The Ghost of Scary Mary One of Alaska’s most legendary ghosts, Scary Mary’s tale begins with a Gold Rush expedition. Mary came to the Golden North Hotel in Skagway as a blushing young woman engaged to a prospector named “Klondike Ike.” Flush with hopes for their future, Mary’s fiancé set off to win a fortune in the gold fields…and never returned. Mary waited. And waited. It is said she locked herself in the couple’s room, beset with worries. When the concerned hotelkeepers finally broke down the door, they found her dead, dressed in the wedding dress she was meant to have worn on her wedding day. But Mary hasn’t yet “checked out” of the Golden North Hotel. Since her untimely end, guests have been spooked by the apparition of a pale figure looking out from the hotel’s windows, still on the watch for her lover’s ghostly return from the mountains. Sometimes they feel a pocket of cold air whoosh by in the hallways as a phantom in white brushes by. Even more eerily, the odd patron has awoken to Mary’s ghost poised above their beds – just checking, they say, to see if Ike is in bed with another. That’s enough to make anyone sleep with one eye open.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:54:03 +0000
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