Abandoned Filming Location for SALEM the TV Show

if you have any interest in Salem Massachusetts the history of it the witch trials or if you have watched the TV series Salem that aired from 2014 to 2017 then you're going to love this video in fact even if you have no interest in those things you're still gonna love it because it is an abandoned town a complete seventeenth century style town in the woods of northern Louisiana it's been abandoned since the last filming days probably in 2016 and I'm gonna show you what it looks like now now I could not get inside this property to actually walk around and look inside the buildings I had to use a drone but you're still gonna love this video because I'm going to use original clips from the TV series so you can line them up and you can compare and see what it looks like now because the difference is pretty drastic so it took about two months to construct this entire town about twenty five buildings 13 of them had fully finished custom interiors 17th century style interiors so they could film in them and the town consists of all kinds of things an undertaker a brothel church pub an orphanage blacksmith dining hall tons of stuff here's our our main character or one of the main characters John Alden and he's just off the boat and he's looking up the road at the town and basically the drone is taking that same path where he would have walked right up this road past all these buildings into the main area where his house is and obviously this is where the the gallows the church and the Sibley mansion which I'll get to all of that [Music] which is among us the devil in Salem so starting off right away with the Sibley mansion this is really the the focal point for sure most most things go on here or just in front of it at the gallows clearly it was designed to resemble the house of Seven Gables in Salem Massachusetts and it's actually sometimes even referred to that in the show this was a common scene of Mary Sibley one of the main characters always standing on this balcony overlooking the main area of the town overlooking the gallows watching people go by and you can see the amount of damage or where [Music] Isaac has been afraid yes good [Applause] [Music] so there was a cemetery on the side of this church looks like it was completely removed at this point although if you look closely you can see some random tombstones that are flying around the property I don't know how that happens but the church is really one that I would have loved to have gotten inside because when you watch the show you can see the beautiful woodwork I mean they they really did these buildings perfectly and it would have been nice to see all that continuing showing you the town it starts to go down this corridor and this is kind of like what would be considered the main the built-up area of the town this is where all the stores and the dining rooms and the pubs were and you can see John walking up here and this is Isaac if you look behind Isaac you can see an arch you can see a little bit better here and then when I go to the drone shot you can see the arch has completely fallen down this this area for some reason has not fared well I think it's because most of at least the second stories most of that stuff was really just quickly built just facades and it just has not lasted well at all in the last four years I you know this stuff is gonna start really falling apart which is probably sad for a lot of people to see especially if you worked on this production because they this was such a beautiful set I mean it did the amount of detail that they went into doing on this was really impressive and it's sad to see it like this you can actually look down as i zoom in you can see right down as these buildings see these were just two by fours just facades they obviously didn't use the inside of these here this is also the other end of that corridor you can see the other side of the Fallen arch back there this reddish building here was the town's brothel called the divining rod and lots of scenes were filmed mostly inside but a lot of establishing shots from the outside so we're kind of floating over the slums right now and that was a that well had a couple of scenes a couple bigger scenes this was the kind of the slum II area with a lot of sickly poor people a lot of the darker crime went on in here in this area so flying over the rooftops here we're coming back into the main area in the town this the focal point which is the Gallo setup and many scenes were here with so many people being hanged or just being punished throughout the series in fact I would say that almost every major character found themselves either in a jail cell or in the stocks at some point in this series there was no place for a man like Isaac and George Sibley Salem no place for a teller of uncomfortable truths if I was telling the truth why am I in the stocks that is the price truth if you look closely down below there are two I believe to jail cells down there don't believe you're a witch but I do believe you possess something of dark magic power and so many people were thrown down and into these cells so this was a major part of the series this was a big a major filming area for sure coming back down the road towards the water in the show there was usually a huge ship sitting out there and I heard that after the show wrapped that ship was actually donated to the Shreveport aquarium but I have not been there to see if it was integrated into that place at all I have no idea but the ship was to some extent it was a real I mean it wasn't CGI was they really had a ship there to some extent I'm not really sure and this was supposed to be some sort of an inlet like a bay or something from the ocean but in reality this is just a small beautiful lake that's out in rural Louisiana practice of witchcraft but such a plea is not sufficient to spare your life I want names of others no this is a mistake father this is a mistake miss Embry is no way to observe not going to fear listen to me father this is what I've tried to tell you and now I see it to be true we are doing the devil's work for him and then this is just more of the town you know it almost looks like I was literally just walking around with the camera but I just had the drone very very low and of course I cannot forget to show you John Aldens house this is it right here this blue one it sits in between the church and the Sibley house not too much went on here he just basically came and went at different times but nevertheless here it is this one is in pretty decent shape and clearly John Alden loves to leave his door wide open and here it still sits wide open so that's about it for showing you what this place looks like I'm going to leave you with a really good scene of Cotton Mather being terrorized by one of the witches and thanks for watching I'll see you in the next video have no fear it was just you and me and baby makes me [Music] you

Channel: Mobile Instinct

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Length: 11min 0sec (660 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019