Posted on 10/31/2006 7:18:11 PM PST by CurlyBill
On a dripping, windless night, darkness swamped a jewel-box ceiling high above the Ideson Library’s top floor. Forty windows, each with eight panes glowing like opal in moonlight, crowned the walls. Downstairs, a dead girl gazed morosely from a framed photograph on the wall. In a portrait in the hall, a librarian gone from this life for 60 years sternly surveyed her domain.
One notices such things as a long night’s ghost hunt creeps toward dawn. Halloween brings out the spookiness in everyone. Even the most pinched skeptic secretly yearns for a tap on the shoulder from an invisible hand or that inexplicable bump in the night. In 21st century Houston, likely settings for such spine-chilling adventures -- at least public places -- seem rare. But the Julia Ideson Library, the 80-year-old Spanish Renaissance-styled brick building across from downtown’s glass and granite Main Branch library, may be one of them.
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Ghost Ping!!
I'm sure I'm leaving someone out . . . hometown H-town ghost ping!
CurlyBill, thank you for posting this. When I was in 4th grade, our teacher took about 5 of us to that library for Halloween. I'll never forget that trip. We had treats, punch and stories. It was so big and beautiful. I remember the portrait of Norma Meldrum. I couldn't understand in my child's mind why such a young girl could have died. That was the only sad moment of our visit. I'll always be greatful to that teacher for taking us.
I'd imagine that libraries can be spooky places after the doors close!
Well-written, enjoyable article.
Good for another bump.
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