{"id":1479,"slug":"biloxi-public-library-biloxi-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Biloxi Public Library on Howard Avenue earned its dossier not for a haunting of the building but for a haunting of a donation. In 2014 a man dropped off a box of old books — mostly mid-nineteenth-century volumes — then contacted the library shortly after to tell them he and his family believed a spirit came with the collection.","His account, relayed by the library's director to the Sun Herald and retold by WXXV, held together over decades: his wife had taken the books from a house on Highway 90 at a party in the 1960s, and in every house the couple lived in afterward, the family would wake to a woman with long dark hair in a gauze-like dress, hovering — gone the moment she was seen. After the marriage ended, the donor's verdict was simple: 'We concluded as a family that it has to be the books.'"]},{"heading":"A claim about books, not a building","paragraphs":["The file's conflict note is the entry's precision: no corresponding apparition was ever reported at the library itself; the claim concerns the donor family's prior experience. The books remain in the collection — the library has displayed them at Halloween — and no hovering woman has approached a patron.","Filed as a haunted-object anecdote, the record is really a portrait of how folklore transfers: a marriage's worth of unexplained nights, boxed up and handed to a public institution."]}],"name":"Biloxi Public Library","aliases":[],"type":"LIBRARY","type_label":"Library","cats":["HAUNTED_OBJECT_FOLKLORE"],"groups":["institutions"],"desc":"Library in Biloxi; research record.","full_desc":"A library in Biloxi, Mississippi, Biloxi Public Library is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Library in Biloxi; research record. The archive files it under haunted-object folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":"580 Howard Avenue","city":"Biloxi","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.426663,"lon":-88.935762,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":707,"type":"HAUNTED_OBJECT","description":"The guide recounts a donor’s claim of a spirit attached to books donated in 2014. The reports at Biloxi Public Library are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. 'Guide to the Haunted Libraries of the South—Mississippi' carries the account. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":"Guide explicitly says no corresponding apparition was reported at the library; claim concerns the donor family’s prior experience.","source":{"name":"Guide to the Haunted Libraries of the South—Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/guide-to-the-haunted-libraries-of-the-south-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Guide to the Haunted Libraries of the South—Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/guide-to-the-haunted-libraries-of-the-south-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}