LIBERTY MEMORIAL BUILDING
Library — 604 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, North Dakota
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/liberty-memorial-building-bismarck-north-dakota/

Library associated with documented cultural history.

Liberty Memorial Building is a library in Bismarck, North Dakota. Library associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Stack Monster. 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. The site is open to visitors.

The Liberty Memorial Building in Bismarck is home to the Stack Monster — the file's entire register being a library/archives tradition: workers reporting voices, shadows, and footsteps in the stacks of the state building that houses North Dakota's memory.
The Stack Monster is the file's whole legend — an archive's ghost in a literal archive, the state's stored records reportedly keeping a resident that the people who tend them keep hearing.

VOICES IN THE STACKS
The workers' reports are the file's evidence — voices, shadows, and footsteps among the stacks, the building's holdings being the dead's papers and the building's ghost being reportedly one of them.
The Stack Monster's name is the file's signature — a state archive's haunting given the institutional name it earned, the tradition being the workers' own folklore about their own building.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Liberty Memorial is the archive's archive file — a state records building with a Stack Monster, the people who keep the state's memory reporting a resident among it. The workers' accounts are the record; the monster is the stacks' lore.
A building that holds the state's dead papers keeps a ghost — the file's suggestion being that the stacks' resident is one of the records that never got filed.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] shadow figure: Workers reportedly encountered voices, shadows and footsteps associated with the Stack Monster tradition. The account has been recorded since Documented in this Dakota Datebook segment dated 2003-10-31; no claim of earliest origin.. The site in Bismarck, North Dakota gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Ghost Story'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Ghost Story (https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/dakota-datebook-archive/2022-04-25/ghost-story)

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Ghost Story — Prairie Public
  https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/dakota-datebook-archive/2022-04-25/ghost-story
· General Information — North Dakota State Library
  https://www.library.nd.gov/generalinfo
· Renovations — North Dakota State Library
  https://www.library.nd.gov/renovations

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