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Monday, October 2, 2006
Alaska
Gold rush ghost
Location: Skagway, Alaska
If you belive the rumors, the town of Skagway is full of ghost.
In 1896, prospectors struck gold in the Klondike region of Canada's Yukon Territory. The discovery was close to the Canadian border near the Alaskan town of Skagway became know as "the gateway to the gold rush" and grew into a boomtown with an amazing population of 20,000.
Miners hoping to strike it rich left and Seattle, Washington, to travel to Skagway by ship. From there, they went farther north along the difficult trails to Canada's gold country. The treacherous trip ended the lives of many prospectors. Avalanches buried some of them. Some slid on ice passes and fell to their deaths in the valleys below.Still others became deathly ill from the bone-chilling cold. Skagway is the only Alaska boomtown that didn't eventually burn down or become deserted. Many of the original buildings still stand today, and ghost from the gold rush days reportedly lurk around.
Some people say there's a ghostly guest inhabiting room 24 of the oldest hotel in Alaska, the three-story gold-domed Golden North. Dressed in a white wedding gown, the ghost of a woman has been peering from a window awaiting the return of her fance for a hundred years. Unforunately he's not coming back. He died in 1890's on the difficult trek north to hunt of gold. Too frighted to venture out into the wild streets of boomtown Skagway, the young woman hid in room 24. She eventually died of pneumonia.
Most hotel visitors never see the ghost of room 24. But some do. One couple even claimed that a ghost climbed into their bed! Other guests complained that someone walked in and out of the room during the night. Construction workers staying in room 24 once fled the hotel in the middle of the night with no explanation. Had they been scared away by a ghost in a wedding gown.
The red Onion Saloon in skagway is also rumord to be haunted. The downstairs portion is still a saloon. Upstairs areas are used as offices, and are where most of the spooky activity reportedly occurs.
A downstairs bartender was once so frightened by footsteps above her on the secound floor that she called the police. When they arrived, police heard the steps, too. But when they found no one walking around upstairs. One day, an upstairs door which didn't have a lock suddenly refused to open. A few minutes after efforts to open it were halted, the door was inexplicably found standing wide open. A musician, overnight, once woke to see a strange glowing light shape in his room. Other employees have felt sudden cold areas of air and smelled heavy perfume in the saloon, occurrences for which there is no known explanation.
Skagway's Mulvihill House is thought to be haunted by "Mul" of Mulvihill, a man who lived there from 1914 to 1949. In his work as dispatcher for the White pass and Yukon Route Railroad, Mul often used a telegraph. Some people say they hear ghostly tap-tap-tap of an invisible telegraph key in his house.
These are just a few of many buildings in Skagway that are reputedly haunted. Why would ghosts what to haunt this town? Maybe they were attracted to the tragedy and turmoil Skagway once experienced. During its get-rich-quick gold rush days many people arrived in Skagway with high hopes, only to meet terrible fates. Some unlucky newcomers were swindled out of their money. Others starved to death, were shot, or died in the diphteria epidemic. Not to mention all of the prospectors who peroshed on their way to the Klondike.
Skagway is now part of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, and only about a thousand people live there. One of the town's primary industries tourism, and some of the locals dress in fashions popular during the gold rush days. The clip-clop sound of house-dawn buggies can be heard as visitors are taken on sight-seeing trips. Skagway residents wave and smile. But look more closely. You might spy some friendly ghost amoug the living!
Hey guys hopped you read the ghost story that took me two and a half hours to type last night. Well if you didn't I guess it's ok. Hope everyone likes the orange on my post styles. The ghost story would have took only an hour but my boyfriend was iming me. Well not alot to say today I guess I didn't really have any homework over the weekend. This week is going to be fun because we have a feild trip on Wed. and no school on friday why I don't know. Oh me and my boyfriend done have a song well here's some questions k today's avi is right under them
1. Do you have a bf/gf
2. Have they told you they love you?
3. what's your fav song
4. What's the sadest song that you have ever heard
my answers
1. Yes my first boyfriend
2. Yes
3. id do anything
4. My heart will go on song from Titanic
Todays avi
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