Footage could show latest evidence of famous Evansville ghost

EVANSVILLE – The latest imaginable grounds of a celebrated Evansville shade surfaced earlier this month, erstwhile a doorway astatine Willard Library appeared to unfastened and adjacent connected its own.

The room posted information footage of the incidental to its Facebook leafage Friday morning.

Timestamped April 17 astir 5:45 p.m., the video shows a lower-level entranceway adjacent the elevator. No radical are successful frame, and the solid connected the doorway provides a wide presumption of the outside, proving nary 1 is around. The doorway abruptly cracks open. It shuts conscionable arsenic quickly.

The station notes that it happened astir 15 minutes aft unit near for the time and locked – and alarmed – each the doors. The room claims it has footage of employees double-checking the entrances earlier they left.

“Important note: The alarm strategy volition not limb unless each doors are decently latched,” the station reads.

Later that night, arsenic manager George Carter returned to Willard to enactment after-hours, helium received a telephone from the alarm institution that an unfastened doorway had “triggered the system.”

“The manager informed them helium was already on-site and would investigate,” the station reads. “When helium checked the doorway successful question, it was inactive securely locked. Upon reviewing the information footage, this is what helium discovered.”

Although Willard’s station doesn’t notation her by name, commenters were speedy to evoke the Grey Lady: the famed specter that’s supposedly haunted Willard since astatine slightest the precocious 1930s. Unquestionably the astir celebrated poltergeist successful the city’s history, she’s attracted everyone from SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters” to renowned psychic Lorraine Warren, who went connected to depicted by Vera Farmiga successful “The Conjuring” franchise.

The room maintains 24-hour “ghost cams” successful its children’s conception for anyone who wants to drawback her successful action. And implicit the years, patrons and employees alike person reported vaporous taps connected the shoulder; mysterious falling books; chairs shoved distant from desks portion nary 1 is around. Berry Global employees adjacent doorway person adjacent seen the room elevator climbing and falling connected its ain passim the night.

A fewer years ago, 2 Willard staffers were watching surveillance footage erstwhile they spotted a pistillate who appeared to beryllium wearing a costume: a long, grey formal and veil.

“They were benignant of keeping an oculus connected her and she conscionable dissipated into bladed air,” Arrika Taylor, Willard’s big services librarian, told the Courier & Press successful 2021. “Disappeared close successful beforehand of their eyes.”

No veiled specter tin beryllium seen successful the latest footage. Some commenters blasted the wind. But it would person to beryllium a stiff breeze to jostle a latched, locked door.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Evansville Courier & Press: Footage could amusement latest grounds of celebrated Evansville ghost