* Mr. Jackson, a night watchman
there for over 15 years, often heard these entities, screaming on occasion,
making the slamming sound of an already locked door, making the dropping
sound of books hitting the floor in the library, (none were ever found
on the floor), and has witnessed the manually operated elevator go up
and down by itself to the1st, 2nd and 3rd floor, perhaps delivering
ghosts going about their perceived business.
* One evening, Jackson heard the
tinkling sound of a window breaking on the second floor. When he went
up there to clean up the broken glass, he found nothing amiss.
* Another evening, while Mr. Jackson
sat at the reception desk on the first floor, his felt the pressure
of a cold hand on his shoulder. He swung around in his chair to find
no one there, who was living anyway.
* Another evening, a fierce wind
seemed to roar with a vengeance throughout the building. Thinking that
this wind came from outside he went out to check on the ancient trees,
thinking that they may loose a branch or two. However, there was no
wind outside. Going back inside, the wind had stopped suddenly, and
what was described as a "strange calm," had enveloped the
place. He said, "I knew it was a haint."
* Mr. Raymond Beck, who was the
curator of the building and a history museum specialist, back in the
Spring of 1981, decided one night to stay late, and work on a restoration
project in the library, which was on the third floor. With the lights
on, and the radio softly playing, he worked at his desk. Sometime between
10:00 and 12:00, he got up to put some books away on the shelf. He was
stopped short, when he suddenly felt a presence silently looking over
his shoulder. When he turned around, no one seen was there, but he still
felt an uncomfortable presence in the room with him. He closed up the
library and left quickly.
* Mr. Beck's boss, Administrator
Sam Townsend Sr., about 5 months later, shared with Beck that he too
had felt a strong presence standing behind him, looking over his shoulder,
while working in the library.
* In 1976, while preparing the
paperwork needed to reopen the newly renovated Capitol building, Townsend,
while sitting in the governor's suite by the South entrance, heard keys
jingling in the North entrance door, the sound of the door opening and
shutting, and foot steps coming across the stone floor. Thinking that
it was the then Secretary of State, Thad Eure, whose office was diagonally
across from the governor's suite, by the North door, Townsend came out
to meet him. Much to his surprise, no one was there in Eure's office.
Just then, Townsend heard keys rattling in the South door entrance.
He found that all the doors, except the North door were locked down
securely.
* Townsend's permanent office was
located on the second floor, in the northeast corner of the Senate chamber,
in the Office of the Clerk. He worked in his office three nights a week,
because he could avoid distractions that could plague him during the
day.
