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Post by Jessie Desmond on May 1, 2015 9:32:23 GMT -9
This story was printed in Alaska Weekly’ October 20, 1933. Tiekel, located on the Tiekel River and the Richardson HWY, pretty much became a ghost town after a fire raged through the town in 1898. Charlie Romer owned a roadhouse across from the camp that was Tiekel. Other then Charlie, the apparition was seen by five people. Charlie claims to have seen the ghost a grand total of six times. The ghost appears at the top of a hillside, opposite of the roadhouse, and above the site of the ancient stampede camp of Tiekel. It is thought that the ghost is that of an indian woman who had fallen in love with a miner from Black Hills. He had stayed in Tiekel, waiting for the river to freeze over. When it did, he left, promising to come back for the indian girl. She would go up to the hill waiting for his return. One night, she was caught in a blizzard and died. Most old-timers think that she is still waiting.
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