The Alaskan Hotel and Bar

The Alaskan opened on September 16, 1913, and is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Alaska, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It spent decades as a speakeasy and a brothel, was briefly condemned in the 1970s, and was restored by new owners. Guests and staff report flickering lights, footsteps in empty halls, and a woman in white on the upper floors. Tradition ties her to a resident who turned to sex work after her husband left for the gold fields, and who is said to have been killed on his return, but no record of that death has been found. The third floor, and Room 315 in particular, carries most of the hotel's stories. Nobody has established a cause for any of it.