The city of Salem was covered under a blanket of ghosts, goblins, and every other costume imagineable on Halloween.

“There’s no place like this, no place like this,” said one man sporting some spooky face paint.

“It’s the Halloween capital of the world,” said another man.

People from all over the U.S. gathered to be in the epicenter of the haunted happenings.

“We’re Texas girls!” said a group of women dressed as witches. “I know you can’t tell because we look so natural and we fit in so well here.”

A month-long festival filled with spine-chilling fun culminated Friday with tens of thousands of costume-clad visitors converging on the Witch City.

“Everyone’s looking to do something they haven’t done before, or be someone they haven’t been before,” said one man.

Officials have been bra

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