Ghost Activity and Moon Phases

I emailed a gentleman from a ghost hunting society and asked him about our library.

He wrote: Ghost activity is always greater two or three days on each side of the new and full moons. In between these lunar cycles ghostly activity seems to drop off. Ghosts feed off of geomagnetic energy to appear in this dimension and the full and new moons are the strongest peaks of geomagnetic energy.  Also during solar storms, the incoming ions provided the energy to appear in our realm.

This made me want to check into what the moon phase was from when Emma's picture was first taken.  I think the photo was taken around Nov. 12, 2011 - right around a full moon. How interesting!

Footsteps....

It isn't the first time.

Our Assistant Director told me that when she is there alone at night, she will hear footsteps on the stairs going up to her work area.  She stops what she is doing, listens and then the sound stops. She told me that it has happened on more than one occasion.

Just about two weeks ago, my co-workers worked late to practice for a puppet play.  The next time we worked together I specifically asked her if she heard anything since they were there after hours. She told me that they did. They were sitting at the bottom of the stairway mentioned by our Assistant Director.  She told me that it sounded as if someone was starting to walk up the stairs, but when they looked up to see who was there the sound stopped.  My co-worker told me that she and the Intern who also heard the noise were a bit freaked and all to ready to go home afterwards.

There aren't any vents or ductwork under those stairs. Just thought I'd mention it.

Time to Go Hunting...

It's been awhile since I've been at the library after hours. Since it's summer, it stays light outside for longer. It's not as much fun ghost hunting when there is daylight.  Also, everyone has been so busy lately. It makes it a challenge to find someone to go with me -- and be serious!  However, I think with some of the recent possible activity, that maybe - just maybe the ghosties miss us too!~

Again... In The Elevator

Busy elevator

Even when empty!

Just when I was thinking that things have been so quiet lately....

Around 5:30-6p.m., there were three of us up at the front desk. There weren't any patrons around the desk at that time.  The elevator had been used since I had arrived at work around 4p.m., but no one had used it immediately prior to this event.

We were standing up front  doing our "desk thing", one of the interns was telling us about his day when the elevator door opened.  No one came out of it.

We all just stood there for a second looking at it. Finally, I said, "Well, they do like to take the elevator you know."  Someone said, "Creepy!" and we went back to our duties.

A Haunted Employee....

Bathroom? Is the employee bathroom haunted now too?  You decided.

I was working on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Along with three other library employees.  While I was on break, I heard the employee toilet flush - three times in a row. I thought to myself, "Uh-oh, someone couldn't get it all down in one flush."  I then went about my duties. 

Later, I was just outside the same bathroom door and the paper towel dispenser activated.  The light was off in there. Nobody was using the bathroom... One of the pages heard it at the same time. We both looked at each other and I said, "There's no one in there."  He replied that the ghost was in the bathroom.  I said, "Well, they want clean hands too I guess."  However, then he told me that when he was near the bathroom he and the other page heard the toilet flush again and again!!!  So then I decided that I wasn't going to use the employee bathroom that day.

Here's the kicker - the paper towel dispenser and the toilet has a motion sensor. So, the paper towel dispenser will only give you the next sheet if motion is detected in front of the "eye-sensor".  The toilet is set up the same way - as soon as you 'finish the paper work' and get up, the toilet will automatically flush. You CAN also flush it with the push of a button, but  I don't know if it can be flushed three times - quickly - in  a row... I think the tank would need to fill up with water by the third flush...