The Grim's Guide to Salem | 8 Haunted Cemeteries in Salem MA

Join host Kristin as The Grim opens the gate on a guided walk through Salem's most historic and haunted graveyards — eight burial grounds, each carrying its own dark legacy from the witch trials to the present day.

Charter Street Cemetery, also known as the Old Burying Point, is Salem's must-see — one of the most haunted burial grounds in America, where judges Bartholomew Gedney and John Hathorne, who condemned the accused in 1692, rest just steps from the Witch Trials Memorial dedicated to their victims. The memorial, dedicated by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in 1992, bears the names of twenty souls executed for witchcraft, their true graves still unknown — denied consecrated ground in life, lost to history in death. Visitors report shadow figures, ghost lights near Puritan-era stones, whispers rising from the earth, and the constant, unshakeable sensation of being watched.

A short walk away, Howard Street Cemetery carries the weight of Giles Corey — the only man pressed to death during the witch trials — who now rests in an unmarked grave on grounds established nearly a century after his execution. Visitors report sudden chills, faint whispers, and the unsettling feeling of an unseen presence walking beside them. Broad Street Cemetery, Salem's second oldest, holds the Corwin family plot — Judge Jonathan Corwin and Sheriff George Corwin, the same family behind the Witch House that still stands today — where shadows shift between leaning stones and figures vanish at the edge of sight.

Beyond Salem's center, Greenlawn Cemetery offers rolling autumn grounds and family mausoleums, while Harmony Grove invites quiet reflection through its garden cemetery design. The Friends Burying Ground, Salem's third oldest and smallest, holds the Quaker community's quiet legacy — a painful irony in a town founded by those fleeing religious persecution. And just outside Salem in Marblehead, Old Burial Hill — one of New England's oldest cemeteries, established in 1638 and famously seen in Hocus Pocus — holds a memorial for Wilmot Redd, executed for witchcraft in 1692, alongside reports of disembodied voices, shadowy apparitions, and the restless spirits of the Pierce family tomb.

Throughout Salem's graveyards, the stones themselves tell a story — winged skulls, cherubs, urns, and weeping willows carved by hands long gone, each symbol a quiet dialogue between the living and the dead that has endured for centuries.

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