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Salem: The Shadows of Witches — A Haunted History · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 1: at work and and tonight's episode. I've been wanting to
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  Speaker 1: do this episode for a really long time, and I
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  Speaker 1: it's lights out. Everybody as a story begins. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: place where history feels finished, holding store. The streets have
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  Speaker 1: been finished, the buildings have been restored, the streets have
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  Speaker 1: been paved that, the graves have been marked, the stories
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  Speaker 1: have been written down. And then there are places like Salem, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: a city where the past seems to refuse to leave. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: we're walking into a town where fear once spread from
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  Speaker 1: house to house like fire, where accusations could destroy families,
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  Speaker 1: where a whisper could become evidence, and where nineteen innocent
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  Speaker 1: people were executed during one of the darkest episodes in
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  Speaker 1: American colonial history. But Salem's frightening reputation does not end
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  Speaker 1: with the historical record. For centuries, stories have circulated about
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  Speaker 1: restless spirits, ghostly figures, unexplained footsteps, cold spots, shadowy apparitions,
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  Speaker 1: phantom voices, and buildings where visitors claim they could still
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  Speaker 1: fill something lingering from the past. Tonight, we're going going
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  Speaker 1: into these stories. This is not simply a story about witches.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story sorry about fear, a story about death,
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  Speaker 1: a story about guilt, and, perhaps most frightening of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's a story about what happens when the entire community
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  Speaker 1: becomes convinced or convicted that evil is hiding among them.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Salem. Imagine Salem in the year sixteen, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety two. There are no modern street lights, no automobiles,
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  Speaker 1: no police cars, no telephones. The nights are almost completely dark.
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  Speaker 1: Candlelight fixtures behind winden windows. The harbor is nearby. The
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  Speaker 1: wind moves through through narrow streets, and behind the settlement
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  Speaker 1: lies the wilderness that many colonists regarded with fear and superstitious.
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  Speaker 1: Life was difficult, Disease was common, religious beliefs were powerful,
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  Speaker 1: and the invisible world is very real to many people
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  Speaker 1: living here. People believed that the devil could tempt human beings.
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  Speaker 1: They believed that the supernatural forces could cause illness. They
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  Speaker 1: believed that the witches could harm their neighbors. And then,
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  Speaker 1: and when several young girls in Salem Village began suffering symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: the community struggled to explain what was happening. The girls
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  Speaker 1: experience fits and convulsions, they screened, They complained of strange sensations.
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  Speaker 1: They claimed that they were being tormented, and soon accusations began.
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  Speaker 1: Some had to be someone had to be responsible, someone
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  Speaker 1: had to be the cause of it. Someone had invited
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  Speaker 1: evil to Salem, and once the accusations began, they began
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  Speaker 1: they become almost impossible to stop. The Salem witch trials
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  Speaker 1: were not the only who were not one single trial.
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  Speaker 1: They were a way of.
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  Speaker 2: Accusations, examinations, imprisonments, and executions that spread through the community.
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  Speaker 2: They were was accused, neighbors, family members became suspicious from
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  Speaker 2: one from one to another. People were questioned about visical forces,
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  Speaker 2: some confused, some denied everything, Others named individual people, and
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  Speaker 2: every new accusion accusation.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed to be to create another. It began or it
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  Speaker 1: became a terrible chain. One accusation led to another, then another,
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  Speaker 1: then another. Eventually, more than a tried people were imprisoned
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  Speaker 1: during the crisis, and nineteen people were executed whilst were
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  Speaker 1: hung unnare named. Gerald's court was subject to a hoarse,
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  Speaker 1: horrific form of execution. After refusing to inter repleat heavy
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  Speaker 1: stones were placed upon him. The pressure increased again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again. He was asked to enter a plea.
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  Speaker 1: He refused. The story of his final words was to
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  Speaker 1: become part of a Salem's dark mythology, and the place
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  Speaker 1: where he died came the location shoes associating associated the
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  Speaker 1: Salem's supernatural legends. One of Sailor's most famous historic buildings
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  Speaker 1: is the house associated with the with Judge Jonathan Corwin.
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  Speaker 1: Today is commonly known as the witch House. It looks
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  Speaker 1: almost ordinary, it may be that may be what makes
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  Speaker 1: it unsettling. A wooden house, dark shadows, old rooms, a
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  Speaker 1: structure that that has survived for centuries. But walk inside
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  Speaker 1: and you were immediately reminded of the world back in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen the world of sixteen ninety two, a world where
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  Speaker 1: accusations of witchcraft could mean imprisonment or even death. The
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  Speaker 1: house itself is not a haunted house in a traditional
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  Speaker 1: sense of this, and paranormal enthusiasts have long attached ghost
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  Speaker 1: stories to say them historic buildings. Some claim to have
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  Speaker 1: felt sudden, cold sensations, others report hearing unexplained sounds, and
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  Speaker 1: some believe that the emotional history of the city was
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  Speaker 1: left kind of an imprint on the houses, on the
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  Speaker 1: places connected to the trials. Is that paranormal well, or
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  Speaker 1: is it the psychological weight of standing inside a building
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  Speaker 1: connected to such terrible history. Perhaps the answer depends on
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  Speaker 1: what you believe, because Salem is a strange ability to
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  Speaker 1: make you wonder, there's another place in Salem where the
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  Speaker 1: past fills, especially close the old by Ring Point Cemetery.
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  Speaker 1: Established in the seventeenth century. It is one of Salem's
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  Speaker 1: oldest burial grounds. Walk amongst the stones and you encounter
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  Speaker 1: the names from another world, People who lived and died
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  Speaker 1: centuries ago, people who knew the men and the women
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  Speaker 1: caught in the witchcraft crisis, people whose lives existed before
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  Speaker 1: America was even a nation. And then there is a
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  Speaker 1: realization that the victims of the Salem witch trials were
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  Speaker 1: not buried here in a grand memorial graves. The condemned
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  Speaker 1: were often buried and unmarked or poorly documented locations. That
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  Speaker 1: uncertainty became part of Salem's haunting atmosphere. Where exactly where
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  Speaker 1: all the victims were? Worried well happens to their what
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  Speaker 1: happened to their remains? Did their families know where they
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  Speaker 1: were late to rest? These questions create an entire mystery
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  Speaker 1: that history cannot always completely be answered, and where history
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  Speaker 1: leaves an empty space, legend often moves in. Perhaps a
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  Speaker 1: story from Salem is more disturbing that of Giles Cory
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  Speaker 1: Cory was accused of witchcraft, he refused to inter replete.
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  Speaker 1: Because of that refusal, he was subject to pressing. Heavy
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  Speaker 1: stones were placed upon his body, more weight was added,
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  Speaker 1: the pressure continued. Then he died underneath it. And then
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  Speaker 1: came the legend. Some people claimed that Cory placed a
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  Speaker 1: curse upon Salem. According to the legend, he warned that
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  Speaker 1: as Salem continued to mistreat innocent people, disaster would follow
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  Speaker 1: where the curse was ever spoken, exactly as legend claims.
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  Speaker 1: As another matter, there is no reliable historical evidence for
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  Speaker 1: proving that a supernatural curse came from Jarles Cory, but
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  Speaker 1: the story survived, and over the centuries people have connected
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  Speaker 1: later tragedies to it, fires, disasters, misfortunes. The legend grew
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  Speaker 1: and grew, and today disposed. Curse of Jarles Corey remains
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  Speaker 1: one of Salem's most chilling pieces of folklore, perhaps because
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  Speaker 1: of the curse wasn't really the frightening part. The frightening
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  Speaker 1: part is what actually happened to him. A real man,
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  Speaker 1: a real accusation, a real execution. No ghost story is
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  Speaker 1: needed to make what is horrifying. Ghost story extended far
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  Speaker 1: beyond these historic homes, hotels, cemeteries, museums, and old streets
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  Speaker 1: have all become associated paranormals names. Visitors have reported seeing
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  Speaker 1: shadowy figures. Some say they are footsteps when nearby when
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  Speaker 1: nobody goes nearby. Others described hearing voices in empty rooms.
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  Speaker 1: There are stories of doors opening on their own, objects
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  Speaker 1: so as supposed will be be movement, and cold spots
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  Speaker 1: appearing without explanation. And then there are the figures the
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  Speaker 1: people clean to sea for a woman, a person standing
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the hallway, a woman dressed in
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  Speaker 1: old fashionable cloth, a dark figure peering around a corner,
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  Speaker 1: a face glimpsing through a window when the witness looks again. Nothing, no,
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  Speaker 1: just an empty hallway, just an empty stream, just an
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  Speaker 1: ordinary empty room for someone, or for anyone looking for
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  Speaker 1: Sealem's supernatural side. The city's historic hotels and inns are
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  Speaker 1: often a center of ghost stories, and that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Hotels are places where people come and go, people arrive,
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  Speaker 1: people will leave, some become part of the history of building,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes, according to legend, they never truly leave. Guests
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  Speaker 1: have reported strange noises during the night, footsteps, footsteps moving
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  Speaker 1: through hallways, doors opening, or closing, the sensation that someone
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  Speaker 1: is standing beside the bed. Some stories involved operations associated
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  Speaker 1: with the former residents or visitors. Others are far more
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  Speaker 1: or less specific. A shadow, a voice, a sudden chill,
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  Speaker 1: a feeling of being watched. But here where our story
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  Speaker 1: becomes and especially interesting. The paranormal investigators often say that
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  Speaker 1: Salem history makes it difficult to separate the supernatural from explanation.
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  Speaker 1: If you walk into an old room knowing someone is
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  Speaker 1: supposedly died there, you may interpret it every creek differently.
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  Speaker 1: Every shadow becomes suspicious, every cold breeze becomes a possible ghost.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean every experience is imaginary. It simply
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  Speaker 1: means Salem leads us with a question, what exactly are
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  Speaker 1: people experiencing? Before we're going deeper into the ghost stories,
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  Speaker 1: we need to understand something important. The Salem which trials
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  Speaker 1: were very real, The suffering was very real, that fear
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  Speaker 1: was very real. But many supernatural explanations attached to the
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  Speaker 1: events of where matters of the legend, the folklore or
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  Speaker 1: later interpretation modern historians have oh was numerous explanations for
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  Speaker 1: the strange symptoms experienced by the affected girls. Social tension,
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  Speaker 1: religious fear, psychological factors, illness, community conflict, and mass hysteria
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  Speaker 1: have all been discussed. But regardless of exactly why the
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  Speaker 1: accusations began, the result was devastating. Fear became stronger than reason,
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  Speaker 1: and once that happened, Sale became a place where accusations
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  Speaker 1: could become a punishment. Today, one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: places to visit, the Salem witch Trial's memorial is a quiet,
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  Speaker 1: almost deliberately quiet the emotional horrors. The memorable honors those
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  Speaker 1: who were accused and executed, their names, their lives, their deaths.
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  Speaker 1: The memorial is not a hamid attraction, does not need
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  Speaker 1: to be standing. There can be more disturbing than any
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  Speaker 1: haunted house effect because these weren't fictional characters. These were
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  Speaker 1: real human beings. They had real families, they had real homes,
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  Speaker 1: and they had ordinary lives, and then they became accused,
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  Speaker 1: and once accused, their lives changed forever. Imagine hearing someone
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  Speaker 1: saying your name in a crowded room. Then imagine that
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  Speaker 1: person accusing you of witchcraft. Imagine knowing the accusation could
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  Speaker 1: lead to your death. Imagine watching your neighbors believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine realizing there are many ways to be, no way
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  Speaker 1: to prove that your innocence, that is the truth. Horror
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  Speaker 1: of Salem. The devil was everywhere in the imagination of
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth century Salem. To the people living through the crisis,
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  Speaker 1: Satan was not merely a character in a story. He
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  Speaker 1: represented an actual, supernatural threat. The devil could tempt, the
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  Speaker 1: devil can deceive. The devil could supposedly make contact with contracts.
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  Speaker 1: The devil couldn't supposedly make contracts with witches, and some
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  Speaker 1: people believed that the witches could work with him to
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  Speaker 1: harm others, and believe became one of the foundations of
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  Speaker 1: the crisis. Today, the ideas seemed frightening in a different
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  Speaker 1: way because the devil did not need to appear. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't need horns, he didn't need flames. All that was
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  Speaker 1: required was for people to believe he was already among them,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly everyone could become a suspect, your neighbor, your friend,
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  Speaker 1: your relative, and even you. Sela's Modern attractions sometimes recreate
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere of the witch trials, dark rooms, old wooden walls, chains, accusations,
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  Speaker 1: stories of imprisonment, but beneath the theatrical presentation and is
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  Speaker 1: a much darker history of reality. People really were imprisoned.
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  Speaker 1: They suffered in filthy conditions, some became sick, some died
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  Speaker 1: before they were even on trial. Families were torn apart,
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  Speaker 1: property was seized, reputations were destroyed, and the fear didn't
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  Speaker 1: simply disappear when the accusations ended. It took time for
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  Speaker 1: the community to realize what it had done. Eventually, the
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  Speaker 1: trials collapsed, the accusations lost credibility, and the people of
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  Speaker 1: Salem began to understand the t able consequences of the panic.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the night after the executions. The streets were dark,
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  Speaker 1: the courthouse was quiet, the prison doors were closed. The
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  Speaker 1: cemetery is still and somewhere families were grieving. The hysteria
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  Speaker 1: was beginning to fade, but the damage was already been done.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen people were dead, one man was crushed, many others
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  Speaker 1: have spent months in prisoned. Families have lost loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: and the entire community was being scared. An entire community
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  Speaker 1: has been scarred. Now, imagine walking through Salem centuries later.
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  Speaker 1: The buildings are different, the clothing, yes, it's different. The
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  Speaker 1: streets they're different as well, But the names remain. The
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  Speaker 1: stories remain, and perhaps that's why Salem feels haunted, not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily because of ghost You're walking through the streets because
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  Speaker 1: the memory is.
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  Speaker 3: There are countless stories that say, am for figures appearing
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  Speaker 3: in the windows, a woman dressing old clothing, a place
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  Speaker 3: where a pale face.
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  Speaker 4: Behind grass, a silhouette standing upstairs room when this looks away,
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  Speaker 4: then looks bad strong give a reflection, a person inside
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  Speaker 4: the building, a trick of light, of course, absolutely, then
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  Speaker 4: imagine in it at two o'clock in the morning. Imagine
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  Speaker 4: walking the road down an old ceiling the street. The
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  Speaker 4: windows are dark, the buildings are silent, and suddenly there's
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  Speaker 4: a face staring down at you. You stop, the face disappears.
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  Speaker 4: You stare at the window, nothing just darkness.
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  Speaker 1: You continue walking, and then you hear footsteps behind you.
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  Speaker 1: You turn around. Nobody's. One of the most common categories
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  Speaker 1: of the paranormal reports evolves shadowy human figures. Salem has
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  Speaker 1: a zone of collection of such stories. A dark figure
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  Speaker 1: crossing the hallway, a silhouette appearing side the doorway, a
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  Speaker 1: person standing in a room who disappears when approached. These
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  Speaker 1: stories are difficult to verify, and there are as many
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  Speaker 1: natural explanations for seeing shadows in low light, but the
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  Speaker 1: human brain is remarkably sensitive to the shape of another person.
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  Speaker 1: Even a coat hanging from a wall can suddenly look
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  Speaker 1: like someone's standing there, Yet for the person experiencing it,
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  Speaker 1: the fear is very much real. In Salem's old architect
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  Speaker 1: actually provides endless opportunities for the imagination to fill into
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. Few images are not more closely associated with
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  Speaker 1: Salem that of the Hanging Tree. Popular stories have claimed
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  Speaker 1: that the victims of the witch trials were executed underneath
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  Speaker 1: specific trees, but historical evidence considering the exact execution site
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  Speaker 1: is more are complicated than popular legends suggest that concertainty
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  Speaker 1: had not stopped the stories because Salem is one has
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  Speaker 1: become a place where legends grow grow around historical shadows.
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  Speaker 1: People want to know where the executions happen. They want
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  Speaker 1: to stand where the condemn stood. They want to touch
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  Speaker 1: the past, and perhaps that is why stories have phantom
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  Speaker 1: figures and strange situations continue to surround places associated with executions.
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  Speaker 1: The legend says that dead men remain. The legends say
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  Speaker 1: that dead remain. History says the evidence is complicated, but
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between the two Salem ghost stories were born. But
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  Speaker 1: there is a strange thing about Salem. The ghosts aren't
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  Speaker 1: necessary scariest part. The scariest part is living people, accused people,
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  Speaker 1: people believe in rumors, people watching their neighbors disappear, people
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  Speaker 1: stay and then silently while incident. People were being condemned.
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  Speaker 1: The supernatural may frighten us, but Salem remains us that
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  Speaker 1: human beings can create their own horror. No ghosts needed,
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  Speaker 1: no demons needed, no curse is required, just absolute fear. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine you're walking through Salem at night. The crowds
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  Speaker 1: are gone, the souvenir shops or closed, the streets have
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  Speaker 1: become quiet. You pass an old cemetery, your footsteps at go.
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  Speaker 1: You hear the wind moving between the buildings. You look
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  Speaker 1: towards an old window. Nothing. You continue to another street,
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  Speaker 1: to another house, another dark doorway. Then you hear something
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  Speaker 1: a footstep behind you. You step, silence, You start walking again,
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  Speaker 1: another step closer. You turn around. Nobody. You laugh nervously.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was your imagination, so you continue. Then you
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  Speaker 1: hear the woman's voice, very faint, almost too faint to understand.
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  Speaker 1: You stop. The voices come again, you turn towards the
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  Speaker 1: sound nothing, only darkness, and then remember where you were.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Salem, a city built upon stories of accusation, death, fear,
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  Speaker 1: and the very scary supernatural. Suddenly you didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: keep walking. Maybe the real hunting isn't a ghost. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just a memory. Even every year, thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: come to Salem searching for witches and ghosts, But beneath
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  Speaker 1: the costumes and candles, it's something much, much heavier a warning.
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  Speaker 1: The Salem witch trials are demonstrated how quickly fear became certainty,
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  Speaker 1: how quickly super superstition became accusation, and how quickly accusation
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  Speaker 1: came became violence. The lesson is perhaps the most frightening
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  Speaker 1: than any ghost story, because ghosts belonged in the past.
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  Speaker 1: For belonging or for fear belongs to every generation. M
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  Speaker 1: hm hm hm Tonight, before we leave Salem, remember the names.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the people who were executed, Remember the families who
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  Speaker 1: suffered who remember Charles Corey, Remember those who died in prison,
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  Speaker 1: Remember those who were accused but survived, And remember the
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  Speaker 1: people who later recognized that the accusations had been totally wrong.
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  Speaker 1: History eventually turned against the trials. The court acknowledged the injustice.
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  Speaker 1: The people of Salem lived with consequences, but the stories remained.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that is why the city still feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's whispering, not because of the dead or necessarily walking
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  Speaker 1: among us, but the because the dead are actually are
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  Speaker 1: asking us not to forget. So if you ever find
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  Speaker 1: yourself in Salem after dark, take a walk, but pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to the wind, listen to the old buildings, listen
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  Speaker 1: to the silence her footsteps behind you. Don't immediately assumed
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  Speaker 1: it's a ghost. It becomes it. It could become another visitor.
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  Speaker 1: It can be the wind, It could be your own
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  Speaker 1: footsteps echoing strangely through the street. Or perhaps it could
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  Speaker 1: be nothing.
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  Speaker 5: It could be something else, something that's been waiting to
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  Speaker 5: see them shadows for more than three centuries, something.
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  Speaker 1: That remain remembers the fear, something that remembers the accusations,
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  Speaker 1: something that remembers that condemned. But if you suddenly feel
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  Speaker 1: as though someone is standing behind you, whatever you do,
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  Speaker 1: don't turn on too quickly, because sometimes the scariest question
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  Speaker 1: is it is there a ghost behind me? The scary
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  Speaker 1: question is what if there is this has been Salem,
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  Speaker 1: the Shadows of Witches, a city where history became legend,
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  Speaker 1: legend became folklore, and folklore became ghost stories. The lights
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  Speaker 1: are going out now, the streets are becoming quiet, the
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  Speaker 1: cemetery is waiting, and somewhere in the darkness seeing them,
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  Speaker 1: still remembering. I hope you enjoyed this episode of Ghost
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  Speaker 1: Stories and the Unusual Paranormal Podcast, and I hope that
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  Speaker 1: you have a warnful time and hope be able to
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  Speaker 1: sleep tonight, and for yours truly, Joe the Ghost Guy
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  Speaker 1: Ice a good night, and whatever you do, don't follow
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  Speaker 1: the footsteps until then. This is Joe the Ghost Guy.
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  Speaker 1: Sign enough Adios amigos, see you as soon
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  Speaker 4: As yes