Is Superman your Salem Witch Trials cousin? Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a descendant of a Salem Witch Trials victim!

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The Thing About Salem

Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack

24 episodes

4 days ago

The Thing About Salem is the definitive podcast for an in-depth, yet accessible, look at the most famous witch trials in American history. Welcome to the premiere podcast of the Salem Witch Trials, where witch trial experts Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack examine a different “thing” about the Salem Witch-Hunt each week. Every in-depth but approachable episode covers a topic, person, or place associated with the witch hunt of 1692-1693. Digestible 15-minute episodes make learning Salem Witch Trials history a snap.

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Is Superman your Salem Witch Trials cousin? Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a descendant of a Salem Witch Trials victim!

The Thing About Salem

16 minutes 49 seconds

3 months ago

Is Superman your Salem Witch Trials cousin? Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a descendant of a Salem Witch Trials victim!

Christopher Reeve proved that heroism isn’t about superpowers—it’s about perseverance. That’s the gift every Salem descendant carries, but you don’t have to share their bloodline to share their lesson. Salem teaches us about the price of silence, the power of standing up, the importance of questioning authority. Those aren’t genetic traits—they’re human ones.

Hosts Josh and Sarah explore their own ancestral connections to the trials and reveal how descendants of Salem's victims number in the millions today.

Towne Family Association

Towne Cousins Facebook Group

Listen to the Podcast Episode: Finding Your Salem Witch Trial Ancestors with David Allen Lambert

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

Massachusetts Court of Oyer and Terminer Documents, ⁠The Salem Witch Trials Collection, Peabody Essex Museum

Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt

The Thing About Salem Website

⁠The Thing About Salem YouTube

⁠The Thing About Salem Patreon

⁠The Thing About Witch Hunts YouTube⁠

⁠The Thing About Witch Hunts Website