What are the most interesting things that happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Belief in superstition, the supernatural and of the power of "witches" to bring evil upon victims using powers granted them by the devil was widespread in colonial New England. It was against this backdrop, that, in 1692, a group of young girls living in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to have been possessed by the devil and accused several area women of practicing witchcraft. Colonial life could be harsh and unpredictable. The area around Salem Village (what is today Danvers, Massachusetts) had just suffered through a smallpox epidemic; was still experiencing deprivation as a result of recent fighting between the French and the British; and residents were often suspicious and mistrustful of outsiders.
The first two girls to exhibit strange symptoms were 9- and 11-year-old sisters who experienced violent fits and bouts of screaming and were diagnosed as "bewitched" by a local doctor. Later, five other village girls began exhibiting similar symptoms, and the girls accused three women—Tituba, one of the affected family's Caribbean slave; Sarah Good, a local beggar; and a poor, elderly woman named Sarah Osborn. Although the latter two denied any involvement with witchcraft, Tituba confessed, likely in an effort to win better treatment by incriminating the others. Her dramatic descriptions of invoking the devil helped induce a witch hysteria that swept through the community, as more and more witches were accused until the influx could no longer be handled by the small town's justice system.
Ultimately, the Massachusetts governor convened a special court to hear the cases, and 19 women were hanged for witchcraft, while another 7 died in prison. Thankfully, by 1693, cooler heads prevailed, and the hysteria died down; all people remaining in prison on suspicion of witchcraft were pardoned.