Turner's Seafood at Lyceum Hall
The brick hall at 43 Church Street rose in 1831 when the Salem Lyceum Society built its lecture stage atop ground that period records describe as the former apple orchard of Bridget Bishop, the first person hanged in the 1692 witch trials. For decades the hall hosted Emerson, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and the 1877 telephone demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell, before becoming a restaurant in 1989. It was only after that conversion that staff began reporting glassware shattering on its own, objects sliding along the bar, and a woman in a long white gown drifting above the main staircase, a figure locals call the Lady in White and tie to Bishop herself. Strangest of all is the sweet phantom scent of apples that is said to drift through the dining rooms and out into the surrounding alleys, where the doomed woman's trees once grew.
📍 43 Church Street, Salem, MA 01970, Salem, MA · Get directions