Salem trip

**harrison36** · 09-22-2008,01:23 PM

on my way to gloucester, mass. we stopped in Salem, famous for its witches i had to. we did pretty much every witch museum and dungeon they had, all were pretty cool as far as information and production. the frankestein's lab haunted house dissapointed me, a bunch of kids dressed in black jumping out behind curtains with little props to remind you you are in a lab. the best part IMO is the Nightmare Gallery, an unreal "museum" filled with life sized top notch props from your favorite classic horror movies. . the Count Orlok, proprietor, has been collecting these props since he was 13 years old and has done a classy job at showing them to the public. check out their page Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery, the myspace page has pics.

heres some graveyard pics, someone lives in that house.

**scraggles** · 09-22-2008,01:42 PM

I went there a few years ago with a basic costume on and I had a great time. This year, the girlfriend and I are going all out with prosthetics and we can't wait.

In my area halloween is just another day. Salem keeps the holiday fun thriving.

**Frankie's Girl** · 09-22-2008,01:43 PM

oh, I'm so jealous! I LOVE Salem! It is so beautiful and has such amazing history!

When we went, most of the tours were closed for the season (December) so we only saw a few of the tours.

I'll have to go when most of them are open, and definitely want to see the Nightmare Gallery.

**hurricanegame** · 09-22-2008,03:03 PM

It looks amazing..

**slaz** · 09-22-2008,03:47 PM

I went there 2 Halloweens ago. I had sooooo much fun. I loved the cemetery too, I think I took a picture of every stone. hehehehe.

**Effie** · 09-22-2008,04:19 PM

I don't live far from Salem, but I never realized you could go there for Halloween until the salesclerk at BIG LOTS told me about it -- she said it's great and her family goes there every year! I'd definitely like to go this year!

**harrison36** · 09-22-2008,06:10 PM

yeah, most of the halloween festivities seem to start oct 1 and on. they even have a retro zombie party type of thing with 60', 70' and 80's music. pretty crazy place. Count Orlok also said he plans on expanding to 5 more features i believe before october. place is awesome, plain and simple.

**Madame Leota** · 09-22-2008,07:14 PM

I've always wanted to go to Salem but really the whole witch trial aspect is very sad to me. Those innocent people were tortured and murdered at the hands of a bunch of paranoid, pious idiots. Now if they had been real witches like the ones in Hocus Pocus, that would be totally cool!

I love the house! I would so love to live in a house with its own cemetery!