{"id":29989,"date":"2016-04-07T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=29989"},"modified":"2016-04-07T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:21:43","slug":"tales-from-the-rare-books-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2016\/04\/tales-from-the-rare-books-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Rare Books Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: \u00a0Sydney Vollmer<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ghost\"<\/a>What\u2019s more chilling than a good book? Perhaps the ghost that guards them. It\u2019s been awhile since my encounter\u2026but I decided that the world needed to know about our much rumored ghost.<\/p>\n

Whether it is a he or she, we cannot say. For the sake of time and space, let\u2019s call it a \u201che.\u201d He resides in our rare books room here in the Archives & Rare Books Library in Blegen\u2014one level above the library space that is open to the public. Some background on the rare books room:\u00a0 it\u2019s cold (necessary for preservation), it\u2019s dark, (again, necessary), and it\u2019s spooky (necessary for \"Ghost<\/a>preservation?).\u00a0 When you get up the stairs and open the massively heavy door, all the lights are off. Each individual row of book shelves has its own light. Last year, one didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve said, the rare books room is always a little spooky. Call me superstitious or whatever you would like, but I always feel like the souls of the authors are there\u2014within their books and around them, making sure their works are cared for properly. \u00a0Any who\u2026 I switch on the light of a bookshelf in the back right corner\u2014don\u2019t ask me why, but that is the creepiest part of the space\u2014and only \"possibly\"<\/a>one of the lights comes on. Big deal. Lights go out all the time. I continue looking for a volume and I feel this cold wind at the back of my neck. Keep in mind that I\u2019m alone up there. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see a black shadow pass by my left side. Did I psych myself out, or did I actually see a ghost?<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t been back since that incident. Then again, we fixed the lights. Maybe it was all timing. Maybe it was all made up. In any case, the mystery of our ghost(s) remains. My money is on something supernatural going on upstairs.<\/p>\n

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