SALEM
WITCHES: GHOST
PHOTOS ... REAL GHOSTS!
"A
skeptic is one when faced with the
handwriting on the wall, claims that
it is a forgery."
BY
GINA LANIER
Salem
graveyrd ghost photo (Above) sent
to us from Faye Beasly
Salem
is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts,
United States. The Salem witch trials,
which began in 1692 , resulted in
the execution of 20 people and the
imprisonment of between 175 and
200 others. Many say it is their
ghost haunting the quiet town. Restless
ghost seeking revenge for crimes
that they were not guilty of.
Many
believe the most haunted Salem hotspot
is the Old Burying Point Cemetery,
one of the oldest cemeteries in
Massachusetts, and the eledged the
site of the true "Witch Dungeon",
this is where Giles Corey was pressed
with large stones to death.
This
Ghost Photo Page contains what are
believed to be ghost in a photo
submitted by people Like you!
The
Salem Ghost Photos
HERE ARE A
COLLECTION OF SALEM MASS GHOST PHOTOS
SENT TO US BY MANY OF OUR READERS
AND THEIR STORIES.
Salem ghost photos
happen all the time to the unsuspecting
as well as the salted ghost hunter.
Many of the photos show orbs and
strange mist and blurs.
Salem
tombstone ghosts sent to us by Meryl
Stone
Salem
is a common name for towns and places,
particularly in the Western world.
In ancient times it was the name of
a locality in the Near East (Palestine),
and traditionally identified with
Jerusalem, before the name "Jerusalem"
was used.
SALEM'S REAL
GHOSTS by Bonnie Flynn Jack Hollister
Well the story goes
my boyfriend and I were in Salem,
Massachusetts for halloween last year
and he knows the town pretty well.
And so we decided to go to the Gallows
hill site (which is now a park) and
started taking pictures .
I Felt drawn to this clearing where
the trees almost made a circle of
sorts . I kept taking pictures and
more started happening .
The first 2 shots
are of an orb, you can see its moving
on its own so its not dust or rain
particles.
The third is a mysterious
mist that did not appear to the human
eye. No one was smoking and it was
not misty out.
the second to last
shot looks like a women with her head
bowed and hands in a prayer like stance
or even tied up !
the last picture
looks like a face of a young girl
and some blonde hair and a bonnet
like the Puritan style.
at that point I started to run! I
was scared to death!! I assure you
that these pictures are genuine proof
of Ghost's existence. they have not
been altered or tampered with . I've
tried to debunk these pictures but
can give no explanation of what else
it could be.
Salem
History
Many people associate
the city with the Salem Witch Trials
of 1692, which the city embraces both
as a source of tourism and culture
— police cars are adorned with
witch logos, a local public school
is known as the Witchcraft Heights
Elementary School, the Salem High
School football team is named The
Witches, and Gallows Hill, a site
of numerous public hangings, is currently
used as a playing field for various
sports. Salem also embraces its Maritime
History which is dominant on the city
seal with a motto that says, "To
the Farthest port of the rich east."
Salem also boasts the first National
Historic Site designated by Congress,
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
which protects Salem's historic waterfront.
Tourists know Salem
as a mix of important historical sites,
New Age and Wiccan boutiques, and
kitschy Halloween-themed and/or witch-themed
attractions. A statue of Elizabeth
Montgomery (Samantha Stephens in Bewitched)
was erected there in 2005.
Native Americans
called the area 'Naumkeag', meaning
'eel land'. Salem was founded at the
mouth of the Naumkeag River in 1626
by a company of fishermen from Cape
Ann led by Roger Conant, and incorporated
in 1629. The name 'Salem' is related
to the Hebrew word 'shalom' and Arabic
word 'salam', both meaning 'peace'.
Conant was later supplanted by John
Endecott, the governor assigned by
the Massachusetts Bay Company. Salem
originally included much of the North
Shore, including Marblehead, set off
in 1649. Most of the accused in the
Salem witch trials lived in nearby
'Salem Village', now Danvers. Salem
Village also included Peabody and
parts of present-day Beverly. Middleton,
Topsfield, Wenham and Manchester-by-the-Sea,
too, were once parts of Salem. One
of the most widely known aspects of
Salem is its witchcraft history, starting
with Abigail Williams, Betty Parris,
and their friends playing with a venus
glass and egg.
On February 26,
1775, patriots raised the drawbridge
at the North River, preventing British
Colonel Alexander Leslie and his 300
troops from seizing stores and ammunition
hidden in North Salem. During the
Revolution, the town became a center
for privateering. By 1790, Salem was
the sixth largest city in the country,
and a world famous seaport—particularly
in the China trade. Codfish was exported
to the West Indies and Europe. Sugar
and molasses were imported from the
West Indies, tea from China, and pepper
from Sumatra. Salem ships also visited
Africa, Russia, Japan and Australia.
During the War of 1812, privateering
resumed.
Prosperity would
leave the city with a wealth of fine
architecture, including Federal style
mansions designed by Samuel McIntire,
for whom the city's largest historic
district is named. Incorporated a
city on March 23rd 1836 [1], Salem
adopted a city seal in 1839 with the
motto "Divitis Indiae usque ad
ultimum sinum"—"To
the farthest port of the rich East."
Nathaniel Hawthorne was overseer of
the port from 1846 until 1849. He
worked in the Customs House near Pickering
Wharf, his setting for the beginning
of The Scarlet Letter. In 1858, an
amusement park was established at
Salem Willows, a peninsula jutting
into the harbor.
But shipping would
decline through the 19th century.
Salem and its silting harbor were
increasingly eclipsed by Boston and
New York. Consequently, the city turned
to manufacturing. Industries included
tanneries, shoe factories and the
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company. Large
parts of the mill town were destroyed
in the Great Salem Fire of 1914, which
began in the Korn Leather Factory.
More than 400 homes burned, leaving
3,500 families homeless. But much
of Salem's architectural legacy survived,
helping it develop as a center for
tourism.
Arthur Miller's
1952 play The Crucible dealt with
the witch trials of the 1690s. The
play, and the 1996 film version with
Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis,
were popular and commercial successes.
Gallows
Hill Ghosts
Mollie Stewart is
a licensed ghost hunter through the
International Ghost Hunters Society,
a member of the International Society
of Paranormal Investigators, and the
head of Paranormal Investigators of
New England, which specializes in
paranormal research and investigations
and scientific documentation of such.
Using EMF meters, infra-red non-contact
thermometers, tape recorders and cameras,
she has recorded ghost voices, (also
called Electronic Voice Phenomena)
and documented various ghosts in action!
Also
see: Ghost Among
us.
And:
Gallows Hill
Ghost
Now that I'm in
Salem, I do a lot of my own personal
night ghost hunts up at Gallow's Hill.
Says Mollie, this is where, back in
1692 they hung 19 innocent people
as "witches". Many people
associate the city with the Salem
witch trials of 1692, which the city
embraces both as a source of tourism
and culture -- police cars are adorned
with witch logos, a local public school
is known as the Witchcraft Heights
Elementary School, the Salem High
School football team is named The
Witches, and Gallows Hill, a site
of numerous public hangings, is currently
used as a playing field for various
sports.
Gallows
Hill Ghost Photo taken by Mollie Stewart.
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Rebecca
Nurse Memorial, Ghosts. erected 1885.
Located in the Rebecca Nurse Homestead
cemetery, Danvers, Massachusetts.
The inscription on the monument reads:
Rebecca Nurse, Yarmouth, England 1621.
Salem, Mass., 1692. "O Christian
Martyr/who for Truth could die/When
all about thee/owned the hideous lie!/The
world redeemed/from Superstition's
sway/Is breathing freer for thy sake
today." From the poem "Christian
Martyr," by John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Witch House
The only house remaining in Salem
with any direct ties to the Salem
Witch Trials. c.1642-1675. The Witch
House (also called The Corwin House),
was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin
and is the only structure still standing
in Salem, Massachusetts with direct
ties to the Salem Witch Trials of
1692.
As a local magistrate
and civic leader, Corwin was called
upon to investigate the claims of
diabolical activity when a surge of
witchcraft accusations arose in Salem
and neighboring communities. He served
on the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
which ultimately sent nineteen to
the gallows. All nineteen refused
to admit to witchcraft and maintained
their innocence.
The house is an
excellent example of 17th-century
architecture and was built some time
between 1642 and 1675. The house was
bought by Judge Corwin when he was
34 years old and he lived there for
more than forty years. Corwin is buried
in the nearby Broad Street Cemetery.
The house remained in the Corwin family
until the mid-1800s.
The house was moved
about 35 feet to its current location
in the 1940s when the adjacent street
was widened. At this time the house
was restored to look as it would have
in the 17th Century. The house is
now a museum, open seasonally and
is operated by the City of Salem.
All of the Salem
Ghost photos (Below) where sent to
us by Russ Hetrick.
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OUR REAL GHOSTS PICTURE GALLERY PAGES
submitted by our many web site visitors
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Here
are the most important things to
be careful of when experimenting
with taking ghost photographs:
1.Make sure that you have nothing
protruding in front of the camera
lens. Know where your camera strap
is at all times! Notice how many
so-called "ghost photos"
that you see look like camera straps
or like a finger.
2. Be sure that your lens is clean
and covered when not in use.
3. Make sure that the weather is
cooperating with your photographs.
By this, I mean make sure that it
is not raining or snowing. Round
balls of glowing light that are
photographed during a rain storm
are not exactly overwhelming proof
of the supernatural.
4. Make sure that conditions are
not damp, promoting moisture on
your camera lens.
5. Be sure to point the camera away
from reflective surfaces when using
a flash. Avoid mirrors and windows
in a house and polished tombstones
when shooting at night in a cemetery.
The light from the flash bouncing
off this surface can refract back
onto your camera lens and create
"orbs" that are not of
paranormal origins.
Debunking
Ghost Photos
Houdini,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many
other famous people worked together
to debunk fakes. The Society for
Psychical Research was founded in
1882. Some of the original members
were the poet Tennyson, Prime Minister
Gladstone, the scientist J.J.Thomson
(discoverer of the electron), Mark
Twain, William James, Lewis Carroll,
John Ruskin, and Sir Oliver Lodge.
Houdini
and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln
CREDIT: "Houdini
and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln."
Between 1920 and 1930. The American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular
Entertainment, 1870-1920, Library
of Congress.
Harry
Houdini was a well known debunker
of fake mediums and spiritualists.
His interest began after the death
of his mother, Cecilia Weiss.
Because of his background as an
illusionist, he recognized the techniques
of mediums who claimed to have contacted
the spirit world. Houdini became
a crusader against these charlatans
who bilked grieving families of
their money. He frequently attended
seances in disguise in order to
expose the mediums.
Houdini who could wriggle out of
almost any situation knew every
trick in the book. Margery, an American
medium, claimed she could summon
ghosts with the help of her dead
brother, Walter. The day Houdini
locked her in a wooden box, she
couldn't summon a single ghost.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator
of the famous Sherlock Holmes character,
was a contemporary and admirer of
Houdini's. Ironically, Doyle was
known for the logical explanations
in the Holmes stories, yet he believed
that Houdini's escapes and illusions
were a supernatural phenomena.
Are
These Real Ghost Photos?
In
1959 Mable Chinnery went to the
cemetery to visit the grave of her
mother, as any devoted daughter
is apt to do. She took some photos
of the gravesite and then turned
and took this picture of her husband
sitting alone in the car's passenger
seat. The film was developed and
this came out: somebody sitting
in the backseat wearing glasses,
clear as day. Mrs. Chinnery swore
that the "backseat driver"
was none other than her own mother...
whose gravesite she was standing
next to when she took the picture.
Ghost
photos are they definitive proof?
Of course not, since photos and
recordings can be hoaxed, and many
are open to interpretation. But
the photos in this article, are
considered to be authentic; that
is, not deliberately hoaxed or fabricated
digitally. The compelling aspect
of these photos is that, like the
ghost or spirit phenomenon itself,
they happened spontaneously. The
photographers were not trying to
take pictures of ghosts. Rather,
the photos were taken and quite
unexpectedly, the apparitions were
justcthere.
This
photo was taken in 1936 at Raynham
Hall in Norfolk, England, by two
photographers of Country Life magazine.
Raynham Hall was long reputed to
be haunted by the ghost of Lady
Dorothy Townshend, who died in 1726.
The ghost had been seen on many
occasions throughout the years when
it was spotted descending these
stairs by the Country Life photographers,
who quickly took a snapshot. This
is considered by many to be the
most highly regarded and reputable
photograph.
This
one became fairly well known after
it was released in December of 2003.
Hampton Court, near London, was
one of Henry VIII's favorite hangouts
(it's because of him that Anne Boleyn
is now a headless ghost roaming
the Tower of London). A fire door
inside the castle kept being opened
when no one was supposed to be around.
Guards checked the security cameras'
videotape... and spotted this figure
in period costume walking through
the door. Castle personnel swear
they don't know who did this, noting
that they don't even have a costume
that looks like this. Security was
concerned about a fire exit that
was often found open and checked
the footage to find this ethereal
figure opening and then closing
the doors. The figure appears to
be wearing long, flowing robes,
and could be a woman - maybe King
Henry's 3rd wife, Jane Seymour who
died on the premises shortly after
giving birth. This footage was taken
in December, 2003.
Freddy
Jackson was a mechanic in the Royal
Air Force in World War I. Freddy
Jackson's squadron served onboard
the H.M.S. Daedalus. Freddy Jackson
was killed in 1919 when an airplane
propeller hit him. Two days later
when the squadron assembled for
a group photo, Freddy Jackson faithfully
showed up, grinning behind the ear
of a fellow comrade. Guess nobody
bothered to tell Freddy Jackson
that he was dead. His face was widely
recognized in this photo by members
of the squadron.
FEATURED
STORIES & GHOST PHOTOS
Submitted
ghost photo from
John Clemens,
I was recently on a mission
trip to south-eastern Iowa.
The house in which I was staying
noises were frequently heard.
We continually heard laughter
coming from the guest bedroom
which was not being used. Footsteps
were also heard, although less
frequently than the laughter.
The feet outside our door were
usually heard shortly after
the laughter. It would occur
from 2am to about 5am. It happened
most of the nights we stayed
in the house. The woman that
owned the house told us that
the house was the site of a
lynching.
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