🧙‍♀️ The Glitched Gavel S02E03: The Village vs. The Voodoo (The Salem Witch Trials)

Gavel (The Narrator/Prosecutor): "Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1692. The darkness was not just the lack of electricity, but the absence of reason. This week, we excavate the most haunting case of mass hysteria in American history: the trials and executions that gripped a fearful Puritan town. When the Gavel falls here, it doesn't represent justice; it signifies panic." (A sudden, high-pitched, feminine scream is heard, quickly cut off by a harsh digital distortion and a deep, pulsing electronic hum.)

Static (The Analyst/Defense): "The legal basis for this mass murder was 'Spectral Evidence'—the testimony of the afflicted that they saw the accused's specter tormenting them ...