The first librarian

Washington · USA · Haunted site

She died of causes nobody recorded. Staff hear her footsteps in the basement after hours, and some people went and looked her up.

This library at Snohomish, Washington was built in the early 1900s, and the woman reported in it was its first librarian.

She died of unknown causes.

Staff hear her footsteps in the basement after closing, and some have seen her.

What lifts this above the usual is that people went and researched her death, and went further than that.

A librarian is an unusually fitting figure for a building of this kind. The first one in a small town library would have chosen the stock, catalogued it, and known every reader by name, and in the early 1900s she would almost certainly have been the only professional woman most of those readers dealt with.

Snohomish was a river and logging town and the library was one of its first public institutions.

The library is open.

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