As a former resident, it’s way more than that. This shit starts trickling in as soon as August, I would see tourists coming in to town dressed as skeletons or something before they had the schools back open for the year.

Yup, I used to work in this Salem tourist crush when I lived there and it was hell ever year with each one only getting worse. My pay didn’t increase for all that work but we served hundreds a day at a small cafe when usually we wouldn’t see half of that.

For those wondering October is not the only time it gets busy like this. I’d wager Halloween Time is from August to beginning of November and then the second warm weather hits, it starts up again.