Channing Tatum Was ‘Not About’ Ghost Hunting in His Haunted Hotel, Told Daughter, 11, ‘You Go Up There’

Channing Tatum does not share his daughter Everly’s enthusiasm for the paranormal.

The Blink twice star opened up about a recent trip to Salem, Mass. with her 11-year-old, during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week.

The actor, 44, explained that Everly, who he shares with ex-wife Jenna Dewan, is “obsessed” with witches.

“She wanted to go to Salem for maybe the last seven years of her life,” he said of the Massachusetts town known for its infamous witch trials. “And we get there, and I say, ‘Maybe this will be one of those moments where she says, ‘Oh, it’s not what I thought.’ you know?”

Channing Tatum in ‘Late Night’ (left) and in Salem with Everly.

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Channing Tatum tours Salem with daughter Everly, 11: ‘She’s very interested in Halloween’

“It’s like the idea of ​​going to Egypt and thinking there’s only mummies walking around all the time,” he continued. “And I was like, ‘Maybe she’ll just be, like, less hypnotized.'”

But that was not the case.

“She leaned in like that,” said Tatum, who noted that they stayed at the “haunted” Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, which was established in 1925 and appeared on the classic TV show Enchanted according to its website.

Hotel guests have reported moving furniture, seeing a female figure on the sixth floor and mysterious noises, according to Historic Hotels of America. Also featured in the episode Ghost hunters and room 325 was found to be the most haunted.

“They said, ‘Don’t go to the third or sixth floor,'” Channing recalled hotel staff warning them. The actor gladly followed their advice. “I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that at all,'” he said.

However, Everly’s curiosity was piqued by the ghostly possibility of checking out the forbidden floors.

Channing Tatum and daughter Everly in 2021.

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“My daughter said, ‘Let’s go up just a little bit. Like, we just go up and walk up the stairs and, like, look for a second and then run back,’ he said.

“No,” Tatum told host Seth Meyers, shaking his head firmly. “I don’t want that.”

“I’m like, ‘You go up,'” Everly recalled.

Channing Tatum on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’.

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Despite the father-daughter duo’s disagreement over ghost hunting, the vacation was a success.

“She loved it so much,” Tatum said of Salem, home of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. “The whole city, they really lean on its history.”

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Channing Tatum shared new photos of him and daughter Everly (10) on an ‘adventurous’ trip

According to Boston.com, Tatum, Everly, her nanny, Tatum’s sister and family friends spent three days in the New England city.

Beth Crowley, owner of Witch City Walking Tours, told the outlet that Everly is “very interested in Halloween” and witches. The company has created a customized tour for the family with this in mind.

“I want to emphasize that this entire tour was designed and organized for his daughter,” Crowley said. “Which I think is amazing. It shows character. He was simply amazing with his daughter, holding her hand, hugging her, joking with her. It was the best thing to see.”

While sightseeing, the group visited the Gallows Hill Theater, the Witch Dungeon Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum and the Rebecca Nurse Homestead and the Samuel Parris Archeological Site in Danvers.

Crowley added that although people recognized Tatum during the family’s Salem adventure, he was “so gracious and so down-to-earth.”

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