Pickman House

The Pickman House is a first period structure located on Charter Street in Salem, Massachusetts, behind the Peabody Essex Museum.

[2] In addition to its age, the home is also notable for having residences over the subsequent years which include; Judge and Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Benjamin Lynde, Jr., and artist Michele Felice Corne.

[2] Architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings stated that the "room at the left with leanto roof at right angles may have existed at the outset, and was later raised to a full two stories about 1725.

While there was no mention of a bathroom or living room area, the museum included a red barn beside the house which operated as a gift shop.

Author Sam Baltrusis states in his book that several people on tours have allegedly seen a full-bodied apparition of a girl in the upper-floor window.

[4] The father is said to have slowly gone insane from an evil entity and murdered both his seven-year-old daughter and wife before fleeing the house.