The Alaskan Hotel
The Alaskan Hotel is located in the capital city of Alaska, Juneau. The hotel is housed in one of the oldest buildings in the town, built in 1913 as a three-story, 46-guest room space. The building was built by James and John McCloskey, and entrepreneur Jules B. Caro. Juneau was the center stage for the Alaskan gold rush, and due to this fact, the city had to rise quickly to accommodate all the miners that were coming there. The Alaskan is the longest running hotel in Juneau, serving originally as both a hotel and bordello. Not too long after the hotel opened, in the height of the gold rush, a young married couple was staying there.
The man was a miner, and he told his wife that he would be back after he spent three more weeks in the mountains searching for gold. As three weeks passed, the woman went broke, and in order to not starve, she had to turn to prostitution to survive. When her husband finally came back, he was so enraged about what she had done that he killed his wife in one of the rooms. Room 218 is believed to be haunted by the spirit of this woman, with people claiming to have seen her apparition sitting on the bed, the feeling of being touched, and the sight of her image in the mirrors.
(Source: Cohen, Daniel. Hauntings and Horrors. 2002)
