Haunted addresses on record in Alaska
What Alaska requires
Alaska law places a narrow disclosure duty on real estate licensees: if they know a murder or suicide happened on the property within the past year, they must tell the buyer before an offer is made. There's no broader Alaska statute requiring disclosure of other deaths, natural-cause deaths, or reputed hauntings, and the duty only reaches what the agent actually knew.
Alaska's real estate licensing statute, AS 08.88.615(c), requires a real estate licensee to disclose to a buyer, before the buyer makes or accepts an offer, that a murder or suicide occurred on the property — but only if it happened within one year before the licensee first showed the property to that buyer, and only if the licensee actually knew about it. A licensee who didn't know, or where the death happened more than a year earlier, has no disclosure duty under this statute.
This is narrower than the stigmatized-property statutes some states have: it covers murder and suicide specifically (not deaths from natural causes, accidents, or illness), it's tied to a one-year lookback, and it's framed as a licensee duty rather than a general seller obligation. Alaska's separate residential property disclosure law (AS 34.70, the seller's written disclosure statement) covers physical condition of the property and does not itself add a death- or stigma-specific line item.
We found no Alaska provision requiring disclosure that a property is reputed to be haunted or otherwise psychologically stigmatized with no physical defect — that kind of claim appears to sit outside Alaska's disclosure law entirely, similar to most states.
As in most states, a buyer's direct, specific question generally can't be answered with an outright lie — ordinary misrepresentation and fraud principles can apply even where a law doesn't create an affirmative duty to volunteer the information. We did not find an Alaska-specific statute or court case confirming this for death or stigma questions in particular, so treat it as the general rule rather than a confirmed Alaska carve-out.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in Alaska.
The Alaska record is waiting
No entries filed from Alaska yet. If something happened at an address you know, write it down — you may be the reason the next resident feels less alone at 3 AM.