Salem Wasnt Random—It Was Planned Four Years Earlier

In 1692, the town of Salem descended into a madness that has haunted America for over 300 years. But what if Salem was not the beginning? What if the entire catastrophe was a near-perfect recreation of a forgotten case that had occurred four years earlier? This documentary unmasks the secret history of the 1688 Goodwin Witchcraft Trials, the terrifying and bizarre story of a Boston family's torment that became the blueprint for the inferno to come.

We dive deep into the world of Puritan Boston, a society wracked by political turmoil and the constant fear of a literal war with the Devil. We will meet the afflicted Goodwin children and deconstruct their strange, theatrical "fits." We will unmask the tragic story of Goody Glover, the elderly Irish Catholic woman who became the perfect scapegoat. And we will enter the mind of the brilliant and obsessive minister, Cotton Mather, who, in his quest to prove the reality of the invisible world, took charge of the case and wrote a sensationalist, best-selling book that would change history.

This feature-length documentary, based on a forensic analysis of the primary historical sources, proves that the Salem Witch Trials were not a random explosion of hysteria. They were the predictable and horrifyingly logical culmination of the events that began in Boston. Mather's book, Memorable Providences, provided a deadly, step-by-step playbook for the accusers and authorities in Salem. This is the story of that playbook, and the forgotten fire that lit the fuse for America's most infamous witch hunt.

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