10 Great What-Ifs of American History

What If the Salem Witch Trials Never Happened? (1x8)

Air date: Jan 01, 2024

At first, it might sound bizarre to imagine the United States having witch trials in the 20th century, but it didn’t happen because the Salem Witch Trials took the possibility off the table more than 300 years ago. Walk through the oddities of 1692 to see how the arguments of two ministers—and one legal loophole—created the worst witch hunt in American history.