Is Superman your Salem Witch Trials cousin? Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a descendant of a Salem Witch Trials victim.

Christopher Reeve proved that heroism isn’t about superpowers—it’s about perseverance. That’s the gift every Salem descendant carries, but you don’t have to share their bloodline to share their lesson. Salem teaches us about the price of silence, the power of standing up, the importance of questioning authority. Those aren’t genetic traits—they’re human ones.

Hosts Josh and Sarah explore their own ancestral connections to the trials and reveal how descendants of Salem’s victims number in the millions today.

Links

Towne Family Association⁠

⁠Towne Cousins Facebook Group⁠

⁠Listen to the Podcast Episode: Finding Your Salem Witch Trial Ancestors with David Allen Lambert⁠

⁠Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project⁠

⁠Massachusetts Court of Oyer and Terminer Documents, ⁠The Salem Witch Trials Collection, Peabody Essex Museum⁠

⁠Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt⁠

⁠The Thing About Salem Website⁠

⁠⁠The Thing About Salem YouTube⁠

⁠⁠The Thing About Salem Patreon⁠

⁠⁠The Thing About Witch Hunts YouTube⁠⁠

⁠⁠The Thing About Witch Hunts Website

Transcript

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