{"id":1728,"slug":"sweetwater-county-library-green-river-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The account the staff and Wyoming coverage preserve holds that the lot at 300 North 1st East in Green River began its recorded afterlife as the town's cemetery, established in 1892. In the 1920s the graves were relocated uphill to the new Riverview Cemetery — markers lost, burned, or repurposed along the way — and the old ground served as a park and then as veterans' housing after World War II. The Sweetwater County Library was built on the site in 1980. Local reporting describes construction crews turning up remains that had been missed, with further discoveries into the 1990s, and the state tourism office repeats the story; the file's research notes flag the burial-ground history as still wanting archival confirmation, and the dossier keeps it at that level.","What is fully documented is the library's own record-keeping. In 1993 librarian Micki Gilmore began entering reported experiences into a binder at the circulation desk — the 'Ghost Log' — which is still being added to and was published in 2019 as Spirits in the Stacks."]},{"heading":"The angry lady and the log","paragraphs":["The log's inventory is domestic-scale: books found moved or shelved wrong, whispers, footsteps in empty aisles, faces reported in the walls. Librarian Tiffany Kennah has described the oldest named presence, the 'angry lady' — a stern elderly face she says she saw emerging from the bathroom tile when she was nine years old.","The library leans in rather than denies: the library foundation's ghost walks are its only fundraiser, and in 2024 the Ghost Walk Crew dedicated plaques at Riverview marking mass graves of residents missed in the original cemetery move. Reported phenomena, unresolved ground — the file lets both stand."]}],"name":"Sweetwater County Library","aliases":[],"type":"LIBRARY","type_label":"Library","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Library with a recorded paranormal-report tradition.","full_desc":"Sweetwater County Library is a library in Green River, Wyoming. Library with a recorded paranormal-report tradition. The archive files it under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":"300 N. 1st E. 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The site in Green River, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including '15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming' keep the claim in circulation. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming","url":"https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-places-to-visit-in-wyoming/","publisher":"Wyoming Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Wyoming Office of Tourism recounts staff and patron accounts of moving books and whispers. Sweetwater County Library in Green River, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. '15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The report is preserved in sources like '15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming","url":"https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-places-to-visit-in-wyoming/","publisher":"Wyoming Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"15 Haunted Places to Visit in Wyoming","url":"https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/haunted-places-to-visit-in-wyoming/","publisher":"Wyoming Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}