Present day staff and guests report encountering Alice's ghost on many occasions with her presence most common in Rooms 218 and 219 where staff members claim they are always uncomfortable. Desperate for money, she was forced into prostitution, but within a few weeks her husband did return and, enraged at what she had become, killed her in one of the back rooms. Promising he would return in 3 weeks, he never returned, leading Alice to believe he was dead. One of the spirits is named Alice who local legend states went there during the gold rush with her husband. PHENOMENA : After renovations in 1978, paranormal activity increased. Caro and built the 3-story Alaskan Hotel near the steamship docks there in 1913. The McCloskey brothers, who struck it rich during the gold rush brought in an investor named Jules B. A small tent city named after one of these men was located along the Inner Passage and eventually became the capital of the territory, Juneau. In 2006, the dredge was added to the National Register of Historic Places and was opened to the public.THE PARANORMAL WORLD DATABASE ALASKA ALASKAN HOTEL & BAR (JUNEAU) BACKGROUND : In 1880, just 13 years after the US purchased Alaska from the USSR, two men, Joe Juneau and Richard Harris discovered gold in the Silver Creek Basin and in short order, the Alaskan Gold Rush began. In 1998, the 500 ton dredge was moved overland to its current location at the Chicken Gold Camp. The dredge commenced operations on lower Chicken Creek in September and worked for approximately five months every year thereafter until October 1967, when it produced its final cleanup. The following year it was disassembled, trucked to Chicken, Alaska and reassembled. It was assembled there, and operated until 1958. It was built by the Yuba Manufacturing Company in California, and was shipped to Pedro Creek north of Fairbanks, Alaska in 1938.

Co.), a subsidiary of the United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. 4, also known as the Pedro Dredge and the Chicken Dredge, was originally owned by the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E.

Chatanika gold dredge number 3