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The Day Salem Lost Its Mind | You Are There - “Witchcraft Trials at Salem” (1947)

A classic historical courtroom drama from the golden age of radio — plus bonus commentary after the show. You Are There – “Witchcraft Trials at Salem” (1947) Step back into the golden age of radio with You Are There, the groundbreaking documentary drama series that placed CBS reporters directly ins…

The Strange & Forgotten - EP02 - Salem Witch Trials

In Salem Village in 1692, an accusation didn’t need to be seen to become evidence. Young girls claimed they were being tormented by invisible forces. Neighbours accused neighbours. Children testified against adults. And people found themselves answering for crimes they could not possibly prove they…

The Iconic Tales from the Salem Witch Trials

UNEXPLAINED: The Iconic Tales from the Salem Witch Trials Join Josh as he revisits some of the most iconic stories from the Salem Witch Trials. From Tituba and Bridget Bishop to Rebecca Nurse, George Burroughs, and Giles Corey, we’ll look at the people who were accused of witchcraft, the bizarre e…

The Salem Witch Trials: How the Accusations Began and the Trials Ended

How did fear, rumor, and religious extremism turn neighbors against one another in colonial Massachusetts? This episode explores the Salem witch trials from the first mysterious fits in Reverend Samuel Parris’s household to the accusations, interrogations, executions, and eventual collapse of the c…

Salem Witch Hunts Mini Primer

This month, Amanda is going back in time to the Salem Witch Hunts of 1692-1693. Instead of doing the primer solo, she is joined by Margo Burns, a Salem Witch Hunts historian and direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on social media @murdermfiction (BlueSky & In…

Salem Witch Trials | A Descendant Remembers | 5

In the midst of the public hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials, a respected Puritan woman named Rebecca Nurse was accused of using witchcraft to “afflict” girls in Salem. Despite her status as a pious church member, Nurse became one of the many innocent people to stand trial and be executed…

Psychology of a Witch Hunt: The Salem Witch Trials

In this episode of Psych Lore & Insights, Sarah and Steve revisit the Salem witch trials through the people accused, the community that feared them, and the courts that treated spectral claims as evidence. Steve traces the accusations from the first reported fits to the trials and executions, inclu…

Rebecca Nurse: "Innocent as the Child Unborn"

In June 1692, a Salem jury found 71-year-old Rebecca Nurse not guilty of witchcraft. The court refused to accept it, and three weeks later she was hanged. In the second of three Salem episodes, host Xtina Rose follows the respected church grandmother who proved that no one in Salem Village was safe…

The Salem Witch By Historian and Author Daniel Gagnon

She was 71 years old. A grandmother. A respected woman in her community. And Salem decided she was a witch.Tonight on The Francesca Luca Show, I’m joined by historian and author Daniel A. Gagnon, whose fascinating book, A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse, uncovers…

The Salem Witch Trials: When a Town Hanged Its Own

It started with two little girls twitching and screaming in a cold New England parlour. Within a year, it had become a panic that hanged twenty innocent people and made the name of a single Massachusetts village a byword for hysteria and injustice forever: Salem. This episode follows sixteen ninety…