S3 Ep24: The Salem Witch Trials

Rudolf Diesel built the world's first internal combustion engine and had hopes it would help lift people out of poverty and prevent the devastation caused by mining for fossil fuels. He had friends and enemies in high places. And so, when he vanished off a boat in the middle of t ...  Show more

When Carl Tanzler was very young, he claimed a dead relative of nobility came to him and showed him the woman he would eventually marry. He spent the next four decades in search of the woman, and when he found her, he never let her go, even long after she had died.*Content warnin ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the outbreak of witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692-3, centred on Salem, which led to the execution of twenty people, with more dying in prison before or after trial. Some were men, including Giles Corey who died after being pressed with heavy ro ...  Show more

This week the boys reach the third chapter in the story of the Salem Witch Trials and as the number of witch allegations reaches new heights across New England, a series of gruesome executions would begin...
 

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The Salem Witch Trials weren’t just about witches: they were about power, fear, and survival. In 1692, hundreds were accused, dozens imprisoned, and twenty executed in a frenzy that gripped New England. Morgan and Kaelyn unravel how suspicion and paranoia consumed Salem, leaving ...  Show more

In this, Episode 500, the boys begin the story of one of the darkest chapters in New England's History. Traveling all the way back to The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, satanic panic sweeps across Massachusetts and the Puritan Church's fear of the Devil paves a path for the hangi ...