The Haunting Of The Salem Witch Trials
The Haunting Of The Salem Witch Trials
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Did one of America’s darkest chapters leave behind spiritual evidence?
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Shackles, medieval tool for deprivation of liberty
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Portrait de la Duchesse de Chevreuse par Claude Deruet attributed to Claude Deruet
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The angel of death. Darkness demon. Photomanipulation
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Witch Weathervane
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Witch Trial
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Witch Hats On Display At Vendor’s Booth On The Essex St. Pedestrian Mall
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Claudette Colbert in Maid of Salem
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The Duckingstool by Charles Stanley Reinhart
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Abigail/1702 Rehearsal
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Engraving depicting the arrest of a witc
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The Crucible
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Winter landscape with ”amusement on the ice”, by Van der Neer Aert, 17th Century, oil on canvas,
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Anatomy of the heart and arterial blood vessels, from De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgia by John Arderne, Latin manuscript, 15th Century.
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Salem Witch Trial Memorial From Charter Street Cemetery
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Massachusetts, 1909, Salem, Salem Neck, Marblehead, Nalem Harbor, Massachusetts State Atlas
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The Trial of a Witch, 17th century Puritan America. Illustration for the play Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary E Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman), American novelist and playwright. Wood engraving 1892.
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Portrait of Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734), German physician and chemist, engraving from Opusculum chimico-physico-medicum, Halae Magdeburgicae, 1740, engraving
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Him Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, fall of rebel angels
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Engraving of a Suspect Fainting Before Judge During Witch Hunt Trial by Darley
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The Legend Of Salem: ‘The Rev, George Burroughs Was Accused Of Witchcraft On The Evidence Of Feats Of Strength, Tried, Hung, And Buried Beneath The Gallows’ Illus, In: Frank Leslie’S Illustrated Newspaper, V, 31, (1871 Feb, 4), P, 345.
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Arnoldo asking in vain for news of Angiola Maria, illustration for Angiola Maria, novel by Giulio Carcano (1812-1884), engraving by Gallieni after drawing by Tofani, published by Paolo Carrara, 1874, Milan
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The house of the Seven Gables, 17th century, the mansion that gave the title to the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), Salem, Massachusetts, USA
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Theophraste Renaudot, 17th century French physician, philanthropist, and journalist,
Religious people are worse than diarrhea
Some animals were accused too, there were 2 dogs, one little girl blame a dog for her symptoms, the other one I’m not sure how they came to it, but people dod believe that witches had animals as familiar helping them, they were apparently shot in the head, so at least they had more…pain free and quick death, it would have been cool for them to mention it, but well…they usually leaves very interesting facts behind
Funny you don’t here about new haunting when there new technology 🤔
Cannot believe this building was built in 1600s, Really Good House
Say swear lmao
LOL ‘be a puritan’ 😂
Stories like this convince me (as someone who is religious in the most basic sense of the word) that religion historically has done more harm than good. That’s so sad that the victims didn’t even get the dignity of a marked burial site. I hope they are resting in peace, and the people who killed them are paying for it in the afterlife.
We just started reading ‘The Crucible’ in my English class, figured I’d come back for nostalgia
My ancestor was Margret Scott so seeing this makes me so interested.
Side story for fun: I told one of my friends that and we were joking that I was a witch and when I mentioned weird things did happen to me a lot as a joke a black cat walked by and now he’s scared of me 💀
The Salem witch trials is a historical testament to the dangers of theocracy, mass hysteria, and hive mind mob mentality. People have a bad habit of stating opinions, theories, etc. like they’re a matter of fact (as well as making assumptions and jumping to conclusions by way of speculation) based on no such substantial evidence to suggest objective truth which is imperative for proof (especially in regards to what could be serious allegations of foul play, perpetuated dangerous rhetoric, i.e., "witch hunts" due to theocratic mass hysteria and hive mind mob mentality). I’d advise people to reevaluate the way in which they think and speak concerning such things.
Something I never thought about until recently is, why did no one wonder why the “witches” didn’t try to escape execution?
Look I’m no expert on witchcraft but wouldn’t a real witch have some sort of spell to escape or teleport away from the trial?
Don’t get me wrong, I get that the trials were a fairly big hoax and there’s a good chance many of the people accused of witchcraft were innocent, but if I’m some bystander seeing someone accused of witchcraft I’m thinking, “why not use a spell to get away and flee to the woods?”.
1600s: "Yup, that’s a witch".
2000s: "Yup, that’s a Karen".
Shame we can’t burn a Karen at the stake, though.
14:25 ***except for a few who were likely forced ie Tituba and maybe <10 people who actually “practiced witchcraft” across the entirety of the witch trials in the US
You talk a lot
That judge is funniest judge,
Damn, I remember reading the crucible in high school. Arthur Miller used history to tell a messed up, but cool story.
“Take its” really? Did that really say “take it”
using this to revise for a level history😭
How did he possibly hear take it from that?
The judges should have understood that if the accused witches couldn’t save themselves from the trial, they were not witches.
It’s me, Tituba, the G H O S T 😂
I grew up in va beach and there is a very popular local legend of ‘The Pungo Witch’ That’d be sweet to see.
👻Ryan can believe in demons and ghosts but not witchcraft?? Thats witchcraft all in itself.🧐
Women: *Breathes*
Town: Yup, That’s a witch right there
shlay
“Like a compass always finds north, an accusing man’s finger always finds a woman”
you 2 gas are so funny
they were all high as a kite
I just laugh at the fact this was the best time for anyone who had beef with someone, they would just accuse them and be so extra about it💀
Are ‘Ghosts’ real, simple answer No-people sleep when they day till the day Jesus Christ comes down from heaven and shouts everyone awake, it is known as the day of rapture or in better terms the snatching up. What you guys refer to as ‘Ghosts’ are in fact demonic and it is ALWAYS demonic. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and repent. Amen.
god i love the crucible
It’s a mixture of a few things tbh – Ergot Fungus is a hellova drug, Bored kids, jealousy and gossip, a community who were deeply superstitious which led to mass hysteria – and there you have it.
Just think all of the weather presenters would be burned for predicting the weather
That voice sounded like Ryan doing a voice over to make it sound like it was a ghost 😂
I mean, witchcraft is real, just not what people think it is, it’s not like how it is in the movies or like Harry potter, it’s more like a spirituality or religion
So i had to read a puritan journal in college and the punishment for "buggary" was that they would be buried with all the animals involved
Someone got hung there and there is a group of ghosts called the hunglings . Shane: Hi ya ghosts and demons! Ready to be annoyed?
it has nothing to do with "being mad" that is just lazy thinking. it has to do with basic evolutionary psychology. all living beings have systems that process information in order to survive, in our case is the brain, human brain is a survival computer, our instincts act on basis of simple probabilistic analysis of what helps us to survive, like complying with the group because this fosters cooperation. All morality really is an expression of this instincts to foster cooperation in a group because this increases the chances to gather more resources and thus get superior nourishment, fight back against predators that individually are superior to us, and hunt larger prays who in turn offer more nourishment.
this instincts combine with our imagination and senses, because imagining false threats only moves you away from a place but it doesn’t kill you while ignoring a noise or something like that could mean that a predator is going to attack us and kill us. this is why all our myths are related to the wild and the lack of control and beasts.
18:20 Who was it that made those people dance in olden France?!
Love that Watcher has a puppet history about this event.
Good episode, one thing though is you forgot to mention that one person pressed to death, that might’ve been worth investigating, otherwise great episode though
why would the ghost say "take it" of all things?
It’s just wind lmao
this totally could’ve been a true crime episode too
so the wole thing was a set up
I gotta say it doesn’t take a genius to say why a slave would readily admit to something that carries a death penalty.
I love Salem MA one of my friends and i visited a few times. it gets crowded every October just a heads up. hard to find parking.
They didn’t burn witches, they burned women.
14:15 Dude… That is literally happening right now in our day.
what those puritans did in Salem was good old fashioned, premeditated murder , in the name of God. mistakes were made.
I’m with shane on the EVPs in this episode, mostly garbage. They sound like feet crunching in the snow, not voices.