The Sacramento Room, Central Library

California · USA · Haunted site

Librarians on the second floor hear Mylar rustling in the California section, as though someone is shelving. Books vanish from the shelf and then come.

The Sacramento Room is on the second floor of the Central Library in Sacramento, California, and what is reported there is entirely in keeping with the setting.

Staff describe the sense that somebody is at the back of the room in the California section. What they hear is the rustle of Mylar, the protective covering on the books, and it sounds like someone shelving or pulling volumes out. There are also sounds from the copy room when nobody is in it.

The recurring incident is the one that librarians find hardest to dismiss, because it is a failure of a system built to be reliable. A member of staff looks for a book and it is not on the shelf. A second member of staff looks, and it is not there. A third looks, and it is. They have had as many as four people searching for a single volume before it turns up exactly where it was supposed to be.

This is a special collections room where the location of every item is documented. That is precisely why the staff notice.

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Hvor ligger The Sacramento Room, Central Library?

The Sacramento Room, Central Library ligger i California, USA.