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Each year, many Festival of the Dead events, including The Official Salem Witches Halloween Ball, The Dumb Supper, The Vampire’s Masquerade Ball, Grave Spirits, Journeys to the Underworld, Voodoo Cemetery Gods, Ms. Firefly's School of Spirit Conjuration, and Dark Faerie Magick, are held at the famed Lyceum Bar and Grill, 43 Church Street in Salem, a haunted restaurant in the heart of historic downtown. The Lyceum is built on the site of Bridget Bishop’s apple orchard and it is said that at times you can catch the scent of apples in the air when wandering the upstairs rooms where events are held. Throughout the mid-19th century, The Lyceum was the site of many an intellectual speech or discussion designed for “mutual education and rational entertainment” of attendees and included such luminaries of the day as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Daniel Webster. This charming restaurant is also the location of the first public demonstration of the telephone on February 12, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell which was originally created as a device to contact the dead. More recently, the Lyceum Bar and Grill has been featured on Best Of, a Food TV Cable Network show and was even the setting of a seance filmed by Showtime Cable Network. During the seance, which was organized by Festival of the Dead collaborators Robert Murch, Gary Halteman, Shawn Poirier, Christian Day, and Sandra Power, spirit orbs appeared in the photographs, a paranormal phenomenon, and the crew couldn't understand why the sound and camera equipment wouldn't work for over an hour! We knew. This same type of phenomena also took place during the Food Network taping and other media explorations of the space. The Lyceum is undeniably haunted and we think that Bridget, while sometimes mischievous, help give the restaurant the warm, friendly glow that permeates its atmosphere.

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Directions to Lyceum Bar & Grill
Follow Rte 128 N To Exit 25A (Rte 114 East-Salem). Follow the 114 East Signs. From Exit 25A travel approx. 2.3 miles on Rte 114. Pass Hess Gas Station / HMA Car Care on the left. Continue straight, up over the overpass. Take first right, marked Rte 107, Beverly. At the bottom of the ramp, turn right onto Bridge St. At the blinking light at small rotary, turn right onto Washington St. Take the first left you can, which is Church St. The Lyceum is the second building on the right, #43 There is a small parking lot on the same side of the street, and also diagonally across the street (take the first left at the end of the street after you pass the Lyceum and then the first left again to enter the lot on far side).

From Logan Airport
Exit airport and go right onto 1A (the main road running past the airport). Take 1A to Rte 1N to Rte 128N and follow directions to Rte 114E.

Address
The Lyceum Bar and Grill
43 Church Street
Salem, MA 01970

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