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A crowded historic New England street at dusk in October with costumed visitors in witch hats and jack-o'-lanterns glowing on the porches of old houses

Salem vs Sleepy Hollow for Halloween: Crowds, Costs & Which Trip Fits You

Salem vs Sleepy Hollow for Halloween: Crowds, Costs & Which Trip Fits You Two American towns own Halloween by birthright. Salem, Massachusetts, is where the 1692 witch trials happened, and every October it runs Haunted Happenings, a month-long citywide festival that draws more than a million visitors to a city of well under 50,000 people. […]

Salem street at dusk with witch-hat crowds and jack-o'-lanterns

Salem Halloween 2026: Haunted Happenings Guide

Salem’s Haunted Happenings runs for the whole of October — Thursday, October 1 to Saturday, October 31, 2026 — turning the Witch City into a month-long Halloween festival of ghost tours, haunted houses, psychic fairs, costume balls, and witch-history sites. Halloween night itself, Saturday, October 31, is the single busiest day of the year in […]