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Albertville, Alabama
Albertville Public Library carries a reputation among staff for a scattering of small, unexplained happenings. Workers say the elevator…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Amelia Gayle Gorgas, widow of the Confederate ordnance chief and later university president Josiah Gorgas, became the University of…
Glendale, California
Leslie C. Brand — the man usually called the father of modern Glendale — built El Miradero between 1903 and 1904 at the foot of the Verdugo…
Gainesville, Georgia
This Gainesville library opened on North Main Street in 1969, on a site local legend ties to an earlier hotel where a murder may have taken…
Belchertown, Massachusetts
The Clapp Memorial Library was endowed by merchant John Francis Clapp and dedicated in 1887. A night custodian told Ghost Hunters in 2008…
Newtown, Connecticut
Newtown's public library opened in 1932, a posthumous gift from Mary Elizabeth Hawley, who named it for her grandfather, a Newtown…
Crete, Nebraska
Doane University in Crete is Nebraska's oldest college and has long told ghost stories about its old library. Nebraska haunted-places lists…
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden's library began with eight young women who formed a study club in 1897 and set out to give the city a reading room. After several…
Harvey, North Dakota
The Harvey Public Library was built on the site of the home of Sophia Eberlein, who in 1931 was murdered by her second husband in her…
Homewood, Alabama
Before it was the Homewood Public Library, the building on Oxmoor Road was the Homewood Church of Christ. The city bought it in 1984 and…
Hutchinson, Kansas
The Hutchinson Public Library opened in 1901 and moved into its present building at 901 N. Main in 1951. Its best-known story concerns Ida…
Madison, Indiana
The library moved into the former Powell residence in 1930; the Madison Library Society itself dates back to 1818. A young man who lived in…
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
This Italianate mansion at 1305 Greensboro Avenue was built before the Civil War for Robert Jemison Jr. Victor Hugh Friedman later gave the…
Houston, Texas
The Julia Ideson Building, completed in 1926 as Houston's central library and named for longtime librarian Julia Ideson, is a Spanish…
Godfrey, Illinois
Lewis and Clark Community College sits on the former grounds of Monticello College, founded in 1835 as Monticello Seminary — the oldest…
Birmingham, Alabama
This building served as Birmingham's central public library from 1927 to 1985, and today it houses the library system's archives, special…
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
The Millicent Library in Fairhaven was given to the town in 1893 by the financier Henry H. Rogers in memory of his daughter Millicent, who…
Bartow, Florida
Completed in 1909 and now home to the Polk County Historical Museum, the old courthouse stands on the same plot where, in 1886, the bodies…
Oxford, Massachusetts
The Oxford Free Public Library on Main Street in Oxford is a small-town library with a local reputation for odd activity. Reports passed…
West Palm Beach, Florida
The university library is said to be haunted by a former janitor who worked there for years before mysteriously disappearing without a…
Danvers, Massachusetts
The Peabody Institute Library of Danvers is a public library whose own website keeps a category of paranormal stories among its local…
Green River, Wyoming
The Sweetwater County Library in Green River, a public library built on the site of an old cemetery, is listed by Travel Wyoming among the…
Denver, Colorado
Staff in the Mary Reed Building describe the ghost of Mrs. Dupont still seated in "her" room, the former Dupont Room, a reading room named…
Fort Wayne, Indiana
The University of Saint Francis's campus library, now named the Lee and Jim Vann Library. Students say a student died by suicide here long…