Haunted Salem
18 haunted places in Salem, Massachusetts
Salem is home to 18 haunted locations, including mansions, hotels and museums. Explore the paranormal history of Massachusetts's most haunted places.
Haunted Mansions (4)
Joshua Ward House
The Joshua Ward House at 148 Washington Street stands as one of Salem's most haunted buildings, built directly atop grou...
Ropes Mansion
The Ropes Mansion stands as one of Salem's most beautiful—and most haunted—historic homes, a Georgian Colonial masterpie...
The House of Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables stands as one of New England's oldest surviving wooden mansions and one of Salem's most ha...
The Witch House
The Witch House at 310 Essex Street is the only remaining structure in Salem with direct ties to the Salem witch trials...
Haunted Hotels (3)
Daniels House
The Daniels House is the oldest bed and breakfast in the country, constructed in 1667 by Stephen Daniels I and Stephen D...
Hawthorne Hotel
The Hawthorne Hotel rises six stories above Washington Square in the heart of Salem, a Colonial Revival landmark built i...
The Salem Inn
The Salem Inn occupies three historic houses on Summer Street: the West House, built in 1834 by Captain Nathaniel West,...
Haunted Museums (3)
Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum traces its origins to 1799, when twenty-two Salem sea captains who had sailed beyond the Cape o...
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Museum occupies one of the most significant sites in American history—a Gothic Revival church building o...
Witch Dungeon Museum
The Witch Dungeon Museum occupies a building steeped in layered history—a Stick Style chapel constructed in 1897 for the...
Haunted Cemeteries (2)
Haunted Restaurants (1)
Other Haunted Places (5)
Derby Wharf
Derby Wharf stretches nearly half a mile into Salem Harbor, a stone finger pointing toward the open sea. Built beginning...
Gallows Hill Park
Gallows Hill sits on the outskirts of Salem, a dark scar on the landscape that witnessed one of America's greatest misca...
Pickering Wharf
Pickering Wharf sits on land that was once the beating heart of Salem's maritime empire, a waterfront that in the eighte...
Proctor's Ledge Memorial
Proctor's Ledge is the confirmed site where nineteen innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials of 1692,...
Murphy Funeral Home
Murphy Funeral Home has served Salem's families since 1893, when Patrick W. Murphy founded one of the city's first funer...