Case file · Witch trials
Eunice 'Goody' Cole of Hampton
Eunice Cole, convicted in 1656, was the only woman found guilty of witchcraft in New Hampshire. She spent years in prison in Boston and died in Hampton in 1680.
1656 CE · 42.94, -70.84 · status: official
The account
She was accused again in later decades and lived out her life as the town's outcast. Local lore has her ghost walking Hampton; in the 20th century the town formally sought to restore her good name.
The sceptical view
The ghost stories are modern folklore; the conviction itself is documented in court records.