{"id":2398,"slug":"connecticut-witch-trial-sites-hartford-connecticut","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hartford is the first — the 'Alice Young' that's the colonies' first, the '1647' that's the year's mark. The 'party blamed' is the sparked — the 'Christmas' that's the gathering's sin, the 'Greensmiths' that's the hanged's pair. The 'elm stood' is the lost — the 'hanging tree' that's the 'til '30's state, the 'storm took' that's the end's form.","The 'three times' is the tried — the 'Seager' that's the woman's name, the 'reprieved' that's the third's luck. The 'unknown spot' is the honest — the 'don't know' that's the gallows' truth, the 'Meeting House' that's the guessed's site. Hartford is the preceded — the '40 years' that's the Salem's gap, the 'panic first' that's the timeline's order.","The file keeps Hartford: the first hanging, the blamed party, the lost elm, and the thrice tried.","Connecticut witch sites are the archive's file — the trials that came four decades before Salem."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Connecticut witch sites are the archive's file — the panic Salem overshadowed.","A green keeps its brick — the file's suggestion being that Hartford's hold is the first: the '1647' that's the year's mark, the 'Alice' that's the victim's name, and the 'lost' that's the gallows' truth."]}],"name":"Connecticut Witch Trial sites","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","WITCH_HISTORY"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"America’s first witch execution—Alse Young, 1647, decades before Salem.","full_desc":"Connecticut Witch Trial sites is a historic site in Hartford, Connecticut. America’s first witch execution—Alse Young, 1647, decades before Salem. It sits in the archive under witch history and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Hartford","county":null,"state":"Connecticut","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.765933,"lon":-72.681579,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Occult/museum batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1840,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The trials are documented history—the lore is minimal beside the fact. The reports at Connecticut Witch Trial sites are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Connecticut witch trials","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_witch_trials","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Alse Young’s 1647 Hartford execution is documented as the colonies’ first. Connecticut Witch Trial sites' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Connecticut witch trials'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1647","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Connecticut witch trials","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_witch_trials","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Connecticut witch trials","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_witch_trials","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}