SINCLAIR LIBRARY BUILDING Former Library — Honolulu, Hawaii Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/sinclair-library-building-honolulu-hawaii/ University building with historic restroom and audiovisual-room stories. Sinclair Library building is a former library in Honolulu, Hawaii. University building with historic restroom and audiovisual-room stories. University sources identify conversion of the former library into a student success center; a 2026 notice plans an esports arena for August 2027. Reported lore and claims include: A retold restroom account describes a stall door slamming and paper towels moving without an observed cause. The best-documented incident in the Sinclair Library file begins with a student fleeing a basement restroom. She told the librarian she had heard footsteps approach her stall — and found no one. When she and others went down to investigate, posting a guard at the door, they found the room empty; as they turned to leave, a stall door slammed shut and paper towels jumped from the dispenser. The group left at speed. It is the kind of account university libraries accumulate — but Sinclair's version comes with witnesses, a posted guard, and a paper-towel dispenser, which in the genre counts as corroboration. THE DOCUMENTED RECORD Sinclair Library opened in 1956 — conceived in 1953 to relieve the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's collection, then housed in George Hall — and served generations of students, including as the campus's 24/7 study space from 2006. The mid-century building is old enough to require State Historic Preservation Division review for its renovations. The library era ended on December 20, 2019, when Sinclair's collection moved to Hamilton Library ahead of conversion into the Student Success Center. The basement — the file's center of gravity — has since been rebuilt as offices and meeting space, and the university has announced an esports arena for the building in 2027. The institution's own summary is blunt: 'Sinclair is no more.' The reports disagree. WHAT WITNESSES FILE The restroom incident is the file's centerpiece — footsteps with no walker, a slamming stall, moving paper towels — but it is not alone. The basement audiovisual room generated its own strand: staff reported VCRs switching on and off in the dark, a complaint specific enough to have a decade attached to it. An electrician's inspection found no cause, which is where the record stops and the lore begins. Sinclair's reports sit inside a larger campus file — neighboring Hamilton Library has its own apparition, a figure in a bright pink mu'umu'u, and taped 1998 staff-meeting recollections of bare feet on tile. Mānoa's libraries, in the local accounting, are simply buildings where the night shift reports more than shelving. THE BUILDING'S OWN RECORD Sinclair opened in 1956 — mid-century construction significant enough that its renovations go through state historic review — named for Gregg M. Sinclair, the university president who built up the campus. Its basement held the stacks and the audiovisual collection; its 2006 conversion to 24/7 study space multiplied the number of students in the building at the hours when the reports tend to happen, which the file notes without verdict. The basement has since been renovated into offices by design — daylight brought in, courtyards planted — and the announced esports arena will put the building's former storage dark under a different kind of lighting entirely. WHAT REMAINS The building that housed the reports is now a student success center; the basement where the stall door slammed is offices, and the AV room's VCRs are, like the medium itself, retired. Whatever was filed there belongs to a specific stratum — a working library's after-hours years, ending December 2019. Students still file the occasional report from the Success Center era — the building's institutional memory of footsteps and self-moving supplies transferred, apparently, with the furniture. The file keeps its modest proportions: two rooms, a handful of incidents, one electrician's failure to explain. For a haunting, that restraint is almost a credential. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Reported experience] objects moving: A retold restroom account describes a stall door slamming and paper towels moving without an observed cause. Basement restroom is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. The site in Honolulu, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record. source: UH Manoa’s Haunted Libraries (https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/uh-manoas-haunted-libraries) · [Anecdotal] electronic anomalies: The retelling describes VCRs switching on and off in the basement audiovisual room. Former audiovisual room is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. The reports at Sinclair Library building are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The account appears in 'UH Manoa’s Haunted Libraries'. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern. source: UH Manoa’s Haunted Libraries (https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/uh-manoas-haunted-libraries) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · University sources identify conversion of the former library into a student success center; a 2026 notice plans an esports arena for August 2027. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Aloha Pacific FCU makes 10-year investment in UH…'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. SOURCES — 3 cited · UH Manoa’s Haunted Libraries — Mysteries of Hawaiʻi https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/uh-manoas-haunted-libraries · Kūlia i ka Nuʻu — University of Hawaii at Manoa https://manoa.hawaii.edu/campus-environments/transformation-campus-projects/kulia-i-ka-nu%CA%BBu/ · Aloha Pacific FCU makes 10-year investment in UH Esports, new arena set for 2027 — University of Hawaii https://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=14327 — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/