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Why does the caption call the house the "Roger Williams house" when it was Jonathan Corwin who lived there? Ljosa 12:12, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
It's because it's the wrong house!! Roger Williams was a resident in Salem at one time; evidently his house was also later called "The Witch House". But this entry is for the Jonathan Corwin House, so I removed the Williams House link. MacPhilbin 12:31, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
I removed some material that seemed to be biased: "Tours are available during the season and especially during the month of Haloween. If you are out of town, all you need to know is that this is the only house that one should visit. This is the only house with the direct link to the Horrible Witch Trials of 1692.
The Witch House is owned and operated by the City of Salem." Koifishkid ( talk) 22:59, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
It should be prominent in the article that locals and tourists alike routinely refer to the nearby "Witch Museum" as the "Witch House", although it is actually an old church with no connection to the events of the time (and not even a museum, really). Many of us call the real one the "Corwin House" as a result.
I'd even add a link for the Museum's wiki, despite how tacky/inauthentic the place is. Or perhaps a disambiguation page a la "Witch House - (2) a colloquial name for the Salem Witch Museum". The two are inextricably linked in local speech. 66.105.218.38 ( talk) 07:51, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
I'm a local and have never heard the Witch Museum referred to as the Witch House. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmithCorona ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
What about the Rebecca Nurse Homestead which also obviously has links to the trials since she was hung as a witch? Or what about the John Proctor House? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.179.164.72 ( talk) 19:00, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
I was just at the House today and took many photos and videos. Once I got home I uploaded them to my computer and started to examine the photos and videos. After many views I have documented 1 bright ORB in many of the videos! It is Bright, bouncing, and has a tail when it moves! I also noticed temp changes from room to room. You must check this house out! def. worth the 8 bucks!!!!!
According to all the claims, Roger Williams first owned the house. Then it was bought by Corwin and became the Witch House. The engraving dates to that period. Then the area in which the house stood (Essex Street) was urbanized. The house must have been remodelled several times. The gable was abbreviated, sections were cut away. So it appears in the 1910 postcard. At last they finished modernizing, moved the house and ancientized. They say, it looks like it did originally, but that does not really look like the engraving. This topic obviously needs more research. Is that really the same house? I will report back.Branigan 03:47, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I could put a number of tags on this but people don't seem to like the tags. I guess they have been used as a weapon of revenge too often. Right away I noticed the extensive plagiarism, but I am not sure who is plagiarizing whom. The article quotes large chunks of the web site without attribution. That site is given as a reference but the reference section is improperly formatted. Regardless of who copied whom, the web site is not an encyclopedic reference. There are no encyclopedic references. One of those refs sells the Witch House without giving us any info. I promised to look into the houses but I am not going to undertake the rest of it, at least not in the near future. This paper gets an F. Would you like to do it again?Branigan 03:47, 20 October 2012 (UTC)