The story
The Historic Anchorage Hotel in downtown Anchorage traces its name to 1916, when the original hotel rose over the tent city of early Anchorage; the surviving 1936 annex, restored in the late 1980s, is today the only hotel in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places, hosting guests from Will Rogers to Herbert Hoover in its heyday. Its haunted reputation is the best known in Alaska. The most repeated story concerns Jack Sturgus, Anchorage's first chief of police, who was shot near the hotel in 1921 in a case never solved and who is said in local lore to return; guests and staff also describe the figure of a young girl on the second floor, televisions and taps in certain rooms turning on by themselves, and a bride of local legend said to wander the halls. The hotel keeps a guest log of reported experiences. These accounts should be presented as guest reports and folklore rather than proven phenomena, and the real unsolved killing treated with respect. Current room and booking details should be confirmed from the official site before publishing.