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May 2024
1h 11m

The Salem Industrial Complex

Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne
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In the last 'normal' episode of the Salem Witch Files, we saw Challengers, Blair tells Carley about how Salem embraced its history, boys kissing, the ethics of dark tourism, the dirty boy versus the clean boy, and what dark places we'd like to visit.


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Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne

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Music by: Jacob Ollivier

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