What happens when a teacher inspires her students to take on history? In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch ...

SALEM — During a celebration for the upcoming locally filmed documentary “The Last Witch”, Biff Michaud, CEO of the Salem Witch Museum, made a $10,000 contribution toward the film in an effort to help ...

Scores of people were imprisoned and executed during the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1600s. Investigators examine the era's rampant anti-witch sentiment from a scientific viewpoint, testing ...

SALEM — An early preview of the locally filmed upcoming documentary feature film “The Last Witch” will be hosted at Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall this Thursday, Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. The film, written ...

Bursting onto the Gaiety stage this month is Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a play set during the Salem witch trials of 1692.

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

1692, Salem, Massachusetts; 162 people are arrested on charges of witchcraft. Five die in jail, one is crushed to death and 19 die on the gallows. The Salem witch trials have long been regarded as the ...

NORTH ANDOVER — As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, Mass., every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns in the Merrimack Valley have stories seldom heard, ...

Discover how fear and superstition led to one of the darkest chapters in American history. Immerse yourself in the Salem ...

(The Conversation) — Dogs appeared several times during testimonies, typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in the ...