Solution for the HAUNTED HISTORY HUNT:
The Red Onion Saloon in Skagway, Alaska, haunted by ghosts, with Lydia and John being the most active.
1. SILENT STONE SENTINEL = Skagway, Alaska. Skagway (Pretty Woman) was the nickname of Kanagoo, a mythical woman who transformed herself into stone.
2. SCARLET SMELLY SPECIES = Red Onion
3. BEER BRANDY BOURBON = Drinks served at a saloon (they are not all spirits, though!)
4. TEN TEMPTING TOYS = Ten dolls were placed on the saloon counter so men could indicate which woman in the brothel they had selected.
5. MOVERS MADE MISTAKE = The building was moved and inadvertently set down backwards. Instead of turning it around, they simply cut the front and back off and reattached them so the front façade was facing the street.
6. LADY LIKES LILACS = Ghost Lydia leaves behind a scent of fresh-cut lilacs
7. MALODOROUS MISCHIEF MAN = Malevolent ghost John gives off a terrible body odor
8. THREE THAT TELL = Use the website What3Words to find the three words that pinpoint...
9. WHERE WE WAIT = ...the Red Onion Saloon, which is located using these three words: GRUMBLES.GUIDE.CREDIT
The title and all the phrases in this hunt are three words
The solution, Red Onion Saloon is three words
The titles and descriptions of the prizes I mentioned are each three words
And when I posted the 9th line, WHERE WE WAIT, I included "Outside the box" and "Inside another box" – also three words each.
The answer is obviously three words, but WHAT 3 WORDS?
Eerily, the following What3Word combinations also land on parts of the Red Onion Saloon:
NEGOTIATED.FAMILIAR.RECORDING
(a familiar is a spirit that protects a witch, and ghost hunters use recordings)
ZONED.EVENING.SCRATCHING
(scratching in the evening is often the sign of a ghost)
ICONIC.MORTAL.OCCUPIERS
(these could be the iconic, once-mortal, now immortal ghosts who occupy the saloon)