Haunted Fairbanks

Haunted AK History Kennedy AK Studies

Haunted History • Much of Alaska has had a wild past. • I will start a short presentation on the haunted sites of Fairbanks and continue with some stories that are very interesting. • I am doing this for a certain student who always asks questions. Yes, I really do listen……

White Lady of Birch Hill • The most notable ghost of Fairbanks is the White Lady of Birch Hill Cemetery. • She has been sighted since the 1930’s • She always appears in a 1900’s dress and fancy hat.

Bartlett Hall • The second floor of Bartlett hall tends to be haunted. • Reportedly things go missing and you can hear footsteps. • It is rumored to be in the location of a student who committed suicide in the dorms. • It is also the floor where a student was mysteriously murdered in the 1990s.

Skyline Ranch • This used to be a gambling hall. The deceased owner seems to show up every once in a while. • He seems to shuffle throughout the property. • He hasn’t returned recently when he was asked to leave.

Gold Dredge No. 8 • A man was murdered in the 1970’s and was found floating in the reclamation pit. • The story was that he had an affair on his young wife and her brothers deep-sixed him into the reclamation pit where he resurfaced more than 5 years later. • Since that time voices have been heard.Doors open and close and people hear talking late at night. Is it haunted? Go ahead you stay there all night!

Mile 6-8 CHSR • Lights that look like headlights that follow people driving late at night. • The lights then careen away at the last second before they seem to impact people. • They are less like UFOs and more like a phantom driver.

Captain Bartlett Inn • Some of the rooms have orbs that move through the halls. • Supposedly glasses sometimes move around the bar. • The Anchorage Supernatural group investigated this haunting with inconclusive findings.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital • Angels appear in the and backrooms hallways when a baby dies in the nursery. • Babies can be heard in the room when no one is there. • The temperatures also tend to drop to below 60F when it happens.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital • There are also many stories about a haunted hallway that the lights turn off and you hear whisperings. • The lights only go off during certain days.

Northern Lights Hotel • Northern Lights Hotel - This is the hotel that is across from the courthouse. • The third floor of this building a little girl died. After that the hotel closed off that part of the building. The front desk has reported getting phone calls form the third floor room #303, a little girl saying she's looking for her mother and then hanging up. No one was in the third floor. • The Fifth floor is also haunted with a strange man with glasses who looks out of the curtains. • The police are often called to find people and there is nobody present.

Key Bank Building • This was once a hospital during the 1918 Flu epidemic and reportedly late at night the walls look to bleed blood and that you can also listen to voices and crying. • The Catholic church the Chena from the Key Bank building also has this same strange quality.

The Phantom Cab • The Phantom Cab license 109 has appeared throughout Fairbanks. • The driver will go up to your house and pound on your door asking you to help him with his family. When you refuse him he will reluctantly leave. However, when you ask the cab company they will inform you that the cab doesn’t exist.

The TCC Building • Supposedly several of the ladies of the night lived and died in cabins located near the banks of the Chena location where the present building now stands. • Late at night strange things happen on the fifth floor. People feel that things follow them around all night long. Others reported that elevators appeared to operate and open on their own. People let their fear take over with the fifth floor.

Dead Man’s Slough and the PAC • Many people believe that the first person killed in Fairbanks was found floating facedown in the slough that is located where the present day WVHS is situated. To this day, many believe that the ghost of this murdered miner appears as a white form floating above the audience watching the plays and concerts that are held there.

The Disappeared Cat • There was once a Drama teacher at West Valley who had a kitten who she brought with her to a overnight lockin in the Dewilde Theatre. • The kitten disappeared for most of the night and could not be found. Then early the next morning the kitten was found and it appeared to be playing with someone who could not be seen. • Sometimes students in DeWilde will see the rigging move and bounce on their own. So, if you get detention you better be good……

The Westmark Hotel • The present location of the Westmark hotel used to be a house that was plagued by the ghost of some mischievous miners. Supposedly things would move on their own and other things would be thrown all over. Now the ghosts only seem to bother the cooks in the restaurant.

Ryan Middle School • The mat room at Ryan Middle school is said to be haunted by a homeless student who died alone there during a Christmas break. Sometimes the wrestling coaches or wrestlers will see the student who appears lost and talks but does not seem to actually say anything.

Porky the ghost • There is another haunting that is about 1 block from WVHS. The old owner was a UDT from WWII. • He loved pies. One night he actually put a pumpkin pie in the oven and cooked it until it was noticed. • He also turned the lights on and off.

Lathrop Street Apartments • The Lathrop Street Apartments number 205 has a very angry drunken ghost who will appear with the smell of alcohol. • This apartment is seldom opened.