Whitewater is known as “Second Salem” due to it’s many enduring legends of witchcraft centered around the Starin Park water tower, an axe-murdering witch named Mary Worth, and more. But this small college town also has a deep history of the paranormal since the Morris Pratt Institute for Spiritualism opened around the turn of the century. Some believe these practices of seance and other forms of communication with the dead have the the town deeply haunted, particularly within the “Witch’s Triangle” formed by the town’s three cemeteries.
