She’s Listing Out All The Things You Should Do If You Want To Visit Salem
It’s spooky season, and that means the witching hour has begun. One of my Halloween traditions is to watch the original Hocus Pocus movie from 1993, the classic Salem witch movie with Bette Midler as Winifred Sanderson.
Some of my favorite memories of Halloween have been watching that movie with my mom. And the sequel recently released by Disney, Hocus Pocus 2, is set in modern-day Salem with a flashback opening scene.
If you’ve never visited Salem but would like to one day, one Tiktoker named Brittany, who goes by @ghoulplease_, shared her favorite places to visit in the town the movie was set in.
“Things to do in Salem, Massachusetts,” Brittany started out by saying in her video. “Make a witch broom and a spell book at the Witchery. Visit all of the cemeteries.”
“See the Hocus Pocus locations. Stay at the haunted Hawthorne Hotel. See Omen’s Tarot Wall. Visit Pioneer Village. Pay your respects at Proctor’s Ledge. Admire the Grimshaw House.”
Each of these places was just as beautiful as the next, especially the cemetery she showed. I once took a history class in the summer during college. For one of the lessons, we went to one of the oldest cemeteries in town and helped restore a grave marker of an enslaved woman, Rachel.
Walking through the tombstones, you could almost feel the history. I imagine that is what walking through the cemeteries of Salem is like. Feeling all the history, paying respects to the people that we read and learn about in school and books.
There are also more whimsical things to do as well.
“Have a witchy photoshoot at Witch Pix,” she continued. “Visit Allison’s House and enjoy the garden. Get a reading at Pentagram. Visit the Satanic Temple. Spend your life savings at Emporium32. Coven’s Cottage is the best.”
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“Get a coffee with cereal milk. Visit the Black Veil Shoppe. Reflect at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Visit the Witch House and the oldest Witch Shop in Salem. Happy Halloween at the Halloween Museum. Learn about the Pickering House.”
I want to go to Salem and visit every place she has listed, and that is only the first video. She shared a second one with even more places to visit.
“Hop on the Salem Trolley. Shop at Coven,” she said. “Go inside Allison’s house…the Ropes Mansion. Check out the Friendship of Salem (ship). Visit the oldest candy company in the country. People watch at the Hocus Pocus filming locations.”
“Visit the Derby House and relax in the backyard garden. Visit the Salem Witch Board Museum and learn about the history of Ouija Boards.”
“Shop at Blackcraft Salem, it’s a new shop in Salem. Buy a beeswax candle at Beverly Bees. Visit the Witch Mansion and International Monster Museum. Enjoy high tea at Jolie Tea Company. Shop at Nocturne, a store inspired by the night. Visit the John Ward House.”
There is so much to do in Salem, so much to see, that I don’t think I could list them all. One of the things on my bucket list is to visit Salem, and with the help of this list, I hope to do the city justice someday.
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