The Salem Witch Trials: When a Town Hanged Its Own

<p>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.</p><p>This episode follows sixteen ninety-two from the first fits to the gallows — the enslaved woman's confession that lit the fuse, the "spectral evidence" no one could disprove, the courtroom theatre, Giles Corey crushed beneath the stones — and what really drove a community to kill its own neighbours. Plus the myth almost everyone gets wrong: no one in Salem was burned at the stake.</p><p>New dark story every day. Follow Six Feet of History wherever you listen.</p><p>#History #DarkHistory #HistoryPodcast #SalemWitchTrials #TrueHistory / #Salem1692 #WitchHunt #ColonialHistory #MassHysteria #SixFeetOfHistory</p><p>Salem witch trials, Salem 1692, witch hunt, spectral evidence, Giles Corey, Tituba, Cotton Mather, mass hysteria, dark history, history podcast, colonial America, Puritans, Rebecca Nurse, ergot theory, injustice, true history, Massachusetts, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Six Feet of History, witchcraft</p>