Kids’ Fun Fest
Families visiting Salem during October can stop by Kids’ Fun Fest on Salem Common for kid-friendly activities and seasonal entertainment.
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Entertainment
Events for October 24, 2026
Haunted Happenings Marketplace at Derby Square
Shop small in the heart of downtown Salem at this free outdoor marketplace beside historic Old Town Hall. Meet independent makers, artists, designers, and creative small businesses offering original art, jewelry, apparel, accessories, home goods, seasonal décor, gifts, and more. The lineup changes throughout the season, so check the live calendar before visiting. Produced by Creative Collective.
Haunted Happenings Marketplace at Salem Common
Make Salem Common part of your Haunted Happenings day. This free outdoor marketplace brings together independent makers, artists, designers, and creative small businesses in one of Salem’s best-known gathering places. Browse original art, jewelry, apparel, accessories, home goods, seasonal décor, gifts, and more. The lineup changes throughout the season, so check the live calendar before visiting. Produced by Creative Collective.
Haunted Happenings Food Court at Old Town Hall
Step inside historic Old Town Hall for a free indoor food marketplace featuring a rotating mix of local and regional vendors. Find sweet and savory options, seasonal specialties, and Halloween treats throughout Haunted Happenings. Vendor lineups can change by date, so check the live calendar before visiting. Produced by Creative Collective.
90 Minute Witch Hat Design Session
Every witch has a hat. Yours may simply not have introduced itself yet. Witch hats are wonderfully dramatic objects, which is exactly why choosing one can get complicated. Brim width, crown height, color, tilt, trim, texture: suddenly a fun decision has developed several opinions of its own. Our consultation keeps the fun and removes the guesswork. You and the maker ...
Haunted Happenings Marketplace at Charlotte Forten Park
Find more Haunted Happenings fun at Charlotte Forten Park, one of five walkable marketplace locations in downtown Salem. Browse a rotating mix of independent makers, artists, designers, and creative small businesses offering original art, jewelry, apparel, accessories, seasonal goods, gifts, and more. Produced by Creative Collective. Hours subject to change.
The Salem Haunted Magic Show: HYSTERIA: Ghost Psychic!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show presents HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! Step into Salem’s strangest live entertainment experience, where magic, mind reading, psychic phenomena, and the unexplained collide. HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! is a darkly theatrical and highly interactive magic show where audience members become part of the mystery. Watch thoughts get revealed, predictions come true, impossible coincidences unfold, and ordinary ...
Eerie Stories: Haunting Legends of the North Shore
Listen to the shadowy history and folklore of Massachusetts’ North Shore! From buried treasure and ghostly ships to legendary pirates like Black Sam Bellamy and Captain Kidd, this program brings the haunting legends and maritime mysteries of Salem, Gloucester, Ipswich, and beyond to life. These stories are grounded in history, shaped by folklore, and told with all the drama of ...
The Salem Haunted Magic Show: HYSTERIA: Ghost Psychic!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show presents HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! Step into Salem’s strangest live entertainment experience, where magic, mind reading, psychic phenomena, and the unexplained collide. HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! is a darkly theatrical and highly interactive magic show where audience members become part of the mystery. Watch thoughts get revealed, predictions come true, impossible coincidences unfold, and ordinary ...
90 Minute Witch Hat Design Session
Every witch has a hat. Yours may simply not have introduced itself yet. Witch hats are wonderfully dramatic objects, which is exactly why choosing one can get complicated. Brim width, crown height, color, tilt, trim, texture: suddenly a fun decision has developed several opinions of its own. Our consultation keeps the fun and removes the guesswork. You and the maker ...
The Salem Haunted Magic Show: HYSTERIA: Ghost Psychic!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show presents HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! Step into Salem’s strangest live entertainment experience, where magic, mind reading, psychic phenomena, and the unexplained collide. HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! is a darkly theatrical and highly interactive magic show where audience members become part of the mystery. Watch thoughts get revealed, predictions come true, impossible coincidences unfold, and ordinary ...
Salem Night Faire
Presented by The Black Veil. Tread beyond the darkened pines of The Pioneer Village. Featuring art, clothing, jewelry and oddity vendors, performances, ghost stories, hot cider, food trucks, Biergarten & more.
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience An Evening of Spirits, Scandals & Accusations Step into Salem, 1692, where the drinks are flowing, the rumors are spreading, and everyone is beginning to look a little suspicious. Witches Amongst Us is an immersive, comical retelling of the Salem Witch Trials that puts you right in the middle of the hysteria. Through live ...
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience An Evening of Spirits, Scandal & Accusations Step into Salem, 1692, where the drinks are flowing, the rumors are spreading, and everyone is beginning to look a little suspicious. Witches Amongst Us is an immersive, comical retelling of the Salem Witch Trials that puts you right in the middle of the hysteria. Through live ...
Haunted Speakeasy
Spend an evening inside 221-year-old haunted Hamilton Hall at a decadent roaring 20s Jazz Age ball featuring live music by Tricky Niki & The Grave Diggers, burlesque, cocktails, dancing, and interactive ghostly encounters
The Salem Haunted Magic Show: HYSTERIA: Ghost Psychic!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show presents HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! Step into Salem’s strangest live entertainment experience, where magic, mind reading, psychic phenomena, and the unexplained collide. HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! is a darkly theatrical and highly interactive magic show where audience members become part of the mystery. Watch thoughts get revealed, predictions come true, impossible coincidences unfold, and ordinary ...
Sea Witch Ball Workshop
Join The Sea Wych Salem for a magical experience in Witch City as she presents the history & lore of the witch ball, & guides you as you create your own using ocean elements, herbs, salts, & more to welcome in joy, banish negativity, or simply for a pretty souvenir to display. Spend some time with us and bring home ...
Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s dark contemporary comedy follows Becky Nurse, a modern-day descendant of accused witch Rebecca Nurse in Salem. Becky’s been fired from her job at the local museum, troubled by her granddaughter’s boyfriend, is pining for a married man, and taking pain pills to cope after her daughter’s overdose. It seems hers is anything but a charmed life as Becky ...
Wicked Night on the Wharf: UNTAMED
This Halloween, unleash your wild side at Wicked Night on The Wharf: UNTAMED — Salem’s ultimate haunted jungle costume party for one wicked night of music, immersive entertainment, eerie creatures, and nonstop dancing. Dress to impress in your most outrageous, terrifying, creative, or untamed costume and prepare for a Halloween party experience unlike anything else on the North Shore.
2026 Salem Witch Trials
Based on the true story of a tarot-reading lesbian forced from her home by Christian neighbors likely in a cult, Gretchen Wylder’s darkly comedic one-woman show explores witches as healers, the patriarchal systems that burned them and the modern dangers of organized religion. Living a double life – reading tarot in Salem while residing in a creepy cottage town run ...
Salem’s Comedy Coven – Haunted Comedy Show
Salem’s Comedy Coven is back… but only for the Halloween season. Hidden inside The Lost Library’s Black Box Theater, this limited-run haunted comedy pop-up returns for just a few weeks each fall. Created in partnership with Witch City Comedy, the show brings together some of New England’s funniest comedians for an evening of wicked stand-up, eerie surprises, and laughs that ...
Blues on Tap – Live Music No cover
Blues On Tap brings their unique blend of blues & rock back to the Gulu Gulu Cafe & Bar! Check out their powerful lead vocals, driving guitar, drums that give the band a punch and bass with great bottom! All your favorite tunes sound even better with this crew. 8pm. NO COVER!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show: HYSTERIA: Ghost Psychic!
The Salem Haunted Magic Show presents HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! Step into Salem’s strangest live entertainment experience, where magic, mind reading, psychic phenomena, and the unexplained collide. HYSTERIA: The Ghost Psychic! is a darkly theatrical and highly interactive magic show where audience members become part of the mystery. Watch thoughts get revealed, predictions come true, impossible coincidences unfold, and ordinary ...
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience An Evening of Spirits, Scandals & Accusations Step into Salem, 1692, where the drinks are flowing, the rumors are spreading, and everyone is beginning to look a little suspicious. Witches Amongst Us is an immersive, comical retelling of the Salem Witch Trials that puts you right in the middle of the hysteria. Through live ...
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience
Witches Amongst Us: A 1692 Experience An Evening of Spirits, Scandal & Accusations Step into Salem, 1692, where the drinks are flowing, the rumors are spreading, and everyone is beginning to look a little suspicious. Witches Amongst Us is an immersive, comical retelling of the Salem Witch Trials that puts you right in the middle of the hysteria. Through live ...