Alaska is externally renowned for its stunning scenery and cloudy days. It is renowned for paranormal activity, though. Over the years, Alaska has drawn the attention of paranormal bloggers and streamers who want to investigate its haunted hotels, restaurants, and other establishments. We will be virtually touring ten of Alaska’s most haunted locations today.
1. Alaskan Hotel
There are rumours of hauntings in Juneau’s old Alaskan Hotel, particularly in room 315. After 40 years of ownership, Bettye Adams is the hotel’s current owner and even admits she is afraid of the room. The décor of the room gives the impression that it is still from the early 20th century.
There’s a picture of two women who seem to have been working girls and old linens with flowery prints covering the beds. Although there have long been rumours of a haunted room, the first really spooky incident didn’t occur until 2007.
2. Red Onion Saloon
In 1898, the Red Onion Saloon opened. It serves as a museum about brothels these days. Entering the saloon now will feel like you’ve travelled back in time to 1898 because everything is nearly exactly as it was then. Even the museum staff are dressed as 1898 saloon girls to heighten the spooky atmosphere.
It wasn’t always laughter, joy, and amusement in the saloon/museum like it is now. The history of the bar during the height of the Gold Rush was bleak and depressing. Working girls faced risks such as illness, disease, unintended pregnancy, and even death. But for many of them, that career was essential to their survival, and marriage was the only path out.
3. 4th Avenue Theatre
Completed in 1947, the 4th Avenue Theatre marked the end of World War II. Prior to its transformation into a banqueting and conference space in the 1980s, the 960-seat theatre was a beautiful venue. It is important to remember that it still looks like a theatre from the outside.
Locals now assert that a woman’s spirit haunts the theatre. There have been glimpses of her spectral form in the long mirror reflections that separate the men’s and women’s restrooms. The theatre is positioned in the epicentre of an earthquake that struck Anchorage, Alaska, in 1964.
The theatre was under lockdown and was operating at the time. There’s a good chance that the spectral woman is a reincarnation of one of the 121 local residents who perished in the earthquake.
4. Snow City Cafe
The Snow City bistro is a charming bistro that serves delectable soups and sandwiches. From the outside, it looks just like any other cafe. You would never imagine, though, that it has a ghostly guest of its own.
September 30, 1976, saw the murder of Muriel outside the office building where the cafe is now located. Just like every other day, she was leaving work when her car burst into flames as soon as she got inside. While she was at work, her ex-husband had hidden a bomb in her car, and the blast claimed her life prematurely.
Muriel’s spirit still lingers in the cafe late at night. The staff members recognize her for turning on and off the water taps at the different sinks. She’s merely a fun spirit who wishes to be acknowledged, not a malicious one by any means.
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5. West High School
It seems that West High School is much like any other high school. Covered in lockers, athletic fields, and occupied high school students. But its theatre is so exquisite and opulent that you wouldn’t think it was a high school.
This high school auditorium is extremely beautiful, but its well-known ghostly presence is the only thing that makes it inappropriate. There are rumours that she is a Caucasian woman who only haunts the West High School auditorium in Anchorage.
Teachers, students, and outsiders have all seen her for many years. Every now and then, she appears to be standing silently in the shadow of the dark chairs, hardly visible. She has occasionally been seen dashing through hallways and lurking behind the scenes. Nobody still knows the identity of the spirit.
6. The White House Bed and Breakfast
Formerly a hospital, a daycare, and a hotel, the White House Bed and Breakfast dates back to 1902. But before it was repaired, the structure was set on fire in the 1980s and stood abandoned for some time. After the restoration, ghosts started to show up.
A younger woman’s ghost is one that is well-known. Recent bed and breakfast guests have reported that she is chatty and amiable with kids. Some have concluded from this that she was the daycare’s previous owner and that, following her death, she went back to her cherished position.
7. Igloo City Hotel
Since 2005, the Igloo City Hotel has remained vacant. It used to be a four-story hotel with 58 igloo-shaped rooms. However, this hotel never really took off. Building codes were a problem, and there wasn’t much money to invest in it for real success.
Today, many people who pass by frequently use the enormous, graffiti-covered building as a restroom. It also has damaged windows. Let’s just say that it smells worse in the summer than the sidewalks of New York. In addition to seeming run-down, there are rumours that a female spirit haunts the hotel.
Many think she was formerly a local, as they frequently catch her peeking out the hotel’s broken windows.
8. Hotel Captain Cook
Anchorage, Alaska’s Hotel Captain Cook is a five-star establishment. After the devastating earthquake in 1964, construction came to a stop in 1965. In the hotel, paranormal activity is fairly common, even though it’s relatively new.
Often spotted near the lobby’s women’s restroom, the ghost of a white-clad woman is one of the most well-known. Not many people know this, but in 1972, a young woman staying at the hotel committed suicide in that identical restroom.
She isn’t a malicious ghost, but she does play a lot of practical jokes on visitors, like wildly flicking the lights on and off or forcefully slamming the stall doors. Numerous patrons who have observed her disorganized conduct have become so terrified that they have notified the management.
9. Begich Towers
There are 273 people living in Whittier, Alaska, a small town. Of those 273 residents, 215 reside in Begich Towers, a 14-story condominium with communal spaces like churches.
The two most well-known ghosts associated with the condominium are the one who walks around the entire building whistling and the one whose loud stomping is audible when everyone else is asleep. Whittier is essentially a ghost town as well, with many abandoned buildings and an almost barren winter landscape.
10. The Buckner Building
During World War II, the Buckner Building, which is also in Whittier, served as a bunker to safeguard soldiers. For a long time, it was the biggest structure in Alaska, measuring 275,000 square feet (25,548 square meters) and designed to accommodate thousands of soldiers.
But after the soldiers departed in 1966, the massive building was all but deserted. Nobody has taken any action with it as of yet. With Whittier’s population of 273, it makes sense to waste space that size, even though it might startle people in other states.
The dilapidated building is off-limits to visitors today. However, individuals who were able to tour the structure before that regulation assert that it is haunted. Hope you like it. Stay tuned with us on Thegeofacts.com for more amazing updates.