Entry No. 29 — the Anchorage file — filed under: poltergeist

Hotel Captain Cook - Haunted Women's Restroom

This downtown hotel carries one of Anchorage's most specific ghost legends: a woman who died by suicide in a second-floor women's-restroom stall in 1972, blamed for banging stall doors and flickering lights. The story goes that staff eventually bolted the stall shut.

The move: Have a drink up at the Crow's Nest for the city-and-inlet view, then dare each other to go find the bolted-shut stall on the second floor and report back.

📍 Before you go Despite retellings that put it upstairs, the local ghost-tour operator and firsthand accounts place the restroom on the lower level of Tower Two — head down from the main lobby, and the bolted last stall on the left is the tell. It is a working restroom in a working luxury hotel, so go quietly, in ones and twos, and remember it is the women's room. If you would rather have an escort, Anchorage's downtown ghost tours run on a summer pattern (roughly June into early September, most evenings) and include the hotel. The Crow's Nest sits twenty floors up atop Tower Three for the before-or-after drink, and the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail is a short walk away.

• 📍 Downtown Anchorage
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 939 W 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3

last checked: 2026-06-09