Haunting Halloween: A 1974 Night at Hawthorne Hill

Halloween Night, 1974

This is a true story. I know because I lived through it.

Though I’ll admit there have been times over the years when I’ve wondered if it all happened exactly the way I remember it. October has a way of messing with your memory in New England. Maybe it’s the fog. Maybe it’s the cold. Maybe it’s all those old stories hanging in the air.

Still, there are some things I know happened.

It was Halloween night, 1974.

While most people were home handing out candy, coming back from parties, or calling it a night, I found myself at one o’clock in the morning being driven up a narrow winding road toward a place called Hawthorne Hill.

I wasn’t sure why I was being taken up that hill.

And if I’m being honest, I wasn’t sure I wanted to find out.

This story first appeared on my Substack. It’s the true account of a Halloween night in 1974 when a woman named Maria drove me up Hawthorne Hill to one of the most feared places in New England, Danvers State Hospital.

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