Ok, not going to go into if ghosts are real or not, as I really think that is a personal belief that you either have or haven’t, but there is so much incorrect info here regarding the Witch Trials.

Yes, Giles Corey did curse the Sheriff, yes they WERE still under English law and Corwin could “play” with it as he chose. The Mass Bay Colony had lost their charter. Yes he did reply more weight.

Yes, Corwin’s body was underneath the Joshua Ward house because Phillip English wanted to get his hands on it.

Yes, The last person to be buried on Charter Street is Methabel Higginson-relative of the Higginson of “Higginson Book Company” fame, if you will.

As far as Gallows Hill not being haunted, we are still not 100% sure that is the place they were hanged.

No, Tituba DID NOT practice witchcraft-there were no practicing Wiccans in Salem in 1692. The adults of the town, Parris, Putnam, Mather, Corwin etc proclaimed it was because they didn’t know otherwise.

Yes, the trials DID occur in present day Salem. The hangings were here, the dungeon was here, the court room was here, and the church was here, Giles COrey was pressed here-the homes of the victims were/are in Danvers. So, it occurred in BOTH to be technical about it.

Just a little fyi-Willow-they weren’t Christians – they were Puritans, and they were also Calvinists. Not Christians. Slight difference. But yeah, you’re right, people just wanted others to beleive they were “witches” so they could destroy them in some way.

RickSaw seems to have a good sense of what happened.

Whomever said they don’t believe in Witches…. do you beleive in Catholics? Jews? Muslims? Buddhists? Because Wiccans are real, my dear. Been around longer than Christianity.

Ok, sorry for the rant.

actually harry…giles corey said “more wieght”…..not more rocks!!!lol

dis **** is gay jus like the redskins kus they got raped by new england patriots and TOM BRADY IS A GHOST WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE SUCKS COCOK TO

well guyz i have lived in Salem since i was born, tournist are a pain in the neck since they alwayz for some reason get lost and end up at my job asking for directions! STOP,its anoying as hell!!! and before salem was not just salem peabody and danvers and other places were salem until these places broke appart, the real gallows hill is in danvers!! get it go there… you guys drive like idiots annd block intersections that say do not blok intersections. oh and by the way if a parking lot has arrows of how you get in and out follow them. durr and please buy a map and stop getting lost…

i know sum things are pelled wrong like tourists but in in a hurry so f it!.

i know sum things are spelled wrong like tourists but in in a hurry so f it!.
you c im out…

hun, yo…. i live in salem too since i was born and the real gallows hill is in peabody! get your facts straight ok! oh and i agree on the tourists it is a pain and they always get lost!

GHOSTS ARE MAINLY FROM THE KKK JUS LIKE THE BLACK PEOPLE

I went on one of the walking ghost tours of Salem last year. I snapped a lot of pics just to see what would turn up and was rewarded with a large collection of orb shots. FYI, in all the years I’ve shot pictures I never had orbs in them but this walk yielded about 20 shots containing one or more orbs.

I live soooo close to salem!! And I never knew that happened! Freaky!

But Ive been to salem a lot and nothing has ever
happened to me…..
oh well

Okay first off, I believe in ghosts so I don’t have any problems with those stories. Honestly though some of you are getting a lot of stuff wrong. First, about all the “Giles put a curse on the Sheriff”, please I highly doubt that this man was powerful enough to curse somebody just by speaking it out loud. I do believe in witchs though, I am a witch so I know how it works. For the person that said no person got hung for having herbs, wrong. Back then anybody caught with herbs, books on such things, hell if a cat walked into your yard you were suspected of Witchcraft. I’m not saying they didn’t go after Christians they did because they were sick ******** they went after anybody. It is correct though that us witchs don’t believe in the Devil. I know a lot about this stuff, and some of the above comments are crazy!

HELLO PEOPLE! I don’t know if any of you realized that this “things” are real and it even worst that you could ever imagine this “things” ghosts and spirits and stuff can harm you, didn’t any of you ever hard of possessions ´well this “things” can do that.so please don’t make this a competition.
believe me you don’t want to met or see this ghosts spirits or even demons

Ok look, he said more weight not more rocks you guys need to get your facts straight and yes I am so sick of people comming to Salem and always asking me things at work so if you want information just go to a stinking tore ok! sorry about that rant but he did say more rocks

A few years back I took one of Salems haunted tours, and this was one of the stops. What creeped me out was the fact that the house and I share the same name…

Ha Ha!!! This story is fun-ny cuz i read the coments and went on the web to find out that they were true!(the comments) What kind of idiot do you think i am to be believin’ in all your crappola?! Well let me tell you this, yesterday i saw a cow i my back yard and it decided to spend the night at my grandmas!!! Now let’s see if your crappola beats mine!!!!!!! that’s what you get 4 messin’ with the crappola queen!!!Next time that cow comes 2 visit i’ll try 2 milk it!!!

dude that’s realy scary i like scary stuff i like have 100 books aboute ghosts i mean real story’s

All these tails of haunted houses are imaginable by human being , always we heard stories but we see only movies, let’s be real and rid of this absurd, we don’t want to go back to the past where people were not intelectual , it’s 2008 we need to be real and do step in , not step out , please inform us about technology better than waste time then our lives.

heyy pplz…
umm ghosts areee deff. real…
i just got back from a grave yard and all i see is these
weird clearish, sometimes short or tall looking things or (ghosts) as we say. buit still . u should believe its
all true and it very little when u meet ppl that know how to contact ghost. :]
please stay chill. :}

how come no one has talked about how the trials became a way to gain land? if you accused someone you could posibley aquire there land in the deal- and giles said more weight fyi- Salem is my home town and i have worked directly with historians having worked at the witch dungeon- pioneer village- and the gables- and they were puritans not christians duh-

The act of “pressing” was actually on the lawbooks. It was used before the witch trials in England and other countries as a sentence. It was on the English lawbooks to use it in a non plea to get the accused to plea aye or nay to their accusation. Giles was pressed for this same reason. He was the first and last person to have this applied in a “lawful” mannor in America. As for his last words, it is hotly debated between “more weight” and “damn you, I curse you and all of salem” (speaking to the sherriff). There is nothing to prove either way, since the only written record doesn’t actually tell what his dying words were. Both are heresay and it’s possible that he said nothing, due to the fact that he was being crushed. At a certain point, he would have been able to do nothing.