Mangy Moose Saloon (Tonsina)

A man who committed suicide here is thought to haunt this saloon. He has been seen walking through the bar, as well as in Room 18. The ghost of a tall thin man with a black mustache haunts this bar and Room 18 here. Since 1980 both employees and guests have encountered the polite apparition. The lodge was originally an officer’s quarters at Fort Liscomb, but it was hauled from Valdez and set on a new foundation in Tonsina in the 1920s. In 1950 it was run by Bill Ogden, who painted the building pink and operated a bordello and casino there. Some suspect Bill is the ghost of the Mangy Moose because he died there, but others believe the spirit is that of a man who committed suicide in the building many years before