Biloxi Public Library
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.
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Is Biloxi Public Library haunted?
The record holds 1 claim — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed anecdotal. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.'
A claim about books, not a building
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.
The record of claims
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.
Guide explicitly says no corresponding apparition was reported at the library; claim concerns the donor family’s prior experience.
Sources on file
- 01Guide to the Haunted Libraries of the South—MississippiSouthern Spirit Guide · blog · A4
Field notes & open questions
Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.