Witches in Salem or Something Much Darker? Th...

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday!!On August 20, 1989, two brothers went to the movies and came home to a nightmare. Their wealthy Beverly Hills parents, José and Kitty Menendez, were found brutally murdered inside their mansion, and what looked like a shocking home invasion quickly beca ...  Show more

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday!!Shayna Hubers was smart, beautiful, and ambitious... but beneath the surface was a deep darkness no one saw coming. When her boyfriend, Ryan Poston, tried to leave the relationship, Shayna’s obsession spiraled out of control. What came next was a shocki ...  Show more

Hi friends, happy Wednesday!So the other night I was deep into my usual bedtime routine of doomscrolling, and I stumbled across this headline that said: “DID YOU KNOW: The Last Witch Trial Was in 1944.”And I was like… I’m sorry, what? 1944? Like while the rest of the world was fi ...  Show more

Born in a storm and cackling instead of crying, Mother Shipton wasn’t your average baby—she was England’s most powerful witch and prophetess. From dark rumors about her mysterious birth in a Yorkshire cave to a lifetime of magic and prophecy, her story has haunted England for cen ...  Show more

Rachel Christ is the Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum. We met at the museum for a great discussion about the history of witchcraft, the Salem crisis in context with the witch hunts in Europe, and modern witch hunts, as well as many other things. For more details, p ...  Show more

For more than two centuries, between the late 1400s and early 1700s, a terror of witches gripped Europe. From Scotland to Spain, thousands of people were accused, tortured and executed. But as the hysteria faded in Europe, it crossed the Atlantic. In 1692, in New England, it took ...  Show more