Boo writes “Is Willard Library Haunted?
A fascinating, and at least somewhat credible, old legend exists within the ancient walls of Willard Library in Evansville, Ind.:
It’s a living, breathing haunted house.
The first reported sighting happened sixty years ago to a library employee who trekked through the snowy cold for his nightly duty. Since then, countless other employees and patrons have reported seeing the apparition, each giving an eerily similar description. Is the legend true? We’ll leave that for you to decide … =:-o
Willard Library
I used to go to Willard Library when I was a child, and the children’s librarian there used to tell us about the ghost. She was a great storyteller, and very convincing, so I totally believed in the ghost.
These days, I just think that it is a good publicity getter for a nice, but sometimes overlooked, public library. Just FYI, Willard’s strengths are it’s genealogy collection, local history collection, and art books.
Ghosts = Profit
The website is very sophisticated for a
library site and has sound and
Macromedia Flash animation…
they also use banner advertising…
very unusual for a library…
it seems that perhaps whoever was the
driving force behind the website has left
or lost interest…it’s not been updated
recently
and no ghost sitings are posted after April 15,
2003…
Perhaps the addition of a photo of the
person they believe is the Lady in Grey to
a wall in the Children’s Room has
satisfied her and she has departed…?
Certainly a few of the “Proof” images look
convincing…although many look like light
reflections on shelves or tables
or blurs from human movement or camera
vibrations perhaps from trucks
rolling by on the road outside.
In these days of Photoshop…who knows what images are geniune or false?
Besides, can’t imagine how a ghost would
read a book it can’t remove from the shelf
or open…