visit salem, mass.

not alot seems important anymore.

My goal is to try to go every year. I went the last weekend of September, just before and the beginning of Haunted Happenings.
It was still quiet, the leaves were all colors. (A big change from Houston, Texas.I stayed in town so I could walk and enjoy the whole experience. The weather is great and oh so wonderful. The sweet smell of the fall flowers and leaves, oh my! It’s like walking back in time (when the town is quiet and in the fall.)
Salem is a great spot to stay and visit Mass. Must visit Winter Island also, for the Veiw of the coast, WOW! Salem is minutes away to port towns. My favorite place in the world! Be sure and go to “In a Pig’s Eye”, Frtiz (Awsome Seafood), Laurie Cabot’s Shop, AromaSanctum Perfumes, the Hawthorne Hotel for lunch or to stay, etc., etc. Enjoy!
(Photo is of the port of Salem)

Touristy, tacky, sophisticated, historic, beautiful, shabby, quaint. It’s a really cool little town that has both low-brown and high-brow sights to see. Gallows Hill is now a creepy athletic field. The Peabody Essex Museum rocks. Nearby Danvers (aka Salem Village) has preserved many sites from the witch hunt era including the ruins of the Salem Village parsonage—located in a really magical little forested glade.

Plus, that part of New England is just really beautiful—totally worth the trip no matter where you’re coming from. Just bring a good road map and be prepared for some crazy drivers.

I went at the best time, Halloween. It was very commercial, I agree. However you have to take a couple days, see beyond the gross commercialism and hype, and discover the town’s spirit. No question it is a mecca for witches, and the irony that every one involved in the witch trials were allegedly wrongly accused cannot be overlooked. But we went to two masquarade balls, walked the streets in costume, meet very interesting people, and had a very good time.

As other people said, it’s too commercial, not all that interesting, and just basically a tourist trap. If you’re into kitschy stuff like that I guess it’d be fun, but it really wasn’t that great.

it was too commercial—filled with witch museums documenting halloween-esque witch products. there is one house from the salem witch trials still standing. the only things left to do are haunted tours that are more for a thrill than for history. if you like to be scared in a giggling sort of way, then go ahead. if you are in it for the history, then stay away. the picture i took was from the, and i quote, “most historically accurate witch museum in salem”. is this picture historically accurate? i think not.

Was a very exciting place! There was a fake trial and even though i was sick it was beautiful with cobblestone streets and wonderful little book stores.. i loved massachusetts!

It wasn’t exactly what I expected but it was still worth doing. I went for school trip in high school so we didn’t get to look around much but what I did see was interesting. My friend and I want to live there for the month of october hopefully in the near future.

i’m a witch!

It was wonderful, but now I want to go back and visit the real place where it happened.