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Salem's Sinister Tribunal: William Stoughton's Judgement
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True crime at its darkest.Hosted by Josh Waters14 min episode

Salem's Sinister Tribunal: William Stoughton's Judgement

July 21, 202213mEpisode 14

Show Notes

Beneath Salem's quiet countenance, a judge thirsted for blood — and found it all too satisfying...

Step into the sinister shadows of Salem, where the gavel once rose with malevolence unparalleled. William Stoughton presided — judge, jury, executioner — over a frenzy of superstition and hysteria. Fifty scores and twenty years hence, the tale rings with echoes of madness; of innocents condemned by whim and whispers, their names carved into the grave-cold stones of New England.

Behold this tribunal of nightmares, where gathering storms of ignorance cast souls adrift without mercy. Stoughton, a puppet crafted by conviction and fear, leads us into Salem's darkness — a danse macabre that leaves a mark on our hearts and etches silence on the voice of justice.

Content warning: References to historical executions and injustice.

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