by Maledicta | Jul 31, 2018 | Interesting People, Weird Tourism
How a notorious 19th century (accused) axe murderer became today’s pop culture icon “Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother Forty Whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father Forty-One.” Thanks to the schoolyard rhyme, even...
by Maledicta | Mar 18, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
How Salem went from executing witches to marketing them In 1692, 185 people were accused of witchcraft in Salem. Over the course of nine paranoid months, 19 of them were executed. Today, especially during Halloween season, Salem is filled once again with...
