If you’re considering this tour, be advised that our group did not visit any of the sites listed in the “what to expect” section of this listing, which was disappointing. That being said, we still enjoyed the experience. The tour group was rather large, but our guide had a microphone, which was really helpful. Our guide was fun, knowledgeable, and engaging. Her stories and insight really gave us an understanding of the witch trials, and that time period, in general. We definitely learned a lot!
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Nov 2022
Hello Kate, while we're glad to hear you enjoyed the tour.
The trials were 330 years ago and the buildings are gone. The Witch House is the home of Judge Corwin. It's called the witch house because of his ties to the witch trials. We know the site of the executions, but nobody knows what tree was used to hang the witches. Nobody knows if the tree still exists. And the debate rages as to whether they used a tree for the first hanging and then built a gallows. We know the locations of many of the events. Every tour in Salem has the same issue, but at least our tour shows pictures we've found from old books of people's homes and locations where events happened that are too far to walk. We walk about a mile because many locations were centered in the downtown area.