What Do You See?

I don't want to influence your thinking, so I won't tell you too much of what/where we are seeing our Little Ghostie.

However, she is in the windows.  I'm a little disappointed as to how the photos appear because they are so small.  Fortunately, the librarian that snapped the photos also gave us an enlarged cropped area for two of them.

Tell me what you see.

Nov. 2011 Window Photos

First Original photo:

cropped area of first photo:

Second Original photo:

cropped area of second photo:

Third original photo:

Fourth original photo:

The Land Has a History

A history of children and illness.  Many children and the school Master.

Illness carried thru the drinking water and a few other possibilities.

Dozens and dozens of children that were on this site of land over 100 years ago, became deathly ill and died.  Some parents losing their entire brood.

At one point the city closed down the school because of the sheer number of illnesses.

Heartbreaking.

Are you the only one Little Ghostie, or are your school chums with you?

What Child Doesn't Like To....

...play with the elevator buttons?

Our elevator will run on it's own late at night.  This has been witnessed by all of us.  The most compelling was by our Assistant Director. She was there, more than an hour after closing time when the elevator came back upstairs, opened up and went back down.

Often times it will open up downstairs -- after sitting idle for a long time. The door will open and upstairs it will go... opening it's door and then coming back down again.

What child doesn't want to push the elevator buttons?

Children Crying

She swore she heard a child crying, so she went back into the library to find the child.

She spoke out loud saying that the library was now closed and it was time to go home.

No one answered. The crying stopped. A child was not found.

Why are you crying little Ghostie?

Many a Strange Goings-On

Every Library is supposedly haunted.

Are they all really?

Is ours?

We aren't really sure.

What we do know is that we trust one another; therefore we trust that our experiences are true.

Everything from children laughing or crying to them reading a book.  It happens at our library.

Children Running

Non-Fiction Section

First we heard children running around upstairs. It was after hours, so we had to go back upstairs and find the kids. Tell them that the Library is now closed and they have to leave.

My co-workers looked all over, but they never found any children.

What was it they heard?

A Librarian Explains

From an email from Nov. 14, 2011 - one of the librarians involved explained how she felt after going back in.  I edited only to take out names.

You know, for years, many of us have had unexplained experiences and laughed them off. We have, as you know, joked about our ghost. But, the experience that we had on Saturday night was really something new. It was very distinct. It happened to both of us. We both heard the same things.

That was hard to shake. At the time we were both convinced that there was someone in the library. We though that someone had snuck back into the janitorial area and hid out until we closed/left.

That idea is what scared us. We kept expecting someone to emerge from that door.   After going back in, to find nothing and no one in there... that was truly upsetting; and left me a bit shaken. Not truly scared.

Now, I believe that maybe, just maybe, something is trying to let us know he/she is still with us. I don't think she means any harm. But, why is she stuck here...

I want to take more photos and see if she appears again. Hmmm... maybe after hours we should just snap off several pics and see what happens...