tours. We have an 1130 am General History tour, a 1 p.m. Witchcraft Walk, a 2:30 pm Ghost Tour and a 4 p.m. At night, we provide a lantern lit Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour in which we bring you around the city and show you locations of historic hauntings. And you never know what you might see on our tour. Our customers have snapped photos of som

e strange phenomena that you will find on our page as well as website and other social media. Tickets for Haunted Footsteps are $20 adults, $18 seniors, students and active military and $15 for children. The afternoon tours are are $15 adults, $13 seniors, students and active military and $10 for children. Discounts are available for large groups.

04/23/2025

HP Lovecraft and the Salem Connection by Salem Historical Tour Guide, Stash, now available at WitchCity Gift Shop. This immersive guide takes readers on a chilling tour of Salem's historic landmarks, uncovering the real-life inspiration behind Lovecraft's most terrifying tales.

https://www.witchcitygiftshop.com/product/hp-lovecraft-the-salem-connection

04/22/2025

This photo was taken in the backyard of the Ropes Mansion at the window next to the servants entrance. There appears to be something in the window behind the curtain. Is this is trick of light and shadow or is someone, perhaps a young girl, looking out the window at the people in the backyard? Photo by Marie Rossi

04/20/2025

April is National Poetry Month. I AM SPRING a poem by Salem Historical Tour Guide, Christine R., Ibbetson Street 49, June 2021.

I AM SPRING

I am Spring
as I shout with anger into the Wind
why have my ideas not been sown and turning green?

I am Spring
and ask my Eyes to have sight and not be sour
looking to the East for assurance.

I am Spring
knowing inside me
it is time to Bloom with Care.

I am Spring
and while the Trunk me is not Wood
I shall be Planted, Rooted and Grow.

I shall Embrace you - Spring!

Christine R.
Salem Historical Tour Guide
Ibbetson Street 49, June 2021.

04/19/2025

The 113th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic was April 15, 1912. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to NYC with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg near midnight the day before, succumbing to the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic the next morning.
Two of the survivors was Elizabeth Lindsay Lines and her daughter Mary. On Apr. 13, the two ladies had just finished lunch and stopped for coffee in the adjoining reception room. After they took their seats, Captain Smith and Bruce Ismay came and sat at a table nearby and began discussing the possibility of having the last boilers lit.

On the night of the sinking. Lines and her daughter became alarmed when the ship stopped and the noise of steam being vented out could be heard. The steward told them to remain in their cabin which they did for some time.

Her daughter later recalled that a man from a neighboring cabin (whom she identified as possibly Percival White or his son Richard) alerted them to get dressed and helped them find their lifebelts. The ladies left their cabin and ventured to the boat deck where an officer tied their lifebelts on, saying "We are sending you out as a matter of precaution. We hope you will be back for breakfast."
Lines and her daughter were rescued in lifeboat 9. Aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, Lines was given a bunk while her daughter slept on the floor with another girl around her age.
Lines died on Dec. 17, 1942 and is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, MA.

04/18/2025

April National Poetry Month Rev250 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Paul Revere's Ride (1861)

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year......

https://www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-poem/

04/17/2025

Beautiful pictures of Salem.

04/14/2025

American Revolution Tour in Salem.
Everyone knows Salem for the 1692 Witchcraft Trials, but did you know that Salem made significant contributions to the American Revolution? The shot heard round the world almost happened in Salem, the town was known for its Privateers (legal Pirates) who were the most successful against the British Navy and British military governor General Thomas Gage encountered some of his biggest challenges to his authority in Salem.
We always say that without Salem, the United States may not be the same United States we know today.
Come to Salem as part of the Rev250 Celebration and learn the incredible role our patriots played in the start of our country.
Tour runs April 18, 19 & 20. Get tickets here: https://www.salemhistoricaltours.com/revolution-250-tour.

04/11/2025

Salem has worked its way into Hollywood as hundreds of TV shows and movies have referenced our witch hysteria and many have been shot on location here in our wonderful city. You will be surprised which movies were here and they are not all about our notorious past. Moviemakers love our dramatic architecture, picturesque waterfront and historic streets. We’ll bring you around to the locations and name the TV show or movie as well as the actors and what they did. Then when you watch the movie again, you’ll recognize those locations.

Come take the tour. It runs daily from April through early November. Purchase tickets here: https://www.salemhistoricaltours.com/salem-tv-and-movie-history-tour

04/09/2025

When people think of the name Nathaniel Hawthorne, the first thing that pops into
their head is the Scarlet Letter published in 1850. However, Hawthorne also wrote poetry.
So, in honor of National Poetry month, please enjoy one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poems:

Oh, Could I raise the darken veil?
O could I raise the darkened veil?
Which hides my future life from me,
Could unborn ages slowly sail?
Before my view- And could I see?
My every action painted there,
To cast one look, I would not dare.
Their poverty and grief might stand,
And dark despairs corroding hand,
Would make me seek the lonely tomb
To slumber in its endless gloom.
Then let me never cast a look,
Within Fates fixed mysterious book.
Source: The Specatator (1820)

04/07/2025

April National Poetry Month: Anne Bradstreet (March 1612 - Sept. 16, 1672) is said to be one the first published poets of the North American colonies. Anne and her husband Simon (1603-1697) arrived in Salem in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet. Her poetry held strong views in faith and family.

Upon a fit of Sickness (1632) (Anne Bradstreet)

Twice ten years old not fully told
since nature gave me breath,
My race is run, my thread spun,
lo, here is fatal death.
All men must die, and so must I;
this cannot be revoked.
For Adam's sake this word God spake
when he so high provoked.
Yet live I shall, this life's but small,
in place of highest bliss,
Where I shall have all I can crave,
no life is like to this.
For what's this but care and strife
since first we came from womb?
Our strength doth waste, our time doth haste,
and then we go th' tomb.
O bubble blast, how long can'st last?
that always art a breaking,
No sooner blown, but dead and gone,
Ev'n as a word that's speaking.
O whilst I live this grace me give,
I doing good may be,
Then death's arrest I shall count best,
because it's Thy decree;
Bestow much cost there's nothing lost
to make salvation sure,
O great's the gain, though got with pain,
comes by profession pure.
The race is run, the field is won,
the victory's mine I see;
Forever known, thou envious foe,
the foil belongs to thee.

04/05/2025

April National Poetry Month - Poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) published Mabel Martin: a harvest idyl. A memory to Susannah North Martin (1692). In this poem Whittier creates Susannah daughter Mabel and what life would have been for her in Amesbury after 1692. Susannah North Martin was from Amesbury, MA and JGW house is at 86 Friend Street, Amesbury. MA.

from Mabel Martin: a harvest idyl
Let Goody Martin rest in peace; I never knew her harm a fly.
And Witch or not God knows not I.
I know who swore her life away;
And as God lives, I'd not condemn
An Indian dog on word of them.

04/03/2025

April is National Poetry Month, Welcome Salem's First Poet Laureate, J.D. Scrimgeour. Professor of English at SSU, author of multiple poetry books, essays, and so much more. A member of the community since 1996, he founded the Salem Poetry Seminar, a collaboration with SSU and Salem Athenaeum. As an executive board member of the MA Poetry Festival it has been held in town since 2011. He is a direct ancestor of Mary Towne Eastey (1692 executed victim of Witchcraft), and Thomas Perkins (jury member who convicted her). Be sure to stay up-to-date by following Salem Poet Laureate on Instagram .

I stand in you, I walk in you, I bike through you. I hear your sirens and cicadas, I swim at your small, waveless beaches. I drip my sweat on your asphalt. I listen to your poems every other Tuesday. I lie in a hammock and sleep in you, the shade of you. (J.D. Scrimgeour) (essay clip View from Sunset Rock)

03/31/2025

March 16, 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne published "The Scarlet Letter".
The book takes place between 1642-1649 in Puritan Boston. Hester Prynne is forced to wear a letter "A" for her adultery for having a child out of wedlock. The novel focuses on legalism, sin, and guilt.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) a Salem native had a lot of information to draw from as he is the Great Great Grandson of Judge John Hathorne (1641-1717) aka the "hanging judge" during the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials.

03/28/2025

Samuel Sewall was born March 28, 1652 best known for serving as a Judge on the Court of Oyer & Terminer that oversaw the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.

In January 1697 S. Sewall slipped a note to Pastor Samuel Willard at the Old South meeting house in Boston, which was read to the congregation, expressing guilt and grief.

John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, captured Samuel Sewall grief and guilt in his poem
"The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall" referring to the haunting sorrow that never slept.

03/26/2025

Happy Belated Birthday Barbie! Barbie was introduced at a NYC Toy Fair on March 9, 1959. Has Barbie been to Salem? Designer Robert Best based his version on the 1964 ABC TV show Bewitched, issued by Mattel in 2001 & 2010. Bewitched filmed in Salem in 1970 and the TV Land statue came to town in 2005.

03/19/2025

Come to Salem, See the World

The 18th annual Salem Film Fest will take place March 27-30, 2025, with filmmaker Q&As, parties, and other special events. Tickets are now available.
Since 2007, Salem Film Fest (SFF) has brought the world's best independent documentaries and their makers to Boston's North Shore. Now the largest international documentary film festival in Massachusetts, the event annually presents features, shorts and special events to a loyal audience of thousands. The festival is mostly run by volunteers through a non-profit entity, Salem Community Arts Center, Inc.

https://www.salemfilmfest.com/

03/18/2025

The folklore of the Irish leprechaun, a fairy who if captured can lead you to a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

A leprechaun can be looked upon as an evil spirit who will lead you into a wrong circle - sound familiar to 1692 Witch familiars?

Practical jokers - not good - not evil.

Wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) is said to make you invisible to leprechauns.

Leprechauns toy with you, they love you, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Salem, MA
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Tuesday	11am - 8pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 8pm
Friday	11am - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 8pm
Sunday	11am - 8pm

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Got Ghosts? We do. Come to Salem Historical Tours and take one of daily tours. We have an 11:30 am General History tour, a 1 p.m. Cemetery Walk or TV & Movie Sites Tour, a 2:30 p.m. Midday Ghost Tour and a 90 minute Witchcraft Walk at 4:00 p.m. At night, we provide a lantern lit, 90-minute Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour in which we bring you around the city and show you locations of historic hauntings. And you never know what you might see on our tour. Our customers have snapped photos of some strange phenomena that you will find on our page as well as website and other social media. Tickets for the 90 minute tours are $15 adults, $13 seniors, students and active military and $10 for children. The one-hour tours are $12 adults, $10 seniors, students and active military and $8 for children. Discounts are available for large groups. Call for details.