{"id":240,"slug":"hutchinson-public-library-hutchinson-kansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The library is the staffed — the 'Ida Day' that's the ghost's name, the '40 years' that's the service's span. The 'first day' is the killed — the 'car accident' that's the death's form, the 'never arrived' that's the job's end. The 'basement' is the kept — the 'EMF' that's the field's name, the 'footsteps' that's the sound's form.","The 'tea at 3' is the ritual — the 'proper' that's the librarian's way, the 'difficult' that's the colleague's view. The 'catalog' is the built — the 'classification' that's the system's name, the 'WWI books' that's the outreach's form. The library is the kept — the 'unfinished business' that's the ghost's cause, the 'watches' that's the vigil's form.","The file keeps the library: the staffed basement, the killed first day, the ritual tea, and the kept watch.","Hutchinson Library is the archive's Kansas file — the librarian who came back to work."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hutchinson Library is the archive's Kansas file — the employee who never left.","A library keeps its catalog — the file's suggestion being that the haunt's hold is the dutiful: the 'Ida' that's the librarian's name, the 'basement' that's the office's site, and the 'unfinished' that's the ghost's reason."]}],"name":"Hutchinson Public Library","aliases":[],"type":"LIBRARY","type_label":"Library","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Library associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Hutchinson Public Library is a library in Hutchinson, Kansas. Library associated with documented cultural history. Its signature presence is Ida Day Holzapfel — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Hutchinson","county":null,"state":"Kansas","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.064237,"lon":-97.908629,"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. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":187,"type":"FOOTSTEPS","description":"Accounts identify a former librarian with cold spots and footsteps. The figure answers to Ida Day Holzapfel in the retellings. The reports at Hutchinson Public Library are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 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As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Haunted Kansas Road Trip: 13 Spooky Locations to Make Your Blood Run Cold","url":"https://www.travelks.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-kansas-road-trip-13-spooky-locations-to-make-your-blood-run-cold/","publisher":"Kansas Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Ida Day Holzapfel","claimed_identity":"Ida Day Holzapfel","verified":null,"summary":"Accounts identify a former librarian with cold spots and footsteps. Ida Day Holzapfel is what the reports name it. The reports at Hutchinson Public Library are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Kansas Road Trip: 13 Spooky Locations to Make…'. 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