{"id":115,"slug":"beatrice-greene-house-ketchikan-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Beatrice Greene is the '47 — the '20 Creek Street' that's the stilts, the 'last working woman' that's the stayed. The '1954' is the closed — the 'crackdown' that's the moved on, the 'Beatrice' that's the went nowhere. The 'trap doors' is the creek — the 'salmon' that's the spawning, the 'bodies' that's the dumped.","The 'playful' is the ghost — the '20 years' that's the residents, the 'lights' that's the flicked. The '30 brothels' is the heyday — the 'both fish and men' that's the spawned, the 'Ketchikan' that's the wet. Beatrice is the marker — the '2004' that's the plaque, the 'cat-and-mouse' that's the police.","The file keeps Beatrice Greene: the 1947 working, the 1954 refusal, the playful ghost, and the creek's dead.","Beatrice Greene House is the archive's Alaska file — the last woman's stay."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Beatrice Greene House is the archive's Alaska file — the creek's madam.","A house keeps its working — the file's suggestion being that Beatrice's hold is the refused: the '54' that's the closed, the 'ghost' that's the playful, and the 'trap doors' that's the dead."]}],"name":"Beatrice Greene House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Creek Street house with a reported former-resident ghost tradition.","full_desc":"Beatrice Greene House is a historic house in Ketchikan, Alaska. Creek Street house with a reported former-resident ghost tradition. Historic Ketchikan’s survey identifies this circa-1920 house and its association with Beatrice Greene beginning in 1947. Reported lore and claims include: Kovac relays residents’ accounts of hidden objects and lights or television switching on, attributed to Beatrice Greene.","address":"20 Creek Street","city":"Ketchikan","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":55.357145,"lon":-131.674552,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PRIVATE","access_notes":"Reported residence; no public interior access established.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Historic identity supported by preservation survey search excerpt; alleged spirit identity remains folklore. Survey full text needs follow-up.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":82,"type":"OBJECTS_MOVING","description":"Kovac relays residents’ accounts of hidden objects and lights or television switching on, attributed to Beatrice Greene. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. The account appears in 'Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history'. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":"Beatrice Greene","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history","url":"https://www.krbd.org/2026/07/08/walking-tour-highlights-ketchikans-paranormal-history/","publisher":"KRBD","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Historic Ketchikan’s survey identifies this circa-1920 house and its association with Beatrice Greene beginning in 1947. Beatrice Greene House's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Creek Street Historic Survey' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Creek Street Historic Survey","url":"https://www.historicketchikan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Creek-Street-Hist-Survey-compressed.pdf","publisher":"Historic Ketchikan","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"Beatrice Greene","claimed_identity":"Beatrice Greene","verified":null,"summary":"Kovac relays residents’ accounts of hidden objects and lights or television switching on, attributed to Beatrice Greene. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history' carries the account. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Beatrice Greene.","behavior":"Kovac relays residents’ accounts of hidden objects and lights or television switching on, attributed to Beatrice Greene.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history","url":"https://www.krbd.org/2026/07/08/walking-tour-highlights-ketchikans-paranormal-history/","publisher":"KRBD","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Private property; not open to the public. View only from public rights-of-way where legal.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history","url":"https://www.krbd.org/2026/07/08/walking-tour-highlights-ketchikans-paranormal-history/","publisher":"KRBD","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},{"name":"Creek Street Historic Survey","url":"https://www.historicketchikan.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Creek-Street-Hist-Survey-compressed.pdf","publisher":"Historic Ketchikan","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":2}}