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(Click white arrow to play) Grab your shawl and broomstick and fly up with Tom and Scott as we journey to haunted Salem, Massachusetts on All Hallow’s Eve. We start out in a windy Victorian graveyard at the tomb of George Peabody, the well-paid American servant of the Rothschilds’ Bank of England and mentor to J.P. Morgan. Then we head out along the harbor to The House of Seven Gables, mysterious home of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured in an episode of Bewitched. Along Salem Harbor we visit The Old Customs house and discuss the notorious Blue Light Federalists, Salem merchants who traded with the British all during The War of 1812! Later, we become on-the-scene “Ghostbusters,” at the spooky old Hawthorne Hotel, then march to Salem Green and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, where the current priest tells how his predecessor was nearly hanged during the Salem Witch Trials, and how, later on, the congregation split into Tories and Patriots during The American Revolution.
Extra Content! Wandering through Salem center
Extra Content! More wandering through Salem
Extra Content! Wrapping it up for the day
Click on the sign-up button now to continue with Scott and Tom and see our fantastic slideshow of Salem history, as well as the great parade of costumes down Derby Street. Follow us out to the creepy home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, better known for the last three centuries as The Witch House. Listen as hundreds of screaming, modern witch-wannabees swarm to enter very the same building where, in 1692, so many God-fearing citizens of Salem were falsely accused of witchcraft and promptly sentenced to hang! Passing the new TV Land statue of Elizabeth Montgomery, we tie one on at Rockafellas, debating how, as far as tourism is concerned, the witches have finally (and totally) won out in a town that has renamed itself “Witch City,” and is now the undisputed world capital of Halloween, hosting a continuous, year-round celebration, morphing into an epic freak show every October. On our last stop we head out to the home of Elias Hasket Derby, America’s first millionaire and founding member of The Old China Trade. Buy The Companion
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