Salem was once the largest seaport on the East Coast. A history of trade and sailing vessels. It has many tunnels that still exist today. Many were associated with smuggling to avoid customs. The witch hysteria only lasted several years and a lot of it was a conspiracy to steal land. Salem has been riding the witch for about 30 years now. It brings in the tourists. Used to call Salem home.😃 nice job Adam
The "smuggler tunnels" stories have been debunked as was the book put out by Chris Duggin who started that whole idea of said tunnels. In fact the city put out a letter a few years back discrediting him and the book. There is a few utility tunnels that connect a building here or there but no massive network of tunnels.
I remember the witch museums in the 70s and 80s. Back then it was more historical, just like "House of the Seven Gables", and no one then would imagine, for example, a tribute statue of Samantha from "Bewitched"! Now it is used as a theme everywhere in Salem. I think the tourism promotion increased in the 90s, in part because other businesses were closing, and jobs leaving the area. Also, I don't think there are any tunnels. The sandy dirt near the coast couldn't support a tunnel for long. A hurricane, or just a strong storm, would collapse such a tunnel. Makes a good story, though.
That red box you thought was an electrical box was actually an old fireman’s call box. That is what people used for emergency before the 911 system was put into place
While you’re up here, check out Old Sturbridge Village! It’s a village created to replicate a new england town from the 1830s from actual homes and buildings that were donated and relocated to the area. This is 100% worth visiting!
Yeah, me too. I’m surprised you never heard that expression, Adam. In a film, if nothing else. I believe someone uses that word in the film Tombstone for Doc Holiday.
Salem’s vibe in the summer must be so different compared to fall/Halloween time. It must have been so much more peaceful in comparison. It’s on my bucket list to see Salem for myself one day
@@30seagullsinatrenchcoat11 Yeah I live in Boston and have lots of friends that live there, I'm there all the time in the summer, one of my favorite places in Massachusetts. Salem is one of a kind
Salem is such a fun place to hang out! One of our favorite places to visit. We usually stay at the Hawthorne Hotel and stayed in the as they say "the most haunted room" in the hotel. Their ghost tours are cool to go on as well (as long as you get a good guide lol). Lots of awesome stories. Gaol was apparently how they spelled jail. Lots of great memories going there! The House of Seven Gables is beautiful. Beautiful views❤️. The first time I went to the candy store there was a line out of the door and around the corner haha...it was crazy! Love that you're visiting. 😁
I have never been before, but I was going to plan a trip. Is everything walking distance from the hotels? And everything to do. Or do you have to drive place to place. My daughter wants to go for the hocus pocus tour
Nice shot of Salem Harbor. Salem Willows was a frequent place we went as kids. Rides, mini golf, boat tours, chop suey rolls, ice cream, games. Very cool on hot nights.
I'm sure that someone already has noted that gaol means jail. Also, "Bewitched" shot some episodes in Salem, and the surroundings. I think that's why the statue exists. Adam, you and Ben were excellent, tour guides. Salem at Halloween is amazing.👏👏🧙🧟♀️
Yes, Bewitched, was it the episode about the old bed warmer (which was really a warlock) that kept following her around in the museum 😆 I can't remember 🤔
@@joannesnider6580 a few decades ago, the museums and such were taken more seriously as history. It "evolved" into modern light entertainment, and many locals think the statue, among many newer tourist traps, is rather tacky.
Adam!! I am so excited you are in our great state of Massachusetts! Not sure what your plans are for the next few days, but come to my neighborhood in Concord to visit Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreaus’s cabin site, and the Orchard House where the Alcott family lived and where Louisa May wrote Little Women! The history in the house is amazing. There is also the Old North Bridge, the Colonial Inn, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with Author’s Ridge, and so many other amazing places to visit!
As a lifelong resident of Salem and a former tour guide of the House of Seven Gables, you have depicted a good example of tourists trying to decipher what's what. Passed on History has changed in the last 30 years it's amazing what people will believe;
In the neighboring town of Danvers, which was part of Salem Village during the witch trials, there is a memorial to the victims. Nice to see you in our neck of the woods, hope you're enjoying yourself! 👍👍
Laughed so hard little tears formed. So many funny moments, "You've never read a BOOK?" I think you and Bin are my new favorite team surpassing TT. I was married in Salem at the Grace Episcopal on Essex Street in the 80's by candlelight. Pretty cool. So glad you got to take a look around! xo
HEY ATW...THIS TOWN WAS ALMOST AS CREEPY AS PAWLEY'S ISLAND with that Haunted Trail you went down after the ice storm! At least the residents accept and even satirize the town's past. I could tell you were uneasy at some locations. Great vlog. The way you read historical markers is one of the reasons you are number one!
Double Arnold action in Salem 🤣 had a lot of fun wandering around here. That Count Orlok’s was pretty cool, wish they let us film inside. Maybe we’ll have to visit again closer to the Halloween season for more spooky goodness 🤔
I was waiting for you guys to put it together with the “rock” candy named Gibraltar named after the rock of Gibraltar. Lol. I loved this video. I went there with my family in the early ‘70’s when I was about 10 years old. There is a house near there made out of paper. Very cool house
I was thinking that it’s probably like peppermint bark, where you have to break it with a hammer to eat it. Also, molasses candy - kinda on the fence about that one…
This episode was a vocabulary lesson, LOL! Consumption was Tuberculosis, Razed means destroyed, or in this case, a building that was torn down, Gaol was the way Jail was spelled in the 1600/1700's.
I remember loving our family trip to Salem as a teenager, and (much, much later) I really liked the “Salem” TV series on WGN. Yep, I remember seeing the House of the Seven Gables, the Courthouse, and that Alexander Graham Bell house, too. Thanks for a great video that brought back so many dang good memories! 🧙🏼♀️🪦🏠☎️
I have throughly enjoyed this road trip! Salem is on my bucket list! Drove through once but was unable to stop and explore. As always, thanks for sharing 💕
This was terrific!!! Thank you! I would highly recommend a trip to Mystic, CT before you depart New England. So many things to film and show from that area!!!
Epic adventures continue with Adam! This was another location we crossed off our "must see" list about a year and a half ago. Salem was an awesome adventure on our road trips! The history, the buildings, and so much more to see. We even got to be there around Halloween, which made it even better! There is no better place to get your spooky vibes on than Salem. The Witch House is definately a must-see while in town, and you need to get your tickets/reservations well in advance because it is quite popular.
I was laughing at all the words you were running across that you weren't familiar with. The Gilbraltar candy.. My husband said it might very well a reference to the Rock of Gibraltar. That would make sense that it was hard as a rock. "Razed" .. which seems really weird to me that it means torn down or demolished. I guess that's why it didn't say "raised". "Consumption" was the word they used for tuberculosis. You hear it in period piece movies a lot. I was surprised when you weren't sure what meant considering all the movies you've seen. Once again another weird word though. Salem is definitely an interesting place. Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it. 🥰
Gaol was the old way of spelling jail. The whole spirit of the town of Salem. "Let's take a horrific time of our history full of religious hysteria and prosecution and make a tourist trap out of it!"
Yeah that's just good old capitalism. Why not make a buck from it. Bare minimum, its very educational and should be a stark reminder of our not so good history..despite the United States of America not being a thing until the 18th century.
Thank you, Adam, for this awesome video!!!!!!! I was born and raised in Salem, Mass. The correct pronouncement for Roger Conant's last name is o as in "O" God. " I miss my hometown living in California. Still have family there. I know where every building in this video is located and have been to all of them. A lot of these old buildings have inscriptions in the concrete /stone masonry where the letter V was used as a substitute for the letter U. I guess they did not have the technology to carve the U into these old buildings. Salem Witch Museum used to be a Catholic church. The building that is now Turners Seafood restaurant used be a restaurant there named the Lyceum. The house that has the crow's nest that was in Hocus Pocus is owned by the parents of a classmate of mine from Saltonstall School. Salem was also the original home of Parker Games. They tore the old factory down in the early 90's after Hasbro bought out Parker Brothers. Most of Salem burned to the ground in the Great Salem Fire of 1914. But these old buildings that are in this video are original that were saved from burning. Great place to visit especially on Halloween. Everyone dresses up in costume and it's a big party!!!!!!
Loved this vlog! I was so surprised to hear you have never seen Hocus Pocus! Years ago, my son visited Salem and I recall he went whale watching. I hope you’re doing some fun stuff when you’re not filming. You’re Arnold interpretation just kills me! 😆 Thanks Adam.
The old English of the 16th and 17th centuries is almost incomprehensible to our ears today. The syntax and patterns are so different. Best old time name I ever saw was Doctor Payne.....
Adam consumption is another word for tuberculosis, that’s the term they used back then, and welcome to Massachusetts I am originally from there but live in North Carolina
Back in the 90's it was a very cool town to visit. It has since become too touristy. Great history. One of my ancestors was tried for witchcraft, but not executed. Great video. Thank you.
Im from Mass and can trace my ancestors back to the Mass Bay Colony in the late 1640's. They are "littered" all over the cemeteries in the area. I love Salem and Mass history in general!
Outside of Witch City, Salem is home to a ton of interesting “first of”. Very historic town. Washington stayed on the 2nd story, most right window room of The Merchant. I just checked out after staying in the room!
@@TheDailyWoo this gave me vibes of some old neighborhoods near me in Philly. You should make a stop and do a video here. Keep up the road trip. Very interesting.
Hi Adam, Don't know if your schedule permits but a cool place in Massachusetts is the City of New Bedford. It was the number one whaling port during the 1800s. Have a really extensive whaling museum and the downtown is a national historic district. Also the number one fishing port in the country. People there are really friendly. Alot to film. Shall you?
Welcome to New England, hope the weather was nice. Gaol means jail and Consumption also known as tuberculosis. We've been to Salem a few times, great at Halloween. Hocus Pocus 2 filmed some scenes in RI :) we're a small but pretty state.
GREAT 👍 Video Adam. I enjoyed this one very much. Very interesting. (Filming you both under the 🌳 tree, the lighting was lovely. Do more!) Also enjoyed your co-host, he was quite good! Thank You!
The Gibraltar candy is rock candy.... you break it up and then savor it like hard candy. I would love it, rock candy and other hard candy is my favorite. The Black Jacks looked so good!!!!
So jealous right now. Have always wanted to visit Salem. I am wanting to visit during the Halloween season though. I think it would be extra fun then.~~Consumption is another word for the disease of Tuberculosis.
Haven’t been to Massachusetts in about 15 years. There’s a ferry that you can take from Boston to Provincetown. Which is a town on the tip of Cape Cod. There’s also Plymouth. Where you can see Plymouth Rock and a Mayflower replica. I wanted to explore Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket but didn’t have the time on my visit.
Awesome seeing you checking out Salem. The Samantha Bewitched state was recently vandalized with red paint. Glad they got it all cleaned up nice. And The Witch House is the last remaining standing house that has direct ties to the witch trials.
Next time you gotta visit Proctor's Ledge! Historians confirmed the exact site of the SWT hangings just a few years back and they now have a memorial there.
Cracked me up when you said the person who died of consumption did he eat too much? 🤣 It was tuberculosis I believe. I was there in Salem in the early 1980s. What a trip. Thanks for the video! Oh the house of the seven gables was important as one of the early American novels. Thanks for showing it too.
Hi Adam. Love Salem. Gail was the word for jail back then. In a Bewitched episode, Samantha went to Salem and there was a statue of her in episode. You have to see Hocus Pocus! 🎃
Debbie F..yes I remember Endora frowning at the ugly witch statue while in the car with Samantha & Darrin then she zapped the statue so it would look like Samantha.
My youngest son and I took a very long road trip from Oklahoma to Salem and other places for my birthday week. Salem jail was the location where my many times great grandmother Ann A. Foster died accused of being a witch.
These people that persecuted witches weren’t too bright! If you were a witch you could use your magic to snap yourself out of jail! It reminds me of that episode on bewitched!
You can see the skull and crossbones on all the historic tombstones in Boston. It is a symbol for memento mori and was common in Europe. What you don't see are crosses, but memento mori is a Christian motif. Giles Corey refused to plead guilty or not guilty so he was tortured to death. He is the only known American to have died from pressing (crushing the body with heavy stones).
Hey Woo. Great video. Salem is certainly on my bucket list. In the old days consumption was basically another term for Tuberculosis, which was very common in 17th century America..
I think it's interesting how a place embraced the unjust killing of innocent people and used it to draw tourists instead of trying to hide it, cover it up, and move on. lol I've always wanted to go there.
I just find it ... strange that Salem makes so much money off it's history.....a history blood soaked with innocent lives...some of them quite young. It just kind of bothers me that they make it "cutesy" and not the horror for women that is was. I dunno, maybe I am just being...a cranky old dragon.
My g g g Grandfather was Dr Toothaker and the other Dr in town said his wife was a witch and 🔥 and his daughter’s were stolen and killed by native Americans and they burnt his house down. So I agree with you
@@keithhavens6566 I also find it incredibly ironic, that they have a statue of "Samantha" They would have hung her, if she'd ever been in Salem. I LOVE the history.... I just hate the way they chose to profit off it.
@@keithhavens6566 Yes. It is fine to have the museums and such, and of course, charge a fee for entry to help maintain it. I mean all the shops and "tourist traps" selling cute witch shirts and other things....that is where it is WRONG.
@@LadyDragonsblood I really wish that they were witches and they would have just decimated everyone that condemned them. It always reminds me of the Monty python movie- on how they determined who was a witch… Apparently in my family’s case it was jealousy and greed
Very, very enjoyable and entertaining from start to finish. Loved it. A few years back we went to Gloucester and meant to visit Salem but never did. Now I know a little more of what we missed. Fantastic video. See ya tomorrow, but where? Take care.
Both candies were made to be broken then eaten. There's a whole lot more history including proctor's ledge where those accused of witchcraft were hanged still exists with a monument. The Peabody Essex museum is an awesome museum. Some of the restaurants are even better in salem when compared to Boston. A quick trip to Boston by ferry is a lot of fun too. Boston has a lot of history and great food especially the seafood,Italian and sweets. Plus you can't forget fenway Park or China Town. Some things people don't know is Boston has a whale watch boat ride,a recreated mayflower, Boston teaparty reenactment you can take part in and a great aquarium. I suggest you take more time if you get the time and explore them both. Plus coffee houses and pubs in both Boston and Salem are some of the best I've been to in my travels.
Salem is an awesome place to visit I live in western Mass and went a couple summers ago and I'm dying to go back again and explore more glad ya have fun visiting
