Haunted things to do in Anchorage
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Anchorage? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Valley of the Moon Park (the old crib-house red-light row), Portage Ghost Town (the town the 1964 quake sank), The Last Blue Whale (a.k.a. the "Whale Drowns Men" statue) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Anchorage they'd never find on their own.
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Valley of the Moon Park (the old crib-house red-light row)
This leafy 22-acre creekside park along Chester Creek was, in November 1916, a row of one-woman 'crib houses'…
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Portage Ghost Town (the town the 1964 quake sank)
Once a busy rail-and-road junction, Portage dropped 8 to 10 feet in under five minutes during the 1964 magnit…
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The Last Blue Whale (a.k.a. the "Whale Drowns Men" statue)
A roughly three-story bronze by Joseph Priniciotti, installed 1973, depicting a whale flipping two whaling bo…
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Nike Site Summit
An abandoned Cold War Nike-Hercules nuclear missile battery at ~3,900 feet in the Chugach, one of the last tw…
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Girdwood Ghost Forest
Around milepost 90 of the Seward Highway, pale columns of long-dead trees stand on the Turnagain Arm mudflats…
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Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery (the unmarked-graves Pioneer Cemetery)
Established in 1915 with the original townsite, this nine-block downtown cemetery holds 15,000-plus graves —…