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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yeah, h h. Welcome to f j After midnight tonight,
- 0:48Speaker 1: we travel through the most the mist covered street of Salem, Massachusetts,
- 0:55Speaker 1: the city where the past never truly rest. They call
- 0:59Speaker 1: it the Witch City, home to the legend hauntings and
- 1:04Speaker 1: the echoes of fear that began over three centuries ago.
- 1:10Speaker 1: This is Ghosts of Salem Salem sixteen ninety two, a
- 1:20Speaker 1: world caught between superstitishes and faith, where pairing and all
- 1:26Speaker 1: could mean the difference between life and death. It started small.
- 1:31Speaker 1: A few young girls claimed to be coursed. They screamed, convulsed, said,
- 1:37Speaker 1: invisible spirits tormented at them, and before long, over two
- 1:49Speaker 1: hundred people were accused of witch craft. Nineteen were accused
- 1:56Speaker 1: by hanging. One man, Jils Cory, was pressed to death
- 2:01Speaker 1: between heaven stones, his final words more weight. Segment two,
- 2:17Speaker 1: at the edge of downtown Salem lies the old Berry
- 2:23Speaker 1: Point Cemetery, one of the oldest in the United States.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Beneath the twisted branches and titled headstones rest judges, victims,
- 2:43Speaker 1: and town folk who's named time nearly erased. Locals say
- 2:54Speaker 1: after midnight, shadows moved between the graves, cold spot drift
- 3:00Speaker 1: across the ground, even on warm summer nights. Vision here
- 3:06Speaker 1: whispers like name being called, though no one is there.
- 3:16Speaker 1: One frequent apparent to judge himself, Jonathan Cray. They say
- 3:21Speaker 1: he appears near the family tomb, wearing dark cloak, his
- 3:26Speaker 1: face hidden, and if you stare too long, you might
- 3:29Speaker 1: hear voice whispers guilty. Segment two. Three excuse me Segment three.
- 3:41Speaker 1: The Witch House. The Witch House isn't a story. It's real,
- 3:46Speaker 1: still standing on Acts Street. It's black, timbered and steep.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Campbell's watch over the city like dark memory. It was
- 4:00Speaker 1: once the home of George Crown, the same man who
- 4:04Speaker 1: condemned so many visitors today report strange things. Doors slamming
- 4:11Speaker 1: shut by themselves, portray tilts on walls, and cold drop
- 4:16Speaker 1: sweep through even when windows are sealed, leaf waves, leaves.
- 4:27Speaker 1: And also one tourist she saw a woman reflection in
- 4:34Speaker 1: the glass, though no one else was in the room.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Others your footsteps following in them upstairs, only to find
- 4:42Speaker 1: the landing empty. Segond A four. The Spirit of Salem Jail.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Few places hold as much sorrow as the old Salem Jail.
- 4:55Speaker 1: It was here the many of accused spirit their final
- 4:59Speaker 1: day before facing the gallows, dark, damp, and cruel prisoners
- 5:06Speaker 1: were chained in cell very big enough to stand in.
- 5:11Speaker 1: Modern visitors, even work from when it was converted into
- 5:15Speaker 1: a restaurant, claimed to see ghost figures. A woman in
- 5:19Speaker 1: a tannered dress appears near the old holding cells sometimes
- 5:26Speaker 1: placed fall from shelves with no causes. Cold air rushes
- 5:31Speaker 1: food in the room though every window is closed. Maybe
- 5:41Speaker 1: those who suffered has never left. Segment five Salem today,
- 5:47Speaker 1: where the past still breathes. Today's Salem thrives as both
- 5:52Speaker 1: a living city and a monumentum. It's hunt at history.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Tourists come from all over the world to feel that
- 6:00Speaker 1: than vain between life and death, Psychic cada, ghost towards, museums,
- 6:06Speaker 1: all built around a store that refuses to fade. And
- 6:09Speaker 1: maybe that's the real haunting of Salem, not just spirits
- 6:14Speaker 1: in the dark, but the weight of guilt, fear, and
- 6:16Speaker 1: history that carry on. The witch trials may have ended
- 6:26Speaker 1: centuries ago, but in Salem the whispers deevertually stopped. You've
- 6:34Speaker 1: been listening to after after midnight this episode Ghost of Salem,
- 6:38Speaker 1: Haunts of which shitty. If you ever find yourself walking
- 6:42Speaker 1: down at street at night and you feel a chill
- 6:46Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with the wind. Maybe, just
- 6:50Speaker 1: maybe you're met one of Salem's ghosts. Until next time,
- 7:00Speaker 1: I'm stay curious, stay cautious, and remember African Midnight. The
- 7:04Speaker 1: truth always finds you.