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The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

The Salem Witch Trials - Afflicted & Accused

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8634 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Originally released for Patrons on Sep 26, 2024

In this episode, Hallie dives into the web of social factors that likely drove the Salem Witch trials. The bewitched girls, called the afflicted, were from one faction in town, while the accused were from another. Is this a coincidence? Probably not.

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This episode contains discussions of colonialism, torture, execution, physical abuse of children,

1:14.4

political abuse, and religious extremism and abuse.

1:18.1

If any of these topics is a trigger for you, this might be a good episode to skip.

1:27.0

Music Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.

1:41.3

Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid

1:46.1

curiosity, and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people.

1:53.3

My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.

2:23.0

Music podcast. This episode is a sort of prequel for the upcoming two-part episode on the Salem Witch Trials,

2:27.9

which occurred between February 1692 and May 1693.

2:30.9

The trials are only the tip of the iceberg.

2:36.8

The town of Salem was a powder keg, waiting for a spark. I wanted to give a little more context surrounding the trials, especially the social settings. The topic hits

2:42.4

differently when you know the gritty social details. I'd like to give some historical,

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