THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Staff and visitors at Rochester Public Library have reported unexplained footsteps, shadow figures, and eerie noises among the stacks. Paranormal stories have circulated about the historic building for years.
Rochester Public Library, according to witnesses, has spooks in its stacks. Rumor has it that it’s haunted by a young woman who drowned when she fell in to an aqueduct (her body was wedged into a tunnel under the library) and by a former librarian named Frank, who had a heart attack and died on the job. Witnesses have reported unexplained noises, moans, footsteps, shadowy figures and heads peeking out from the stacks. When security cameras caught a heavy door opening and closing with no one around, they called in TV’s Ghost Hunters. The library was featured in an episode.