Our Tour Guides

 

A seasoned raconteur, Salem historian, CPA, and former sports/news journalist. Giovanni has always had a love for history and antiquity so giving tours in a major historic city is a perfect fit. "Seeing the expression on guests' faces when I tell them our history provides the same joy for me as watching someone open a present I just gave them," he says.

 

He has been giving tours and has studied Salem's history for over 14 years. Giovanni has also performed standup, improv, and sketch comedy throughout New England and NYC and continues to do so. He is a SAG actor, having been in local and feature films, including Psychotica, Friction, Central Intelligence and Daddy’s Home 2. More info at www.GiovanniAlabiso.com

 

A comic and impressionist who has performed and taught stand up, sketch, and improv comedy to enthusiastic audiences around the world. This is his fifth year as a tour guide with the company. Bob (known to his ghost tours as “Boo”) considers himself to be a small medium at large.

 

He says, “I can’t always communicate with a ghost when I want to, but when they want to communicate with me they come through loud and clear.” Bob can also be seen as Nathaniel Hawthorne in “The Scarlet Letter(s): the life and loves of Nathaniel Hawthorne” which he also wrote and directed. He looks forward to having you on a tour.

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Stash is an actor-singer and stand-up comic and chi gong disciple. Stash has a deep love of history and literature and all things bizarre. Major fan of Lovecraft and related lore. 

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Stash has starred in 6 independent films that have won awards around the globe. Including Out of This Word The Ricky Limes Story as well as Spy Tops Spy. Has also appeared a a stuntman in various films.

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Richard Hite is the author of In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692, which focuses on the involvement of the town of Andover in the witchcraft persecution.  He has had a lifelong interest in the Salem witchcraft episode and has taken advantage of the opportunity to research it further since moving to New England in 2003. 

 

His day job is at the Rhode Island State Archives and he is also an avid hiker. He appreciates the opportunity to lead tours and inform others of the details of the events of 1692.

 

Robert is happy to be celebrating his fifth year as a guide here at Salem Historical Tours.  When not working as a tour guide, Robert works in therapy for children, focusing on helping kids with autism navigate life's waters.  He has been an actor for about 25 years, appearing in/directing many central MA productions as well as appearing in the web series "Skitcom" for the last few years. 

 

Finishing a masters in history, Robert is fascinated by Salem's maritime empire's rise and fall and has been a lover of horror and the supernatural all his life.

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Dan Gagnon is the author of A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse and has spent many years researching the Salem Village Witch-Hunt of 1692, and Danvers history in general. He serves on the board of directors of the Rebecca Nurse Homestead Museum in Danvers, is a member of the Danvers Historical Society, and serves on the Town of Danvers’ Salem Village Historic District Commission. He has shared his research through many in-person and online programs, including C-Span's television program American History TV, and has served as a subject-matter expert for local media. He is also a history teacher at a school on the North Shore of Massachusetts, 

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Corinne first learned about the Salem Witch Trials after finding a book about Tituba in her middle school library and a life long passion was born. After moving to Salem in 2023, she fell in love with the rich history in town and began learning everything she could. Within a few months she began working as a tour guide and never looked back. As a former actress and teacher—and constant history nerd—leading tours has been a perfect way to combine her skills and interests. 

When she’s not leading tours or continuing to build her Salem knowledge, Corinne can be found crocheting hats for her feline familiars Rorschach and Fish Stick, taking long walks around Salem with her husband, or playing trivia at her favorite local pub. She plans to start a podcast telling historical true crime tales in the near future.

 

Christine has appeared on stage and film in NY/NJ/MA and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.  Supporting witches & ghosts has opened new doors for her here in New England. 2018 was a bewitching year portraying Sarah Good, who was one of the first women executed in the 1692 Salem

 

Witchcraft Trials, in Saltonstall (One man's stand against the Salem Witch Trials) at NECC and writing - producing - performing "Was Susannah North Martin a Witch?" Previously she fell for the ghosts of Cape May, NJ as a summer tour guide and is pleased to share the stories of the Salem spirits now. When not on stage, set, or the streets of Salem, she can be found supporting and fundraising for local events in Amesbury, MA.

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