Salem Festival of the Dead -October 1-31, 2025

📅 Dates: Daily, October 1-31, 2025
🕙 Times: Events Vary
📍 Location: Essex Street, Salem, MA
🎟️ Admission: Free to enter Witches Market & Psychic Fair, check website for entry to other events

🔮✨ The Festival of the Dead returns to Salem with its iconic Psychic Fair and Witches’ Market. Hosted by Christian Day, Brian Cain, and the Witches of Salem, this event features Salem’s most gifted psychics—officially licensed by the city. Guests can explore Tarot, clairvoyance, spirit mediumship, palmistry, crystal ball scrying, past-life readings, and discover their spirit guides. The Witches’ Market features a vibrant bazaar of magical goods including crystals, handmade jewelry, candles, spell kits, herbs, incense, and unique occult tools.

🌙👻 October Séances at Omen – Nightly Throughout October 👻🌙

📍 Location: Omen, 184 Essex Street, Salem, MA
🕯 Experience a traditional Salem séance inside the Spirit Parlor at Omen. Led by experienced spirit mediums, each evening offers guided meditations and mediumship to connect participants with the departed.

🌑⚰️ Graveyard Magic with Witchdoctor Utu – Thursday, October 30, 2025 ⚰️🌑

🕘 Time: 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Omen, 184 Essex Street, Salem, MA
🎟️ Tickets Required
🔮 This respected workshop explores graveyard magic traditions, rituals, and respectful spirit work. The evening concludes with a visit to one of Salem’s oldest burial grounds to honor ancestral spirits.

🎃🔥 Official Salem Witches’ Halloween Ball – Friday, October 31, 2025 🔥🎃

🕢 Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA
🎟️ Tickets Required | Ages 21+ | Final Sale
🧙‍♀️ Celebrate Halloween night at Salem’s most legendary costume party featuring music by DJ Addambombb and the Dragon Ritual Drummers, live performances, psychic readings, a costume contest with cash prizes, and ritual magic. The 2025 theme is “Witch and Famous.”

🍂🌙 Salem Witches’ Magic Circle – Friday, October 31, 2025 🌙🍂

📍 Location: Salem Common, Salem, MA
🎟️ Free and Open to the Public
🌌 This public outdoor ritual under the Halloween sky honors the spirit world with powerful ceremonial magic led by Christian Day, Brian Cain, and the Salem Witches.

🕯️🍽️ The Dumb Supper: Dinner with the Dead – Sunday, November 2, 2025 🍽️🕯️

🕡 Time: 6:30 PM (No Late Entry)
📍 Location: Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA
🎟️ Tickets Required | Ages 18+ | Final Sale
🥀 Guests dine in solemn silence as a ritual is performed to honor the departed. The five-course meal is served in reverse to symbolically invite spirits to the table. Attendees may bring photos and mementos for the ancestral altar.

🍵🖤 The Mourning Tea – Sunday, November 2, 2025 🖤🍵

🕚 Time: 11:00 AM
📍 Location: Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA
🎟️ Tickets Required
🎻 A Victorian-style high tea honoring the dearly departed with harp music, poetry, storytelling, and tea leaf readings. Guests are invited to bring memories and tributes for inclusion in the Salem Witches’ Book of the Dead.

🏨✨ Places to Stay Nearby ✨🏨

Stay near the magic with charming accommodations:

In Salem:
Amelia Payson House – 16 Winter Street
The Hotel Salem – 203 Essex Street
Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites – 225 Derby Street
Morning Glory Bed & Breakfast – 22 Hardy Street
Lorelei’s Love Nest – 125 Essex Street
The Merchant – 148 Washington Street
Winter Island Park – 50 Winter Island Road
The Warlock House – Salem, MA
The Coach House – 284 Lafayette Street
Daniels House Inn – 1 Daniels Street
The Cove at Salem – 40 Bridge Street
Northey Street House Bed & Breakfast – 30 Northey Street
The Salem Inn – 7 Summer Street
Stepping Stone Inn – 19 North Washington Square
Silsbee’s by the Daniels House – 53 Essex Street
Hawthorne Hotel – 18 Washington Square West
Hampton Inn Salem – 11 Dodge Street

Nearby Towns:
Addison Choate – 49 Broadway Avenue, Rockport, MA
The Hotel at Cape Ann Marina – 75 Essex Avenue, Gloucester, MA
The Hotel Marblehead – 264 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA
Harbor Light Inn & Tavern – 58 Washington Street, Marblehead, MA
Boston Marriott Peabody – 8A Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
Sonesta Select Boston Danvers – 275 Independence Way, Danvers, MA
Boston/Danvers Residence Inn by Marriott – 51 Newbury Street, Danvers, MA
Briar Barn Inn – 101 Main Street, Rowley, MA
The Beverly – 5 Lakeview Avenue, Beverly, MA

✨🌟 These Festival of the Dead events embody the spirit of Salem’s magical heritage, blending old-world tradition with powerful rituals and spiritual connection. 🌟✨

🔗 Official Website: Festival of the Dead