As I write this article on a sunny autumn afternoon, 1.2 million tourists are quickly invading my local city of Salem, Massachusetts. Many come for the haunted ...

Pulling up at Marblehead’s Harbor Light Hotel, my oldest friend and I wasted no time securing two counter seats at the Tavern tucked inside. A Christmas tree twinkled incongruously as we planned ...

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Local officials are racing against the clock to intervene and save Ingersoll’s Ordinary before more than three centuries of ...

The scans created thousands upon thousands of X-rays, which are digitally stacked to examine what is inside them. The museum said the mummies have been part of its collection for several years.

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The witchy folklore of this mysterious Massachusetts city draws thousands of visitors every October, but residents offer advice and lesser-known haunts. Spooky revelers take to the streets in ...

Boston Science Museum, most area zoos, Salem Witch Museum, Plimoth Patuxet, the New England Patriots Hall of Fame and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Call your local library or visit their website ...

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Grave of Seth Putnam in between his wives, Dolly and Wate. Photo by Carla Occaso. Less than 100 years after the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, descendents of the key accusers helped to settle Middlesex, ...

He says the American horror tradition started even before there was an America, with early English settlers and their suspicions that led to the Salem witch trials. DAUBER: You have these puritans.