Don't be afraid.

Lock the doors.

Turn out the lights and climb into bed.

It's time for hillbilly.

Dead time stories.

Bleak mansions and somber castles usually spring to mind when we think of haunted places.

But ghostly phenomena, whatever the cause, can manifest in crumbling, abandoned buildings as well as well-lit modern offices.

Even libraries.

Haunted libraries seem to fall into two types.

First there is the building with a reputation, where a convenient murder, curse, or other tragedies occurred.

Library staff can then blame the odd noise or the occasional book falling out the shelf or even glitches in the air conditioning on the resident ghost.

No one reports anything too spooky and the children's librarians have a good time with it at Story Hour.

Secondly though, there are libraries where credible, responsible people observe strange human shapes, hear disembodied voices, and witness other classic paranormal phenomena.

Plausible explanations about how the building must be settling ring about as hollow as those mysterious footsteps late at night on the upper floorboards.

The library staff learns to live with its ghost, usually by accepting the paranormal activity

as normal working conditions.

The Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana is so known for its hauntings that it even has its own

ghost cam that you can log on to 24 hours a day.

So just who haunts the Willard Library?

You're about to find out.

Oh, God. Oh Nyevah housed in a grand Victorian Gothic building, the oldest public library building in Indiana,

certainly looks the role of the premier haunted library in all of the United States.

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