Featured regularly in the local Sonoma Business magazine, on NBC's national show, In Wine Country, and on the international video travel site TurnHere.com, Carla Heine has lectured at the Sonoma Historical Society, the Fairmont Hotel, many of the local schools, as well as at private parties, and at corporate events. Carla Heine also teaches about Sonoma's haunted past at the Sonoma High School's Adult Education classes.

Carla Heine attended Prestwood School in Sonoma and graduated from Sonoma Valley Union High with the class of 1970.

A contributing member of the Sonoma community for over 40 years, Carla Heine was with the Sonoma Ballet Conservatory for 35 years, and taught for over a decade at Saint Francis Solano School. She was instrumental in reopening The Sebastiani Theatre for live productions in 1970, after a 20-year moratorium.

For over five years, Carla Heine has hosted "Strange Wine - History and the Paranormal in The Valley of the Moon", which airs live every Saturday night from 11pm to midnight on KSVY91.3FM and worldwide on the Internet.

From behind heavy silver tea sets, in the salons of Sonoma's most powerful citizens, Carla Heine listened to their stories every Sunday afternoon at four o'clock high tea, from 1966 to 1976.

When the men retired to the drawing rooms in their evening clothes for cigars and brandy, the generational Chinese servants refreshed the tea and watercress sandwiches. Carla was hardly seen and never heard, and as she continued to "pour out" these remarkable women discussed the century-old stories of Sonoma's hidden history.

It is said that houses are not haunted, but that people are haunted. As you read this collection of Sonoma's haunted past, it will be up to you to decide if that is true, or not. And you may discover, as Carla Heine discovered, that not only a house, or a person can be haunted, but an entire town can be haunted.

Carla lives with her retired husband, John Mirsberger, a former Marine from New York City, on Blue Wing Drive. John is a really, really nice man.

Mr. And Mrs. Mirsberger’s home is just south of the Sonoma Mountain Cemetery. They have very quiet neighbors, and a good dog named Jake.