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The Witch
After losing her job and apartment, Julia Barlow retreats to Pemberton — her family’s sprawling estate in rural northern Massachusetts — to check on her aging grandmother Letitia and the aunt who shares the house. The grandfather clock stops at 3:41 a.m., lights flicker, and a voice cries for help from rooms that should be empty. Museum curator Henry Ziegler wants the property; Julia’s father pushes a sale and assisted living; great-aunt Ethel fights to keep the past buried. In 1692, Caroline Eldridge is accused of witchcraft on the land Archibald Eldridge calls his, while Jonas Reeve is scapegoated as the Night Reaper. Two centuries braid into one inheritance, and every ghost story may be a cover for something human, recent, and far worse.
“Some hauntings are history. Some are alibis.”
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Plan your meeting
The Witch This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Pemberton at dusk or Woodhaven Museum by day?
- 2. Grandfather clock or Flickering lights?
- 3. 1692 timeline or Present timeline?
- 4. Rural Massachusetts autumn or City apartment lease ending?
- 5. Real ghost or Human con artist?
- 6. Family estate or Assisted living facility?
- 7. Museum acquisition or Private inheritance?
- 8. Dig for truth or Leave the yard alone?
- 9. Whispers at 3:41 a.m. or Silence you can’t trust?
- 10. Gothic library or Drafty upstairs bedroom?