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Peabody Essex Museum

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OVERVIEW

Successor to the East India Marine Society founded by Salem sea captains in 1799, PEM holds one of the nation's oldest continuously operating museum collections, including the 1825 East India Marine Hall. It stewards more than twenty historic buildings, among them several of Salem's reputedly haunted period houses.

REPORTED ACTIVITY

Ghost lore clusters around the museum's historic house properties, where visitors report cold spots and apparitions in period rooms.

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Open to the public as a major art and culture museum.

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