Gather all your favorite witches for a TOTALLY private walking tour around Witch City! Choose from two unique experiences: Witches are the Future or Wonders of Spiritualism!  2.5 hours/ Starting at $325 per group. Fill out the private party request form to get started.

Witches are the Future

“Witches are the Future” has become a popular slogan, rallying cry, and hopeful collective vision for those practicing witchcraft today. But as we look to the future we must also look to our past and Salem, Massachusetts, through the twists and turns of history both tragic and transformative, has stood alone as the holder of The Witch. This 2-mile walking tour is for the deeply curious at heart and seekers looking to go beyond mainstream narratives around magic and witchcraft.  Together, we'll explore the power of The Witch - past, present, and future - using the streets of historic Downtown Salem as our classroom. 

Includes:

  • Your own local guide, Melissa Nierman, with years of experience sharing tours as a DIY scholar of occult history, queer witch, and professional clairvoyant/ Tarot practitioner

  • An intimate small group setting with space for questions and exploration

  • Visits to popular downtown Salem sites through a unique lens -  like the iconic Witch House, a recreated 1600s dungeon, the first witch store, and a Hocus Pocus exterior

  • Lesser-known sites like a 300 year-old churchyard tree, a reconstructed Quaker Meeting House, and a Lyceum Hall where Spiritualist mediums gave political lectures in trance

  • Discussion of protective folk traditions like Counter Magic and what we label as “magic” 

  • The Salem Witch Trials explored through an intersectional lens -  both past and present 

  • Modern-day witch history - from neopaganism to the feminist witches of today

2.5 hours/ Starting at $325 per group

Location: Tours meet and end at the HausWitch store (144 Washington Street in the heart of downtown Salem). Fill out the private party request form to get started.

Testimonials:

“It was so lovely to connect with a Salem local who has such a passion for the hidden parts of history! Melissa is so knowledgeable and her perspective is so insightful and inspiring. This tour was our favorite part of our whole trip to Salem <3”

“Amazing! Just what I was looking for -  it was like getting a "behind the scenes" tour of Salem. Down to earth, thoughtful, and progressive. I've already recommended to my friends.”

“This was an incredible experience. I was struck by Melissa's degree of thoughtfulness and the skill with which she delivered this meaningful yet fun tour. This is such a breath of fresh air in a sea of witch-related tours and other offerings that make witchcraft a spectacle in Salem without pausing to interrogate how any of this came to be, its oppressive dimensions, and the ways in which people have derived genuine power from occult practices. I look forward to taking another tour soon!”

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Wonders of Spiritualism!

Can the living talk to the dead and who, if anyone, gets to be the intermediary? Together, we'll journey deep into Salem’s idyllic McIntire District on a 2-mile walking tour exploring our complicated societal relationship with mediumship, ghosts, and all that we’re taught to fear using the lens of the much-erased Spiritualist Movement of the Victorian Era (mid-1800s) through today. This walking tour is for those looking to understand beyond the usual storylines told about Witch City, as we uncover truths about our collective history with the “occult,” as well as our own personal connection to the Spirit realm.

Includes:

  • Your own local guide, Melissa Nierman, with years of experience sharing tours as a DIY scholar of occult history, queer witch, and professional clairvoyant/ Tarot practitioner

  • An intimate small group with the space for questions and exploration

  • A chance to journey deep into the beautiful and less-visited historic McIntire District with its 1800s mansions, secret gardens, and Salem’s second oldest burying ground 

  • Popular sites with a unique lens, including a Lyceum Hall where Spiritualist mediums gave political lectures in trance, the former theater where Houdini performed, and the home where Alexander Graham Bell dreamed while inventing the magical telephone

  • Lesser-known sites, like a former a former Swedenborgian Church, Salem’s First Spiritualist Church, a Quaker cemetery, and a pair of 400 year old soaring twin trees 

  • Spiritualism’s connection to the Women’s Rights and Abolitionist Movement

  • Exploration of different types of spirit communication, including trance mediumship

2.5 hours/ Starting at $325 per group

Location: Tours meet and end at the HausWitch store (144 Washington Street in the heart of downtown Salem). Fill out the private party request form to get started.

Testimonials:

“We took the Spiritualism walking tour with Melissa and absolutely loved it! Melissa was knowledgeable, passionate and very personable. I would recommend this tour to anyone looking for a new and wonderful way to see parts of Salem you wouldn't on any other tour.”

“Cannot recommend enough! Really loved my first tour - an alternative history of the occult. It was interesting, funny, feminist - and exactly what I was hoping for but didn't know I needed!”

“I did the tour on the history of Spiritualism. It was a wonderful experience well worth the $ and the trip. Melissa, the tour guide, is really knowledgeable and passionate, and took great care of us. She was really open to questions too. I can't wait to go on all of the NowAge Tours.”