Haunted Happenings

Salem is known for its holiday festivities, but this year, costumes may need to include a negative COVID test to go with the mask.

Health officials in Salem will decide Friday whether to require negative COVID tests before Halloween revelers attend large, ticketed, indoor events this season.

People going to large indoor Halloween events in Salem, Massachusetts, will have to test negative for COVID-19. The Board of Health voted Friday to require anyone attending indoor festivities where there are more than 100 people, regardless of vaccine status, to provide a negative test. The policy will be in effect from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1. The huge crowds…

Halloween revelers would need to test negative for COVID before attending large, ticketed, indoor events in Salem, Massachusetts, this October under a proposal being considered on Friday. The Witch City’s board of health will hold a special meeting on the subject, Mayor Kim Driscoll said in a Facebook post Thursday. “Given what we have seen with the Delta variant...

Haunted Happenings, Salem, Massachusetts’ annual celebration of all things Halloween, is scheduled to return in October 2021 after being largely scaled back last year due to the pandemic. “We are excited to welcome the return of special events and programs to Salem’s calendar of events this October,” announced Kate Fox, executive director of Destination Salem, “Salem Haunted Happenings generates approximately…

While sizable crowds came out celebrate Halloween in Witch City, restrictions and cold weather kept crowds smaller than normal.

Despite the pandemic, people are still turning out to spooky Salem to celebrate Halloween night.

From psycho clowns to friendly bears, alien abductions to pint-size DJ’s, Halloween revelers were dressed to kill in Salem, Massachusetts — even on a night when they were asked to stay away. Known for drawing enormous crowds on Halloween, Salem discouraged visitors from bringing their celebrations to the city this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, but that didn’t stop...

City officials are implementing new measures in hopes of deterring crowds from visiting the Halloween capital.

The last two weekends of October in Salem typically draw widespread attention for its Halloween spirit, with tourists traveling hours to see the haunted happenings. But this year, officials have implemented new measures to hopefully reduce crowds in lieu of the coronavirus pandemic. The new measures aimed at scaring away visitors include fewer commuter rail trains stopping in Salem and…

The last two weekends of October in Salem draw widespread attention for the Halloween spirit, but this year, officials are implementing measures to reduce crowds in lieu of COVID-19.

You can’t come to Salem without talking about Halloween, but as Massachusetts’ governor asked people to celebrate it responsibly this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the city went further. What is arguably the Halloween capital of the world, which is swarmed by throngs of people every October, told potential visitors Tuesday that, if they don’t have already have reservations,...

As Gov. Charlie Baker asked Massachusetts residents to avoid celebrating Halloween indoors, the city of Salem is putting new guidelines into place to ensure people celebrate safely.