The Witch House (Jonathan Corwin House)
Built around 1675, this dark-gabled house on Essex Street was the home of Jonathan Corwin, a local magistrate who sat on the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the 1692 witch trials and helped send nineteen people to the gallows. Accused townsfolk were brought here for pretrial examinations, and it remains the only structure still standing in Salem with direct ties to those trials. Visitors and ghost-hunters have long reported the place to be restless: disembodied voices drifting through the low-ceilinged rooms, sudden chills and the sense of an unseen presence brushing past, and strange figures surfacing in photographs taken inside. Some accounts tie the unease to the victims Corwin judged, others to the so-called Corwin Curse that claimed several family members to early deaths. The house was investigated on Ghost Adventures and is widely catalogued among Salem's haunted sites.
📍 310 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970, Salem, MA · Get directions