Read on to get a detailed look into the history of this haunted ledge and what makes this slab of stone so sacred. Book your tour with Salem Ghosts to see this legendary site for yourself! This ledge also served as a dumping grounds for their bodies. The exact location of these executions was largely contested over the years, as many believed that those 19 innocent people were executed at the summit of Gallows Hill , which is located at the western edge of Salem.
This debate began in , when local historians Sidney Perley claimed to have discovered the proper site of the executions. The debate still raged on, namely due to poor record-keeping.
What records were available were deemed too difficult to properly interpret. Finally, in , there was a breakthrough. Over the next six years, they collected all of the evidence that they could find on the proper execution site, eventually concluding that Sidney Perley had been right all along.
Interestingly, part of the evidence that helped these historians reach their ultimate conclusion included eyewitness accounts dating back to when the executions actually occurred. Being the execution site and dumping grounds from the infamous Salem Witch Trials, it is no surprise that paranormal encounters are abound at this location. This forced many of the family members to sneak out in the middle of the night to collect their fallen kin to bury them elsewhere.
This was a dangerous task indeed, for if they had been caught, they too may have faced execution. Numerous reports state that a dark energy can be felt in and around the area.
