The Most Haunted Places In Salem, Massachusetts

After the trials were over and it sort of sank in just how awful the whole incident had been, Salem strayed from its Puritan roots, in a big way. Brothels started to pop up around town, and before you know it Salem was famous not for its devout residents but for its depravity. As a seaside town, Salem was frequented by sailors, and we all know what sailors get up to after all those weeks at sea.

Anyway, one of the most notorious brothels in Salem was a place now known as Mercy Tavern. It wasn't just a house of prostitution, it was also where a lot of, um, "recruiters" would go when ships' captains needed sailors, but no one was volunteering. Young men would often vanish from Mercy Tavern, and many of them would die on board whatever ship they'd been forced to serve on. Unsurprisingly, a lot of them returned to Mercy Tavern after their deaths. You know, just to make themselves into problems for the proprietors.

Mercy Tavern is now an above-board restaurant, but the dead sailors don't know that. According to Ghost City Tours, guests sometimes report seeing their ghostly apparitions hanging around near the bar, and staff say that when the place is empty they'll sometimes hear disembodied voices.

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