{"id":87834,"date":"2026-10-26T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87834"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:43:39","slug":"nearly-3000-witches-gather-in-salem-to-break-macabre-world-record-in-spooky-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/nearly-3000-witches-gather-in-salem-to-break-macabre-world-record-in-spooky-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3,000 \u2018Witches\u2019 Gather In Salem To Break Macabre World Record In Spooky Stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/2026-parade-part-salems-400-146327890.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Revelers wear witch costumes and march in the Salem Haunted Happenings Grand Parade.\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, more than 2,700 \u201cwitches\u201d gathered in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/06\/real-estate\/historic-salem-home-next-to-infamous-witch-house-listed-for-1-9m\/\">Salem, MA i<\/a>n a world record attempt for the most witch hats worn at once.<\/p>\n<p>While the official jury is still out from the Guinness Book of World Records, there was no doubt that throngs of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/01\/13\/site-of-infamous-mass-execution-is-now-a-walgreens\/\">witches showed up <\/a>for the charity event commemorating the area\u2019s 400th anniversary. Massive crowds in spooky attire are nothing new for Salem\u2019s residents. In fact, if history repeats, this October there will be around a million more Halloween fun-hunters descending upon \u201cWitch City\u201d (Salem\u2019s nicknamed nod to the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/30\/salem-aims-to-exorcise-legacy-of-elizabeth-johnson-jr-last-guilty-1692-witch\/\"> infamous witch trials<\/a> of 1692).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): Last weekend, more than 2,700 \u201cwitches\u201d gathered in Salem, MA in a world record attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87835,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87834\/revisions\/87835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}