Haunted Alaska by Ron Wendt

Beware of reading this book alone on a dark night! They are watching us, these ghosts of the North. They cook breakfast, play cards, mine gold, turn on radios, and play the piano. A logger sees a ghostly Model T drive through his truck. The smell of tobacco wafts through a room where no one is smoking. Fresh footprints are found in the snow, but there is no one for miles around. Haunted Alaska is a collection of ghost stories that will make the hair rise on the back of your neck. They tell of miners harassed by ghosts, of reindeer herders who run in fear as one of their own departed comes back in spirit form, and of human voices heard in an empty woods, complete with the smell of a campfire that isn't there.

Ron Wendt was raised on his family's homestead near Fairbanks and his father's mining claims in the Circle gold fields of eastern Alaska. He developed an early interest in Alaska history by exploring the ghost towns and mining camps and talking with old-timers from the gold rush era. He had worked as a gold miner, newspaper, reporter, photographer, college instructor, construction worker, and maintenance man. Wendt's articles and photos appeared in numerous publications. He owned Goldstream Publications of Wasilla, Alaska. Wendt passed away in 2008.