The Most Haunted Places in Alaska

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   1. Alaskan Hotel & Bar Juneau · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   The Alaskan Hotel opened in 1913 in Juneau during the Gold Rush, its early years including rooms used by sex workers, common in mining-boom towns. Legend holds that a woman named Alice was left behind by a husband who never returned from the goldfields and turned to that work before her death. Guests report a blonde woman in white in the halls and bar, flickering lights, and footsteps, with Room 315 recurring in the stories.

   4 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1917-2019 · retold in 2 later publications

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   2. Historic Anchorage Hotel Anchorage · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   The Historic Anchorage Hotel's Annex dates to 1936, expanding a 1916 hotel from when Anchorage was a tent camp. In 1921 the city's first police chief was found dead in an alley beside the hotel, an unsolved case until 2024 research concluded it was a covered-up suicide. Guests keep a shared ghost log noting a girl in period dress upstairs and televisions and faucets in rooms 215 and 217 turning on by themselves.

   3 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1921-2011 · retold in 6 later publications

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   3. Birch Hill Cemetery Fairbanks · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Birch Hill Cemetery was laid out above Fairbanks in 1938 on land donated by miner Tony Zimmerman, partly to honor his late wife's wish to be buried there. It holds pioneers including Elam Harnish and governor Mike Stepovich. Local lore describes a 'White Lady' in period dress among the graves with two child apparitions, and drivers below report glowing orbs over the hill, with a 2012 investigation recording an unexplained woman's voice.

   1 original account · documented across 2 decades, 1938-2001 · retold in 4 later publications

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   4. Van Gilder Hotel Seward · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   Built in 1916, the Van Gilder Hotel is Seward's oldest surviving hotel and once hosted President Harding's traveling party in 1923. Its best-known story concerns Fannie Guthery, a woman killed by her husband inside the hotel in 1947. Guests describe a tall blonde woman in a blue dress on the second floor, along with moved objects, an impression left on a made bed, and occasionally the building shaking.

   2 original accounts · documented in 1947 · retold in 2 later publications

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   5. Red Onion Saloon Skagway · Haunted Dining / Bar · Family Comfort: Moderate

   The Red Onion Saloon opened in 1898 in Skagway during the Klondike Gold Rush, a saloon downstairs with ten small rooms, called cribs, upstairs where women worked under a series of madams. Staff describe a presence they call Lydia, believed to have been one of those women, tied to footsteps on the empty second floor, the smell of perfume, and a sense of being watched. Some accounts add a second, less welcoming male presence.

   3 original accounts · retold in 9 later publications

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