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Home of Alaska's longest-running show, with a resident the staff call malevolent
6th Avenue and Broadway, Skagway, AK 99840
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Ticketed daytime and evening performances of the Days of '98 Show; buy through the show's website.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Flat downtown corner in Skagway's historic district; the hall is a ground-level theater.
Equipment
No Photos
Est. 1920 · Klondike Gold Rush · Skagway Historic District · Alaska's longest-running show
Eagles Hall occupies the corner of 6th Avenue and Broadway in Skagway, the port town that boomed during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. The Fraternal Order of Eagles, organized in Skagway in 1899, built the present hall around 1920 by combining and refitting earlier structures, including a former hotel from the gold-rush years. The building sits inside the Skagway Historic District, a National Historic Landmark that preserves much of the boomtown's commercial core.
The hall is best known for the Days of '98 Show, which has been staged there since 1923. The production began when local residents put on a show for arriving steamship tourists to raise money, and it grew into a fixture marketed as the longest-running show in Alaska. The melodrama dramatizes the rise and fall of Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith, the confidence man who ran Skagway's rackets until he was killed in a waterfront shootout in 1898.
In season the company performs several daytime shows and a longer evening program. The evening performance opens with audience games and recitations of Robert Service poetry before the main melodrama. The combination of the period hall and the century-old production has made Eagles Hall one of Skagway's enduring visitor attractions, separate from the ghost stories that the staff have collected over the years.
Sources
Unlike Skagway's gentler hotel legends, the Eagles Hall stories describe a presence the staff treat warily. In a 2023 Skagway News feature on local businesses that share space with their ghosts, Days of '98 Show co-owner Charity Pomeroy described a male presence she called malevolent and said plainly that she and the spirit were not yet friends. She recounted sitting at her sewing machine when a doorknob turned and a door slammed open, with no wind outside to account for it. She told the paper she planned to leave out honorary whiskey shots to try to improve relations.
The article gathered additional accounts from people connected to the hall, including reports of being pushed or shoved and of hearing voices in the building. The hall's age and its layout of dressing rooms and back-of-house spaces give those reports a setting, and the staff's approach has been less to investigate than to coexist with whatever they think is there.
No formal paranormal investigation of Eagles Hall has been documented. The stories circulate through the people who work the building and through local press rather than through ghost-hunting groups, which keeps them closer to workplace folklore than to a marketed haunted attraction.
Notable Entities
A vaudeville-style melodrama about the Klondike gold-rush con man Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith, performed in Eagles Hall since 1923 and billed as Alaska's longest-running show. Several daytime performances and a longer evening show run in season, the evening program opening with games and Robert Service poetry.
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