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...
by Maledicta | Jan 6, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first picked up Colin Dickey’s book, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. But before long, I was spellbound, caught up in his narrative about haunting in America, from Salem to New Orleans to Detroit and even to...
