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Things to Do in Salem, MA – Shops, Tours, Haunted Locations, Psychics, Museums and More

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by weiselcantlin2 in Haunted Cemeteries, Haunted Hotels, Haunted Mansions, Haunted Tavern, Haunted Theaters, MA, Massachusetts, Tarot Readings, Uncategorized

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Several friends, my husband and I are planning a trip to “The Witch City” of Salem, MA.  It is not only a ghostly city, but also home to on of the most significant seaports in America.  It is home to the 1692 historical witch trials.  With many shop, such as,  New Age and Wiccan boutiques, kitschy Halloween, witch-themed attractions and a vibrant downtown that has more than 60 restaurants, cafes and coffee shops, the 15th Annual Retailers Association of Massachusetts names Salem as the best place to shop.

If you plan on visiting, be sure to plan in advance which shops, museums or haunted locations you would like to visit.  There is simply too much to see in just one weekend.

Below you will find a great selection of museums, cemeteries, historical homes, shops, tours, mock witch trials and much more.  I’m sure you will find something to satisfy everyone.  If you are interested in stopping in to a haunted house, be sure to check the website offered with many locations that I will cover at a later time.  As you narrow your choices, be sure to contact the location to ensure they are operating during the time of your visit.  Some of the locations are seasonal and close after October or November and open again around April.

Cemeteries:

  • Burying Point – Charter Street – The oldest cemetery in Salem contains the grave sites of Mayflower voyagers and John Hathorne, Judge from the Salem witch trials.

Historical Houses and Museums:

  • Corwin House/Witch House – 310 Essex Street – The only structure still standing with direct ties to the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • Salem Witch Museum – 19 1/2 Washington Sq N. – Salem’s most visited museum focuses on the Witch Trials of 1692.
  • Witch History Museum – 283R Derby Street – Hear the untold stories of the witch trials.  Open April through November.
  • Chestnut Street – The antique houses on this street showcase one of the most architecturally beautiful streets in America.
  • Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery – 285 Derby Street, Salem – Hollywood FX artists have reproduced life sized monsters from over 30 different horror movies.
  • House of Seven Gables – 54 Turner Street – Includes a guided tour of the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion (The House of the Seven Gables), a visit to the Nathaniel Hawthorne House, the Counting House, the Colonial Revival Gardens, and the waterfront.
  • Museum Place – East India Square – This shopping mall offers specialty shops, , home to a single family for over 5 generationsan eatery and 3 screen movie theater and home of the Nightmare Factory, Salem’s oldest haunted house.
  • Phillips Street – 34 Chestnut Street – This is a federal style mansion that showcases 5 generations of artifacts.
  • Pickering House – 18 Broad Street – The oldest home in America, home to a single family for more than 3 1/2 centuries.
  • Salem Wax Museum – 288 Derby Street
  • Salem’s Witch Village – 282 Derby Street – Discover the myths and facts about witchcraft.  Hysteria Pass covers admission to the Wax Museum and the Witch Village.  Open year round.
  • Salem Witch Museum – 32 Derby Square – A great overview of the ares history and attractions.

Tours:

  • Salem Trolley – 8 Central Street – One hour tours through Salem with all day shuttle service.
  • The Salem Witch Walk – 125 Essex Street – Join Salem Witches bless you, take you on a tour of a graveyard and teach you the truth about different types of witchcraft.
  • Witch City Segway – 283R Derby Street – a two hour tour through the city’s attractions on a Segway.

Witch Trials:

  • Witch Dungeon Museum – 16 Linde Street – Presentation of witch trial based on the 1692 actual transcripts.  Open April through November.

Occult, Witches and Psychics – Stores, Card Readers, Mediums, etc.:

  • Enchanted Magickal Shop – 98 Wharf St. –  H.P. Laurie Cabot’s new shop.  She was famed as the original owner of the first witch shop ever.  (Be sure to call for an appointment for tarot readings!)  Robyn Mortola is fantastic!
  • Lori Bruno – 63R Pickering Wharf
  • Omen – 184 Essex St.
  • Leanne Marrama – 246 Essex

Shopping:

  • Pickering Wharf – Derby Street – Featuring harbor tours and cruises, home to many boutiques, including occult and Wiccan shops.
  • Enchanted Magickal Shop – 98 Wharf St. –  H.P. Laurie Cabot’s new shop.  She was famed as the original owner of the first witch shop ever.  (Be sure to call for an appointment for tarot readings!)

Miscellaneous:

  • Gallows Hill: The Witchcraft and Ghost Experience – 7 Lynde Street

This is an incomplete list as there is just so much to do.  These are all great places to start.

For a list of haunted locations, some of which (or witch) I will be covering the histories of here on this blog can be found by visiting the site, Salem MA Witch City Ghosts.

Please comment with your favorite location in Salem if you have visited in the past and we will report back after our visit.

Sources

  1. Salem Massachusetts – The City Guide (Website)
  2. Haunted Places to Go – Salem, MA
  3. Salem – Still Making History

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My First Tarot Reading – Part 2 – Reasons Behind My Own Paranormal Activity

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by weiselcantlin2 in Haunted Mansions, MA, Massachusetts, Tarot Readings

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This is part 2 of my amazing Tarot reading by Robin Mortola from Enchanted at Salem, MA’s Pickering Wharf.

For the first portion of the reading, right click this link and pull it up in a new tab or window: My First Tarot Reading – Part 1 – My Purpose in Life.  In this portion, I will share with you what I learned about the paranormal activity I’ve had surrounding me since I was 14.

Robyn paused for a moment and closed her eyes, holding her hands over the Tarot cards.

She told me, before I could offer the information, that I had three children.  I remember when I was young that my mother had a reading but I can’t remember if it was a palm reading or tarot reading.  When she returned she shared all the details with me.  Several predictions came true not long after.  I held onto the information that was the most important to me at the time.  The reader had told her I would have three children, two boys and a girl.  I was young, probably between 13-16.  I can’t quite recall but I do know it was before I had found the love of my life.

As time went on I got married and had my first child, a son.  When I became pregnant a year later, I recalled the information my mother had given me and wondered if this child was my boy or girl.  After two months, I miscarried.  Two months later I was pregnant with my second son.  I never had other children.  In my mind, the baby I had lost was my daughter.  I was always very close to my mother and wanted that kind of relationship with a daughter.  I felt for a long time that there was something missing.

I was relieved to hear that she too saw 3 children.  Every palm reading I had I was told the same.  There were so many times when I felt her presence with me.  I have felt knees or feet pushing on the back of my seat when no one was behind me in the car.  Doors in my house have jiggling handles and they open and close with no cross wind.  We hear footsteps in the hall; even my son’s girlfriend, Nichole has seen what she describes as shadow people near the stairs in the hallway.  The dog even stares at the stairwell and the landing intently with his ears at attention.  (He doesn’t bark though.)  We have even gotten tapped on the shoulder and heard voices when we were in a hotel room at Disney World.

There was an instance recently where I was in the living room and my son’s friend was in the kitchen and we both asked each other “What?” at the same time.  We had heard a female voice coming from the area between the two rooms.  No one else was downstairs.

The night before the reading I walked past the television and out of the room to talk to my husband in his office.  After about a minute into our conversation, the TV turned on.

Having had experiences since I was about 13 or 14, as described in another post of mine, Where The Ghosts Live, I have gotten used to the noises and activity.  Knowing that my husband and I were headed to a psychic fair (don’t think I’m losing my mind when I say this, but,) just before we left the house, I spoke out loud, “If there is someone here and you want to make yourself known, tonight would be the night.  You have always been welcome around me and will continue to be but I would love to know who your are.

As the reading continued, she shared some very wonderful information.

When Robyn touched on me having 3 children, I was not expecting what was to come.  It was as if she was communicating with her directly.  She told me that I was further along than I thought, close to my third month when I lost her.  There was a reason she wasn’t born.  She didn’t offer what the reason was and because she didn’t offer, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know so I didn’t ask.

She asked if I wanted to know if the baby was a boy or girl.  I told her that I thought I already knew.  She confirmed that she was a girl without any information from me.  “She is OK,” she said.  “She is around your oldest son more than she is around you.  She is around all the time but she really has a strong connection with him.”

Without prior knowledge of the above instances that had been happening at home, after a long meditative pause Robyn said, “She can actually manifest pretty well.  So if you are seeing things in your house, that’s her.”  So I had to ask, “Is there any way to ask if she turned the television on last night?”  “Oh, she does more than that.  She turns on televisions and she likes to annoy the girlfriend.  She moves her stuff.”  When I inquired if she liked Nichole, she said, “She comes across as a jokester.  She’s just being playful.  She’s saying, ‘I like to play with her.'”  I didn’t catch her say that during the reading but I had recorded it and realized when I played it back.  I wish I would have asked if she was there actually talking to Robyn.

She went on to say, “When you’re having a really bad day, that’s when you’re going to feel her.  She’s the one who makes you laugh out of nowhere.  That’s the energy she has, a really good energy.”  Then she reiterated the attachment with Dan and that she likes to hide his girlfriend’s stuff.

After the reading I sent a text to Nichole.  “Do you ever find that your things are not where you left them when you are at our house?”  To which she replied, “Yessssssss!!”  “Seriously.  I will put a shirt in the top portion of my bag and when I go to get it, it’s all the way at the bottom.  Why?”  When I told her she was a little freaked out but comforted by the fact that what she had seen and what was going on was all done out of fun and that she wasn’t going crazy or in any danger.

After a brief pause she recalled how she had come into the house the other night and the lotion in her bag knocked into the staircase railing and hit the wood floor.  We both heard it hit.  She stood there for at least a minute and a half looking for it before realizing it was 3 or 4 steps up the staircase on the rug.  She pointed out that we had both heard it hit the floor.  I guess it may not be fair, but I feel that my daughter is going to start getting blamed every time something gets misplaced, even if it wasn’t her doing.  This lightheartedness puts me at ease.

My Grandfather

1013357_10151705492388456_421094573_nWe moved on to the next subject and Robyn asked if my son had a medal that belonged to a great grandfather figure on my paternal side.  I had never met my paternal grandfather’s father.  This information did fit the grandfather on my mother’s side.  She asked if he had been like a father figure to me.  Indeed he had.  My grandfather (the tallest man, in the picture on the left) spent a lot of time with me throughout my life and I was very close to him.  He lived out of state but I would spend a few weeks there every summer growing up and he visited us often here.  He would be my son’s great grandfather.  I told her that we had something of his.  She reiterated that she is seeing my son with his medal.  “I have his old coin collection,” I told her.  She said that him showing me that was just his way of saying that he is around us.

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When I returned home, I took a look at one of the coins.  It was inside a box that I hadn’t opened in years.  ON the box was what looked like a military medal, inside the box was on of his many coins he left to me when he passed.  I intended to ask Dan if he had one of them.  He has a tendency to take things in his room and I find them much later.  Before I could speak with him, I told my younger son, Austin the story.  He has mentioned many times that he does not believe in ghosts or the afterlife.  He was shocked and said, “I think she may have meant me.  I was just looking at those coins yesterday.”  Awesome!!!

The final thing we discussed of the paranormal realm was, if “Caitlin,” (that’s what we would have named my daughter,) has been around a lot when in my adult life, then who or what was behind the activity I’ve had in my life when my grandfather was alive and before I was ever pregnant.  I’ve had paranormal apparitions and electronic manipulations since I was 14.  She said that she could tell me, even before pulling the card that it was not a ghost.  It was my spirit guide.  After she pulled the card she said, “Yes, even the card shows a spirit guide.  It is not female or male.  It has been around much longer than 14.  That’s just when you started noticing it.  When you need a maternal type of nurturing, it gives female energy and when you need someone to stick up for you and be there to give you strength it is masculine.”  How fascinating.  All this time I thought the house I grew up in was haunted.  But at the same time I couldn’t quite explain why I had experiences in every home I have lived in since then.

As I mentioned, I have never felt threatened by any of the activity that has surrounded me all these years.  I do know that it is what has always held my interest in the paranormal.  I will continue learning more as I move on with my life, but I can say that, not only have I never felt alone when I physically am , I will gain strength in knowing I am protected by my guardian angel, watched over and loved by my grandfather, who I miss dearly and loved by and cheered up by my daughter who I will one day know in another life.

I am grateful for these blessings of knowledge.  I thank Edwin and Lillian, owners of the Haunted Victorian in Gardner and Spirit Sleepers Investigators for holding the psychic fair at the Mansion on the Blood Moon/Lunar Eclipse and I am grateful to Rev. Robyn Mortola for the amazing reading and the soothing energy she brought to it.  If you wish to contact her for a reading in Salem, MA, contact the Enchanted Shop at 978-745-2856 for an appointment.

If you would like to see the image of what I see as the ghost of a young woman in the mirror in a photo I took from my phone that nigh at the S.K. Pierce Haunted Victorian Mansion, click on this link to my previous blog: My Experiences – S. K. Pierce Haunted Victorian Mansion – Part 5.

I hope you will share and like this blog if you’ve enjoyed it.  There is so much more to come – all things paranormal.  Stay a while, browse through some of the articles here.  I’m sure you will be fascinated.

Missy Bell

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