Old Burying Point (Charter Street Cemetery)

Massachusetts · USA · Cemetery

Salem's oldest burying ground — where Judge John Hathorne is said to walk, and a woman in white vanishes the moment anyone raises a camera.

Old Burying Point on Charter Street was set aside in 1637 and is one of the oldest burial grounds in North America. John Hathorne lies here, the magistrate who examined the accused in 1692 and never retracted a word, and it is his figure that visitors say they see moving between the leaning slate stones at dusk. The second recurring figure is a woman in white: she is described standing still by the wall, but gone the instant someone raises a camera, as though she refused to be photographed. Beside the cemetery lies the memorial to the nineteen people executed in 1692, its stone benches carved with their names. This is a place to walk quietly.

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