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Welcome to Booze & Ghouls as we climb Castle Hill in Sitka, Alaska—where colonial battles, ancestral resilience, Russian micromanagers, and phantom cannon blasts all left their fingerprints. This isn’t your average haunting; it’s a whole spectral council meeting on one hill.

Resources Used

The Russians in America: 1799–1867 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Russian-American Company Records – Alaska State Archives (Sitka)
Tlingit Oral Histories – Sealaska Heritage Institute
U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service – Sitka National Historical Park documentation
Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867 by Lydia T. Black
The Tlingit Indians by George T. Emmons (ed. Frederica de Laguna)
Alaska’s History: The People, Land, and Events of the North Country by Harry Ritter
Colonial Sitka: Conflict at the Edge of Empire by Katherine L. Arndt
Sitka Historical Society & Museum – local archival accounts
Alaska Office of History & Archaeology – Castle Hill (Noow Tlein) Site Reports
Local ranger and tourism logs documenting modern encounters

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Join husband and wife team, Stan and Colleen, as they dive into all things spooky and paranormal. Stan shares personal stories that seem to have started from birth. Colleen explores haunted places all over the world and brings the history and the spookiness. Stan hands out warnings if you are someone who wants to start exploring supernatural situations. Colleen mixes up drink recipes to keep things boozy.

Have a story you want to share? Email us at booze.and.ghouls.podcast@gmail.com.

If you like what you hear, do all the things to make sure you remember to come back next week. Every Monday a new episode drops and you never know where we will take you. Keep your eyes up because you never know what is around that corner. Thanks for joining us here at Booze & Ghouls!

---Stan and Colleen