"The witch trials cast a long dark shadow on Salem history," Baker said. The top of nearby Gallows Hill had long been thought of as the site of the hangings, but there was no evidence to support ...

A group of researchers on the Salem witch trials called The Gallows Hill Project team, now identifies the site as a rocky ledge much closer to Boston Street, at the base of the hill, basing its ...

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial is often mistaken for the site of the hangings. / Photo via Wikimedia Commons Researchers confirmed that Proctor’s Ledge is where 19 people accused of witchcraft ...

The Salem witch trials were “the largest and most lethal witch hunt in American history,” wrote historian Emerson “Tad” Baker, a professor at Salem State University in his 2015 book A ...

Checking out the site of a historic atrocity has rarely been so convenient. Researchers have realized the site of the Salem Witch Trial hangings — which left 19 people dead in 1692 for suppos… ...

Dark history behind the Salem witch trials - from paranoia to public hangings ... with the risk of a public hanging looming if they didn’t falsely confess. Between 1692 and 1693, ...

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 ...

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 (AP) – A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch ...

In 1692, 19 people were executed during the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. Until 2016, researchers weren't sure exactly where. As part of the five-year Gallows Hill Project, a team pinpointed ...

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 ...