Danvers state hospital salem witch trials

Elizabeth Howe. George Jacobs Sr. The Salem Witch Trials took place in a settlement within the Massachusetts Bay Colony named Salem which, at the time of the trials in , consisted of two sections: Salem town, which is now modern-day Salem, and Salem Village, which is now modern-day Danvers.

Abigail is a mean and vindictive person who always wants her way, no matter who she hurts. Portions of Danvers State Hospital were shut down in Most of it closed in before a permanent shutdown in , after which the site became a popular destination for thrill-seeking kids looking for a good scare.

The town became known in the second half of the s for its Danvers onions. No onions appear to be grown there commercially today Jun 17, There are two ways to get there.

Thirteen women and two men were executed. The Salem witch trials followed in —93, culminating in the executions of 20 people.

Five others died in jail. List of people executed for witchcraft. However, the attic soon became off-limits that were self-imposed after seeing the spirit of an elderly woman in the corner of the darkened attic, scowling at her and her siblings. That was not the only encounter with this particular apparition as she claimed that she was awoken several times at night by the same scowling spirit as it would slowly pull the covers straight off her bed.

Unsurprisingly, the asylum closed in As it sat abandoned, this opened the flood gates for paranormal investigators and ghost hunters to explore the haunted site. Many groups started off by doing walkthroughs of the abandoned asylum. Almost instantly the audible cries and moans of the spirits said to be haunting the asylum are quite numerous. Electronic voice phenomenon EVPs , is something that has captured and occurring at a fairly high level.

Only near the closing of the asylum was it discovered to have small, underground tunnels connecting the buildings. In the property was sold to a real estate developer and a series of the connecting buildings were torn down. In their place has gone a small collection of condo apartments.

Not all of the buildings were totally demolished as those underground tunnels prevent this to a degree. With such sacred ground, the developers have not constructed anything new on that part of the land. People who live in the apartments now claim to hear moans and screams at night, theorized to be from the spirits still tied to the land. Many a Danvers police officer has responded to complaints of the terrifying noises at night only to find a desolate and empty lot, but night after night the screams are said to remain heard.

It tells the story of a work crew assigned to remove asbestos from an abandoned mental institution. It was always scary. You can really feel the pain of the people that went through Danvers. All of that stuff was sitting there. The federal government walked away from it about thirty years ago. It was a terrifying location. Posted in Haunted Hospitals and Real Haunts.

William Griggs, it was pronounced that the strange behavior was the result of bewitchment. Over the next nine months hysteria spread throughout Essex County, and resulted in more than accused of witchcraft, 20 executions, five jail deaths, and countless lives changed forever by the time it ended. The villagers worst fear was confirmed. The Devil was loose in Salem Village. In , Salem Village was renamed Danvers, for settler Danvers Osborn, and was officially incorporated as the town of Danvers in Today, Danvers is best-known for its connection to the witchcraft trials, the Danvers State Hospital, a psychiatric institution which opened in and closed in , and a large shopping district with the Liberty Tree Mall as its centerpiece.

Still generally a small and rural town, with the major highways Interstate 95 and US Route 1 running through it, Danvers has a population of approximately 26, today. Special thanks to Marilynne K. Welcome to Danvers. More About Welcome to Danvers According to historian Emerson Baker, most other New England towns of the time retained a minister for an average of 22 years.