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Explore 50 haunted places in Alaska. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Seward, Alaska · Hotel
Seward’s A Swan Nest Inn has a modest haunting tradition involving footsteps in rooms and furniture apparently moved by an unseen prankster. A submitted account connects the inn to an older public building that was rescued from proposed demolition, but the paranormal reports do not identify a particular historical resident. The best-supported editorial approach is to keep the phenomena and place name, without inventing a tragedy to explain them.
Anchorage, Alaska · Other
The Alaska Aviation Museum’s paranormal reputation includes footsteps and voices heard without an obvious speaker. A submitted account describes a tall dark figure in an exhibition area and a woman dressed like an aviator elsewhere in the building. Those descriptions do not establish the identities of deceased pilots or link the museum’s aircraft to particular tragedies. The profile records staff-attributed stories at a named museum. Visitors should use its normal public program and never approach exhibits, aircraft, work areas or private facilities as though a haunting claim overrides museum rules.
Juneau, Alaska · Hotel
Juneau’s Alaskan Hotel and Bar has a female-ghost tradition frequently linked to upstairs guest rooms. A paranormal-directory retelling places experiences particularly around Rooms 218 and 219, describing both sightings and sensations of a presence. It also recounts an unusual story of a restroom appearing to change era. The tale’s explanation involving a woman, an absent husband and violence is not verified biography. The account is useful as evidence of a hotel legend, while actual history and guest privacy should remain separate from its more dramatic retellings.
Girdwood, Alaska · Hotel
Alyeska Resort’s hotel folklore includes a presence called Chris. A directory account associates him with guest rooms and describes lights, television and faucets switching, drawers opening and a man briefly visible near a bathroom doorway. The reported death offered as the story’s explanation is not verified here.
Skagway, Alaska · Hotel
A gentle woman is the central figure in stories about this Skagway lodging house. A submitted account on Haunted Places describes her standing near guests’ beds and apparently interacting with children. The same account connects her to an earlier day-care use of the building, but that identification is part of the tale rather than an independently established biography. Unlike threatening-haunt narratives, this tradition presents the apparition as companionable. The profile concerns the named White House property, not every historic white-painted home in Skagway.
Soldotna, Alaska · Other
The Soldotna Bailey’s Furniture location appears in a story about unexplained noises near an office and furniture allegedly breaking without an obvious cause. The paranormal-directory account connects the presence to a former grocery business and its owner, but the asserted murder history has not been independently established here. It is therefore retained as a reported backstory rather than a statement about an identified person.
Sitka, Alaska · Other
Castle Hill in Sitka is associated with the Lady in Black, a sorrowful princess figure in older Alaska ghost storytelling. A Princess Lodges retelling describes a jeweled woman dressed in mourning and relates an unhappy-marriage explanation. Those details belong to a legend, not a verified biography of the Russian governors’ families. Alaska’s historic-site material separately documents Castle Hill’s importance and the territorial transfer ceremony.
Ketchikan, Alaska · Cemetery
Ketchikan’s Bayview Cemetery has a startling apparition legend: a headless woman briefly appears along the drive, followed by the impression of a head on the roadway. Haunted Places records this as local cemetery lore without identifying the woman. The more generic Ketchikan graveyard version is treated as the same story and location. This is presented as cemetery folklore, not a verified sighting or an invitation to test the story while driving. Bayview and the more loosely titled Ketchikan graveyard story are treated as the same location rather than duplicate entries.
Whittier, Alaska · Other
Begich Towers in Whittier has accumulated stories of a shadowy shape moving through hallways, disembodied voices, whistling and the sound of chains. Haunted Places presents these as resident reports in a building converted from military use to apartments. The narrative does not identify a particular deceased person or a verified event that explains the sounds.
Fairbanks, Alaska · Cemetery
Birch Hill Cemetery stories describe a girl in an old-fashioned white dress, a floating dark shape and a boy dressed as if from the 1930s. Haunted Places collects these as sightings at the Fairbanks burial ground. The clothing and shapes are features of the reports, rather than verified identities of people buried there. The cemetery is a real burial ground, and its folklore should be approached with the same consideration owed to any memorial place. Avoid treating mourners, distant visitors or ordinary nighttime shapes as evidence of a haunting.
Chugiak, Alaska · Other
Birchwood Saloon in Chugiak is associated with moving objects, strange sounds and footsteps above patrons’ heads. Paranormal accounts variously describe the presence as a poltergeist or the spirit of a man said to have died near the roof. That origin is part of the story and is not independently verified in this profile.
Whittier, Alaska · Other
Whittier’s abandoned Buckner Building has a reputation for lingering military-era spirits. Haunted Places describes the sprawling former complex, with its theater, bowling alley and other amenities, as haunted by presences from its past. The account offers no named ghost or detailed eyewitness case. Its reputation is distinct from the stories told about nearby, occupied Begich Towers.
Fairbanks, Alaska · Other
A miner-like figure reportedly standing on the dredge is the distinctive story attached to Chatanika Gold Dredge. A submission to Haunted Places attributes sightings to people staying at a nearby lodge and visiting the mining machinery. It also mentions other apparitions without giving enough detail to identify them. The account establishes a localized ghost tradition but does not establish who the supposed miner was or how he died. Keep the dredge separate from nearby lodging businesses, and do not infer that abandoned industrial equipment is safe or open for climbing.
Fairbanks, Alaska · Road or bridge
Ghost-light stories along Chena Hot Springs Road focus on roughly miles eight through twelve. Accounts describe blue, orange and white lights that resemble headlights, sometimes seeming to rise or follow a vehicle. The directory places reports in winter after dark but provides no verified explanation for the lights. Other mentions near Birch Hill are not counted as a second road haunt. This is a stretch-of-road tradition rather than a precise visitor destination; an exact coordinate would falsely imply a single established observation point.
Anchorage, Alaska · Other
Chilkoot Charlie’s has a barroom ghost story centered on a male presence. Haunted Places records accounts of women feeling an arm grasp, beers shifting along the bar and an unexplained voice. These anecdotes do not identify a historical individual or establish that supernatural forces caused the sensations.
Central, Alaska · Hotel
The old resort at Circle Hot Springs is associated with a female apparition said to favor the third floor. Accounts collected by Haunted Places also describe footsteps in apparently empty spaces, objects shifting and pictures coming away from walls. The source’s operating information is explicitly old, noting closure in 2013, so it cannot establish present visitor access. Circle Hot Springs and Arctic Circle Hot Springs Resort are treated as one location here rather than separate haunts. No specific historical identity for the woman is established by this research.
Anchorage, Alaska · Hotel
An Anchorage Courtyard by Marriott appears in a room-specific ghost account collected by Haunted Places. The story concerns Room 201 and a man said to have died there before being discovered. No independent evidence for that death was established in this research, so it remains a purported explanation within the legend. Other directory traditions add figures around the grounds, but those are not separate locations. The property’s modern chain branding is incidental: this profile records one Anchorage site’s reputation, not a claim about the brand or other Courtyard hotels.
Anchorage, Alaska · Other
Figures encountered in quiet corridors and restrooms give Anchorage’s Dimond Center its ghost reputation. Paranormal directories link those sightings to a story about disturbed graves. That proposed origin has not been independently established and is not presented as Indigenous history; the supported subject is the mall’s localized apparition lore.
Ketchikan, Alaska · Historic house
Dolly’s House on Ketchikan’s Creek Street has stories of unusual shadows and sounds inside. Alaska Public Media reported the accounts through local ghost-tour guide Libby Klees in 2017, making the source of the claim identifiable without treating the phenomena as established fact. The house’s preserved association with Dolly Arthur gives it a distinct historical identity, but the report does not prove that Dolly is the source of every unexplained noise.
Skagway, Alaska · Theater
Skagway’s Eagles Hall is associated with friendly but unseen company. A contributor to Haunted Places describes abrupt cold spots and the sensation of being watched inside the historic gathering place. The story names no individual spirit; its focus is the lingering sense of an audience or presence in a building devoted to gatherings and performances. This is a specific historic entertainment and gathering place rather than a generic claim that all of Skagway is haunted. A scheduled show or permitted visit is the appropriate context for entering; private backstage exploration is not implied.
Fairbanks, Alaska · Hospital
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital folklore centers on apparent angelic figures around nursery spaces. Accounts collected by Haunted Places describe infant sounds without an obvious source, sudden chills and figures associated with moments when a baby is gravely ill. These are staff-attributed stories about a care setting, presented sensitively without identifying patients or treating paranormal explanations as medical facts.
Talkeetna, Alaska · Hotel
A firsthand blog account by Judy Vars gives the Fairview Inn’s ghost tradition a particularly clear attribution. During an upstairs visit, she reports a sudden chill, hair standing up and camera batteries failing; she says a bartender identified the supposed presence as Frank. This is her interpretation of an experience, not an established cause of those events. The inn’s official site confirms its long-running hospitality role and describes rooms and a bar.
Anchorage, Alaska · Theater
Anchorage’s former Fourth Avenue Theatre has a ghost story about a woman seen in mirrors near the restroom area. The Shadowlands collection supplies that specific motif, while Haunted Places records the theater’s broader haunted reputation. Both traditions concern the old building, which was demolished in 2022; restoration plans repeated in older directories are no longer useful access advice. The story survives as part of the theater’s cultural memory.
Gakona, Alaska · Hotel
At Gakona Lodge and Trading Post, accounts describe footsteps without a visible walker, unexplained voices and the smell of tobacco when nobody seems to be smoking. Haunted Places preserves those sensory details without naming the supposed spirit. The tradition belongs to the historic lodge property as a whole rather than to separately counted rooms or outbuildings.