Nineteen were hanged, including the author's seven-times-great grandmother, one was crushed to death, and five died in prison. Why? Were the so-called "afflicted" faking their symptoms as many historians maintain? Findings by University of Virginia researchers have led bestselling author Stephen Hawley Martin to formulate a compelling new theory about what caused the witch hysteria that ravaged the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. He pursues several avenues of investigation that include the remarkable power of belief, the possibility indicated by quantum physics experiments that thought creates reality, and he arrives at an explanation no one would have considered possible before the U.Va. findings were released.Bewitched? is nothing less than a riveting, real-life murder mystery-the ultimate reality show no one who wants to know the truth ought to miss.