Show Notes
High above Port Townsend, Washington, stands Manresa Castle, a Victorian mansion with two famous ghosts. One is said to be a Jesuit priest who hanged himself in the attic. The other is “English Kate,” a pregnant young woman who supposedly leapt from a third-floor window after learning her lover had died at sea. Guests still report footsteps, weeping, strange odors, and figures appearing in their rooms. But when historians went looking for the deaths behind those hauntings, they found a problem: neither tragedy appears to have happened.
Tonight, we explore the ghosts of Manresa Castle, the history behind its legends, and why sometimes the true story a town forgets is darker than the ghost story it chooses to remember.
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