{"id":41,"slug":"silverbow-inn-juneau-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The building reads 'Messerschmidt 1914' over the canopy, and the name is the file's spine. Gustav Messerschmidt — Gus — was a German-born baker trained in San Francisco who reached Juneau in November 1898, when the gold-rush town was still young. He named his business the San Francisco Bakery, moved it to Second Street, and in 1914 had the front building shifted so he could raise the concrete structure the city registers today as the Messerschmidt Building — a bakery below, a family home above.","Gus and Gertrude raised nine children over the ovens. He died in 1938; the family baked on, renaming the business Purity Bakery in the 1940s and running it until 1980 — a span the inn calls the longest continuous bakery operation in Alaska. In 1997 Ken Alper and Jill Ramiel turned the ground floor into the Silverbow Bagel Bakery, and the stitched-together complex — four buildings grown into one — settled into its present life as the Silverbow Inn."]},{"heading":"The claim on file","paragraphs":["One haunting report is attached, carried by a directory listing rather than any investigation: Gus himself is said to linger in the bakery, a friendly presence most often noted in the mornings — the hours a baker keeps. The dossier files it as anecdote, not finding, and its research notes warn that the inn's website could not be opened for verification and that the historical person should be confirmed separately; the Juneau historic-name register and local journalism supply the biography above. The ghost, if he is anything, is the building's oldest habit persisting on schedule."]}],"name":"Silverbow Inn","aliases":["Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING_LEGEND"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Juneau inn with a bakery ghost narrative.","full_desc":"A hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Silverbow Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Juneau inn with a bakery ghost narrative. HauntHunt files it with haunting legends. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Gus Messerschmidt. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"120 2nd St","city":"Juneau","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":58.3012,"lon":-134.409,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"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":"Official website open failed; directory identity/coordinates only. Verify historical person separately.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":44.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.3,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":31,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The directory attributes a bakery presence to Gus Messerschmidt. The Juneau hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The report is preserved in sources like 'Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":"Gus Messerschmidt","where":"Bakery","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.3,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast","url":"https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/silverbow-inn-bed-and-breakfast/","publisher":"HauntedPlaces.org","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"Gus Messerschmidt","claimed_identity":"Gus Messerschmidt","verified":null,"summary":"The directory attributes a bakery presence to Gus Messerschmidt. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The report is preserved in sources like 'Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Gus Messerschmidt.","behavior":"The directory attributes a bakery presence to Gus Messerschmidt.","area":"Bakery","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast","url":"https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/silverbow-inn-bed-and-breakfast/","publisher":"HauntedPlaces.org","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","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":"Silverbow Inn Bed and Breakfast","url":"https://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/silverbow-inn-bed-and-breakfast/","publisher":"HauntedPlaces.org","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":1}}