The Site finally has a memorial
Eight years ago, when they bought their house overlooking a wooded ledge in Salem, Massachusetts, Erin O’Connor and her husband, Darren Benedict, had no idea why that parcel stood empty. The scrubby lot lay tucked between houses on Pope Street, within sight of a large Walgreen’s—nothing much to look at. So when people began to stop by and take pictures of the empty site last winter, they wondered why.
If they’d been there in 1692, they would have known.
That’s when the rocky ledge on the parcel next door turned into a site of mass
execution—and when the bodies of people hanged as witches were dumped into a
low spot beneath the ledge known as “the crevice.” In the night, when the
hangings were over, locals heard the sounds of grieving families who snuck over
to gather up their dead and secretly bury them elsewhere…….
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