Turbo, Kruger and Thor To Lead Salem’s Haunted Happenings Grand Parade!

Thursday, October 4th, the Salem Chamber of Commerce will host the 17th Annual Haunted Happenings Grand Parade. This year’s theme will be “World Animal Day,” a holiday that has been celebrated since 1931 and is recognized worldwide. World Animal Day is celebrated through fundraising events, volunteering at animal shelters, and special school projects just to name a few.

This year the Salem Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce some special Grand Marshals for their upcoming Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, the new Salem K-9 Unit. Salem’s Project K-9 has successfully raised enough money to bring three German Shepard Police K-9’s to the Salem Police Department. The local community enthusiastically raised money for Project K-9 through raffles, a Dunk-A-Cop at the Chamber’s Essex Street Fair in August and other fund raising efforts. The K-9s Turbo, Kruger, and Thor will join Mayor Driscoll and other dignitaries to lead the parade and help celebrate World Animal Day.   

The parade will start at 6:30pm from Shetland Properties on Congress Street and turns left onto Derby Street, right onto Central Street, left onto Front Street, right onto Washington Street, right onto the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall and finishes at the Salem Common where there will be a party with DJ Doug to entertain the crowd.

For more information, please visit salem-chamber.org.

Special deal at Salem's 13 Ghosts in 3D

Salem's 13 Ghosts in 3D has been updating their presentation and sprucing up the place, and this weekend is their grand re-opening!  To celebrate the re-opening, they are offering a buy-one, get-one free special on museum admission.


Follow them on Facebook for more information and more specials!

There will be an abundance of unique shopping in Salem this October

Salem is a hip little shopping destination, with boutiques and galleries and fashion and cosmetics and soaps and jewelry and a little bit of everything.


It's an eclectic mix, and it's an eclectic city. So it works.

It's about to get even more eclectic.  New England Open Markets is going to join us for Haunted Happenings, creating the Salem Open Market along Essex Street and in Derby Square.  New England Open Markets is most known for their weekly (seasonal) SoWa Open Market in South Boston, and they also run markets on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Hingham, Newport, and Providence. And now Salem.

We expect the new Salem Open Market will compliment all of the unique shopping we already have in Salem, and we hope you will be sure to visit our year-round stores as well as browsing the Open Market stalls. 

As if that's not enough shopping, the Annual Salem Biz Baz Street Fair, which is run by the Salem Chamber of Commerce, will return on October 6 & 7.  The Salem Open Market will be here on the weekends of October 13-14, 20-21, and 27-28.

We love to shop, so the more options, the better!

For a complete listing of events and programs during Salem Haunted Happenings, visit HauntedHappenings.org.