The Salem witch trials were “the largest and most lethal witch hunt in American history,” wrote ... In the 325 years since 19 of the falsely accused were hanged as witches in Salem, ...

SALEM (CBS) - After nearly three centuries of conflicting beliefs, the city of Salem confirms a team of scholars verified the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the 1692 witch trials ...

SALEM, Mass.-- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials ...

Salem’s witch trials were a memory by the time artist Thomas Satterwhite Noble painted “The Salem Martyr” in 1869. He portrays a young girl found guilty of witchcraft walking to the gallows ...

News; Weird News; Frisk; Dark history behind the Salem witch trials - from paranoia to public hangings From possessed cousins to false confessions - the infamous witch trials were mysterious to ...

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, ... Some of the women who were hanged during the Salem witch trials have been memorialized.

Fear + trigger = scapegoat" is displayed at the Salem Witch Museum, a popular tourist attraction in Massachusetts where I ...

The history of the Salem witch trials is well-known to individuals with a solid grasp of colonial-era history. (At least, it is to me. Having grown up about 35 miles from Salem, I read about the ...

Site of Salem 'witch' hangings confirmed US researchers say they've found the spot in Salem where 19 innocent people were hanged as witches in 1692.

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies ...