Massachusetts

Salem

Giles Corey

Needless to say there are many hauntings in Salem. There are the apparitions of an alleged warlock, Giles Corey who appears near the Old Jail
whenever something terrible is about to happen in the community. Ghosts of the accused witches also foreshadow calamity on Gallows Hill. The
home of Jonathan Corwin, one of the judges of the bizarre witch trials, is considered to be haunted by the spirits of those condemned there. Now
known as the "Witch House," it was the scene of many preliminary examinations of the accused witches.

Another haunted house is the Ropes Mansion, where the ghosts of Judge Nathaniel Ropes where his wife Abigail (grave to the right) was burned to
death in a fire in the upstairs bedroom. She passed to close to the fireplace and her nightgown caught on fire. Unforunately it was common death
for woman back then.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, descendent of one of the witchcraft judges, was born in Salem in 1804 and always felt that the home of his cousin Susan
Ingersoll was haunted. he put his impressions of this on paper in his famous book, The House of Seven Gables, which the house is now called.
The House of Seven Gables is considered one of the eeriest houses out of a town of haunted houses. In the House of Seven Gables, a secret
passageway has been fairly recently discovered. The passage way is from a closet in the living room downstairs, and it is an opening with a ladder
climbing behind the fireplace into a hidden room upstairs. This room was supposedly used to hide escaped slaves. The only other way out of this
secret room is a panel in the wall that opens only one way into a hallway upstairs. You are able to go in this passageway when you get an
appointment to take a tour in the house. While still young, Hawthorne also encountered a ghost of a reverend every day for a week at the Salem
Athenaeum Library.

Mary Easty

In the town of Wenham, not far from Salem Mass, they mostly escaped the witch hysteria of 1692 until a seventeen-year-old girl named Mary
Hennick had an unsuspected visitor. On September 22nd, a ghost in the form of Mary Easty came to her and said, "I am going to upon the ladder
to be hanged for a witch, but I am innocent and twelfth-month be past you shall believe it," then she vanished. Like most people in the Salem area,
Mary Hennick believed that all of the people being prosecuted for witchcraft were indeed witches and were evil. She kept this visitation to herself
because she did not want to lower herself to a level where he was reporting messages from a condemned witch.

Goody Easty was such a gentile woman, it was difficult for the magistrates themselves to believe that she was a witch. Even the jailors
themselves pleaded for her, but to no avail. She even contested to the judges in attempt to save her life, but again she was unsuccessful. One of
the powers of a witch is to be able to rise from the dead, now in Goody Easty's case she wasn't a witch but was simply seeking justice after being
wrongly prosecuted.

Shortly after September 22nd, Mary Hennick came to be plagued with mysterious pains which she couldn't find a cause for. Then one night she
was visited a second time, this time by the pious wife of John Hale of Beverly Mass. She quickly realized that Mrs. Hale was the cause of her
pains because she would regularly visit Mary Hennick and pinch and choke her. Sometimes Goody Easty would also come with Mrs. Hale but
would only stand with her hands at her sides staring in thought at Mary Hennick. Occasionally Easty would, "made as if to speak and did not."

One night Mrs. Hale asked, "Do you think I am a witch?" Mary responded, "No! You be the devil!" Eventually one night Goody Easty spoke again
and said, "that she was been put to death wrongfully and was innocent of the witchcraft and she came to vindicate her cause." Then the girl
thought she yelled, "Vengeance! Vengeance!" She then gave the girl instructions to reveal her visits to Mr. Hale and Mr. Gerrish and then Mrs.
Hale would stop afflicting her. Mary then went to Reverend Joseph Gerrish of Wenham and told him about the visits which she called the "delusion
of the devil." He recorded the incident and summoned Mr. Hale to hear from the girl her visits from his dead wife. John Hale knew that his wife
would of never done anything of the sort. After the girl told the men that Goody Easty requested, her and Mrs. Hale never harassed her again.