GILMORE HOTEL
Hotel — 326 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/gilmore-hotel-ketchikan-alaska/

Historic downtown lodging with multiple reported ghost-story variants.

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.

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.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Media reported] apparition: 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.
  source: AK: The mystery behind Ketchikan ghost tours (https://alaskapublic.org/news/2017-10-13/ak-the-mystery-behind-ketchikan-ghost-tours)
· [Media reported] voices: 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.
  source: Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history (https://www.krbd.org/2026/07/08/walking-tour-highlights-ketchikans-paranormal-history/)

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Walking tour highlights Ketchikan’s paranormal history — KRBD
  https://www.krbd.org/2026/07/08/walking-tour-highlights-ketchikans-paranormal-history/
· AK: The mystery behind Ketchikan ghost tours — Alaska Public Media / KRBD
  https://alaskapublic.org/news/2017-10-13/ak-the-mystery-behind-ketchikan-ghost-tours
· Gilmore Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham — Wyndham Hotels
  https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/trademark/ketchikan-alaska/gilmore-hotel-trademark-collection/overview

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