TV star Sue Perkins is in a considerably different setting to when she hung around in a kitchen tent for Bake Off in her new Channel 5 show Lost In Alaska.
Starting tomorrow night (Feb 9), the funny woman spends time with remote tribes and ends up in tears after fishing then kissing her catch as she is upset about being told not to throw them back in the water.
However, since Sue didn’t get a chance to explore the paranormal antics of Alaska, Kim Carr has uncovered some spooky stories about the state the US bought off Russia in 1867…
War the heck is going on?
A bunker to protect troops during WW2, the Buckner Building was left abandoned in 1966 after being mostly destroyed during a 1964 earthquake. It’s said 131 people lost their lives in the quake, which hit 9.2 on the Richter scale. Flashing lights have been reported to have been seen as well as full body apparitions of men in war uniform along with unexplainable voices.
Loopy Loo
Pupils at the University of Alaska’s Anchorage campus have earned life lessons in hauntings after a number of creepy reports. As well as the disabled toilets boasting a spook which slams the door shut from the other side when people try to leave, the auditorium is said to be riddled with paranormal activity. Stage lights have exploded, props have flung themselves around and eerie footsteps are all said to have been experienced.
A cup of creepy
The evil ex-husband of a woman known as Muriel planted a bomb under her car while she was in her office on September 30, 1976. The building is now Snow City Café and is said to have the ghost of the murdered woman turning on and off taps mischievously.
Check this out
The oldest operating hotel in Juneau, the Alaskan Hotel and Bar was opened during the Alaska Gold Rush in 1896. Couple Mike and Bettye Adams have owned the place for more than 40 years and even they admit it’s freaky. Room 315 is said to be the hot spot for the biggest amount of unexplainable activity since 2007 when a navy soldier specifically requested a haunted room. He was found having supposedly jumped out of the window and miraculously survived but the guest in the room below reported hearing glass breaking and blood was splattered over the walls mysteriously.
Stroke of spooky
In 1898 it was a bustling boozer, now The Red Onion also serves up sides of spooks with its drinks and food thanks to its accompanying brothel museum. During the Gold Rush, the venue was commonly frequented by girls working there who had to cope with unwanted pregnancies and there were also deaths. Now it’s said the spirit of a passed on brothel worker called Lydia haunts the place. Her heavy floral perfume can be smelt and she caresses the hair of ladies who visit while playing tricks on blokes.
Quaking in their boots
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Following the end of WW2, the 4th Avenue Theatre opened its doors to host meetings and banquets, despite the exterior looking like a place for performers. The reflection of a female ghost has been spotted in the bathrooms of both the men’s and ladies and is thought to have been a victim of an earthquake which hit Anchorage in 1964 as the venue was used to keep locals in lockdown. It was demolished in 2022.
Splashing spirit
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In 1972 it’s said a young female guest of Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage took her own life in a bathroom. Reports of a ghost dressed in white hanging about the bathroom in the lobby have been chalked up by guests, who said they heard her banging on the stall doors and was responsible for lights flickering on and off.
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