{"id":114,"slug":"gilmore-hotel-ketchikan-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Gilmore is the proof — the 'fireproof concrete' that's the '26 lesson, the 'Front Street burned' that's the cause learned. The 'Pat Gilmore' is the built — the 'tailor mayor judge' that's the roles held, the 'best dressed' that's the town's dandy. The 'top hat sits' is the kept — the 'Room 208' that's the silent guest, the 'chandelier sways' that's the no-wind moved.","The 'three generations' is the ran — the '50 years' that's the family's run, the 'restored '89' that's the register's care. The 'Annabelle's' is the housed — the 'chowder keg' that's the 20s themed, the 'ghosts served' that's the bar's lore. The Gilmore is the stood — the 'solid rock' that's the foundation's difference, the 'pilings not' that's the tideland's skip.","The file keeps the Gilmore: the fireproof build, the mayor's hotel, the top hat's room, and the rock foundation.","The Gilmore is the archive's Alaska file — the concrete hotel built after the fire."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Gilmore is the archive's Alaska file — the fireproof hotel a tailor-mayor built.","A hotel keeps its lesson — the file's suggestion being that the Gilmore's hold is the learned: the 'concrete' that's the fire's answer, the 'top hat' that's the guest kept, and the 'rock not pilings' that's the foundation's stand."]}],"name":"Gilmore Hotel","aliases":["Gilmore Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING_CLAIM"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic downtown lodging with multiple reported ghost-story variants.","full_desc":"Gilmore Hotel is a hotel in Ketchikan, Alaska. Historic downtown lodging with multiple reported ghost-story variants. The archive files it under haunting claims. The dossier holds 2 reported claims — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. It still takes guests. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"326 Front Street","city":"Ketchikan","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":"99901","region":"West","lat":55.357145,"lon":-131.674552,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Commercial hotel; guest-room access requires authorization.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/trademark/ketchikan-alaska/gilmore-hotel-trademark-collection/overview","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Narrators report different phenomena; retain both without inventing a shared entity or treating uncertain room number as verified.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":80,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Guide Kelli Klees describes alleged appearances of a man in a top hat and a seated woman. Reported guest rooms; room 208 mentioned tentatively is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. Gilmore Hotel, a hotel in Ketchikan, Alaska, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Media accounts carried the story further than the evidence ever did. 'AK: The mystery behind Ketchikan ghost tours' carries the account. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":"Reported guest rooms; room 208 mentioned tentatively","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"AK: The mystery behind Ketchikan ghost tours","url":"https://alaskapublic.org/news/2017-10-13/ak-the-mystery-behind-ketchikan-ghost-tours","publisher":"Alaska Public Media / KRBD","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":81,"type":"VOICES","description":"A 2026 tour report relays guide Joe Kovac’s story of furniture speaking to guests. A hotel in Ketchikan, Alaska with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Media accounts carried the story further than the evidence ever did. The sounds are the site's most consistent claim — the one detail witnesses agree on.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"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":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Annabelle’s restaurant/room service: May 15–September 30, 7 a.m.–10 p.m.; October 1–May 14, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. These are dining hours, not hotel access hours.","reservation_requirement":"Hotel offers room reservations.","accessibility":"Official hotel page states there is no elevator.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Gilmore Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham","url":"https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/trademark/ketchikan-alaska/gilmore-hotel-trademark-collection/overview","publisher":"Wyndham Hotels","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","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":"AK: The mystery behind Ketchikan ghost tours","url":"https://alaskapublic.org/news/2017-10-13/ak-the-mystery-behind-ketchikan-ghost-tours","publisher":"Alaska Public Media / KRBD","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},{"name":"Gilmore Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham","url":"https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/trademark/ketchikan-alaska/gilmore-hotel-trademark-collection/overview","publisher":"Wyndham Hotels","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}