104. The Groton "Witch" | Salem The Podcast

Christopher Davis

2 months ago

facts, ts is bad

Griffin Bowman

2 months ago

NOOOO wrong the citations are garbage

Griffin Bowman

2 months ago

The website is bad the sources have no helpful evidence and the sources are not about the topic were learning.

Gisele Yang

2 months ago

BARK BARKK

Ilana Oliveira

2 months ago

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Felix McGinley

2 months ago

### The Groton Witch Trials Website: A Historical Disaster of Epic Proportions In an age where the internet gives us access to the entire sum of human knowledge, it’s amazing—and a little depressing—how bad some websites can still be. A prime example is the website about the **Groton Witch Trials**, which manages to be both historically inaccurate *and* visually painful. It’s less a source of information and more a digital haunted house—except instead of ghosts, it’s filled with broken links, spelling mistakes, and fonts that seem cursed by Comic Sans itself. Let’s start with the **design**, or whatever you want to call it. The homepage looks like it was built in 1999 and hasn’t been updated since. There are flashing banners, random colors, and images that refuse to load, as if the ghosts of Groton personally sabotaged the code. Trying to navigate the site is like being lost in the woods without a map—only instead of trees, you’re surrounded by pop-up ads and “Page Not Found” errors. If the Salem Witch Trials had a website, it would probably have burned this one at the stake for being an abomination. Moving on to **accuracy**, or rather, the complete lack of it. The author boldly claims that “dozens of witches were burned” in Groton, which is impressive considering there’s no historical record of that ever happening. At all. It’s as if someone watched a few episodes of *Sabrina the Teenage Witch* and decided to rewrite early American history based on that. Not a single source is cited—not even a Wikipedia link. The site’s idea of “research” seems to be whatever the author could remember from a spooky campfire story.