New England Oddities

Old Burying Point

The last installment of Taphopiliacs Anonymous focused on Salem Center Burying Ground in Salem, New Hampshire, but this week we move our sights to a different Salem: Salem, Massachusetts.

Though the two cities are not all that far away, they are worlds apart. To readers here, Salem Massachusetts no doubt needs no introduction. The site of the infamous witch trials in the late 1600s has, since the 1970s, become something of an east-coast holy land for new-agers and kitchen witches, and a required destination for spiritual spectators and curiosity-seekers. Boasting rows of vendors and museums dedicated to the craft, witch decals on city vehicles, practitioners licensed by local government and even an official witch, Salem is a city like no other.

The Old Burying Point, located within an easy walk of many Salem attractions, is likewise a cemetery like no other.

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Madame Sherri’s Castle

Our unceasing quest for the paranormal recently took us to the small town of Chesterfield, New Hampshire. The site had once been the location of a luxurious home, built in 1931 by Madame Antoinette Sherri. After the construction was complete, droves of Sherri’s friends made their way from New York city to play at the Madame’s lavish, secluded home. Locals soon found themselves knee deep in New York city’s young and eccentric.

Rumors of revelry and intemperance within the walls of this magnificent home ensued for years – and still remain – but while these may be interesting for a tabloid publication, our focus was to investigate claims of paranormal activity.

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