Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted
Sep 22, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted, Jack investigates the Alaskan Hotel in Juneau, a century-old hotel with a violent history and decades of ghost stories. He examines the disturbing…
Jack OsbourneHost
Joshua AdamsGuestKatrinaGuest
A century-old hotel, a violent history, a room where a terrified man had once locked himself inside and gone through the third story window.
The kind of place where there are enough deaths, legends, and strange stories to explain why people called it haunted.
Charlie.
Then
to summon things, and he believed they had invited something into that basement that never left.
What if whatever was down there had never been human? Juneau exists because people came looking for something buried in the earth.
Gold was discovered in the area in 1880, and the mining camp that grew around it became a rough frontier town squeezed between mountains and water.
It was built by brothers James and John McCloskey, miners who had made money in the gold fields, along with entrepreneur Jules Caro.
The hotel was meant to be impressive, ornate woodwork, bay windows, a proper bar, a place that announced Juneau was becoming a real city.
The Alaskans sat in a district shaped by minors, money, alcohol, sex, and people passing through with very little reason to explain where they'd been.
According to the hotel's own history, it operated as a brothel during two different periods.
It survived Alaska's early prohibition years, changing owners, changing eras, and more than a century of guests.
And somewhere along the way, it developed a reputation for guests who never checked out.
A century-old hotel, a violent history, a room where a terrified man had once locked himself inside and gone through the third story window.
The kind of place where there are enough deaths, legends, and strange stories to explain why people called it haunted.
Charlie.
Then
to summon things, and he believed they had invited something into that basement that never left.
What if whatever was down there had never been human? Juneau exists because people came looking for something buried in the earth.
Gold was discovered in the area in 1880, and the mining camp that grew around it became a rough frontier town squeezed between mountains and water.
It was built by brothers James and John McCloskey, miners who had made money in the gold fields, along with entrepreneur Jules Caro.
The hotel was meant to be impressive, ornate woodwork, bay windows, a proper bar, a place that announced Juneau was becoming a real city.
The Alaskans sat in a district shaped by minors, money, alcohol, sex, and people passing through with very little reason to explain where they'd been.
According to the hotel's own history, it operated as a brothel during two different periods.
It survived Alaska's early prohibition years, changing owners, changing eras, and more than a century of guests.
And somewhere along the way, it developed a reputation for guests who never checked out.
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