Kodiak History Museum

The Kodiak History Museum is said to be haunted by Benjamin McIntyre, who lived in the building while working for the Alaska Commercial Company and was shot dead at his dining table on November 1, 1886, in the room that is now the museum's kitchen. The killing went unsolved, though in 1917 a newspaper reported that a man's skeleton had been found outside town with a shotgun whose shells matched those left at the scene. The Erskine family lived in the house for about thirty years from 1911, and a woman who worked for them would not stay in the building after dark, saying McIntyre still walked the halls in the evening. The Russian-American Company built this log magazin, or warehouse, between about 1805 and 1808, making it the oldest standing building in Alaska; it was renamed from the Baranov Museum in 2019.