Lyceum Hall (Turner's Seafood)

Massachusetts · United States · Restaurant

The building stands on Bridget Bishop's old apple lot — guests watch a woman in white glide up the stairs, and the scent of apple blossom drifts through.

Lyceum Hall on Church Street sits on ground that was once Bridget Bishop's apple orchard. She was the first person executed in the trials of 1692 — wrongly condemned, as all nineteen were — and Salem has never quite let her go. Since the late 1980s the same sighting has recurred inside: a woman in a long white dress gliding up one of the staircases toward the loft, gone by the time anyone follows. Employees also describe doors opening and closing by themselves, lights flickering, boxes thrown down the stairs — and a sudden smell of apple blossom in the middle of the restaurant kitchen. Many in town prefer to read it as her keeping watch over her own land.

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Lyceum Hall (Turner's Seafood) is in Massachusetts, United States.

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