Creek Street Historic District · Ketchikan waterfront
American Ghost Walks operates ghost walking tours in more than a dozen U.S. and Caribbean destinations, including a seasonal Ketchikan program. The Ketchikan Ghost Walk meets at The Rock, a waterfront monument near Berth 2, and covers roughly 1.5-2 hours of downtown Ketchikan on foot, moving between the historic Creek Street district, the waterfront, and several named buildings. The operator's site states the tour draws on historical documents, personal interviews, and archival research, and frames its content as a mix of Ketchikan's Gold Rush-era and maritime history alongside reported paranormal, cryptid, and UFO activity associated with the broader Alaska Triangle region popularized by the TV series of the same name.
The route is described by the operator as wheelchair-friendly with advance notice, running rain or shine given Ketchikan's wet climate, and covering a mix of paved paths and wooden boardwalks.
Sources
- https://www.americanghostwalks.com/tour/ketchikan
ApparitionsCryptid SightingsUnexplained Sounds
The operator's own page frames the Historic Gilmore Hotel around reports of levitating guests, shadowy figures, and the ghost of original owner Pat Gilmore, and the Former Yates Hospital around unspecified reported deaths tied to the building's history as Ketchikan's first hospital. Creek Street, the city's former red-light district, is covered through reported spirits the operator names as Big Dolly and Black Mary, tied to the district's history. The tour also references the Chief Kyan and Chief Johnson totem poles in connection with Tlingit cultural and spiritual traditions, including reincarnation accounts the operator attributes to research by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, and separately narrates an early-1900s account from prospector Harry Colp describing an encounter with unidentified creatures near Thomas Bay, north of Ketchikan.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, describing what the tour covers rather than an independently verified account of any location's history or of Tlingit tradition. It is included here as a description of the tour's content, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
Media Appearances
- The Alaska Triangle (TV series)
