Fascinating post, @nancybriti
Haunted places are an endless source for theories and speculation s that make the most skeptical of us think it twice before totally disregarding the validity of the mystery.

Having grown up in a rural town, Yaguaraparo, State of Sucre, Venezuela, I know everything that can be said about ghosts and apparitions. We were breastfed with stories of gore and fear; inexplicable phenomena that were supposed to make us more sensitive about life and death.
It was always clear to us that there was not only life after death, but also some sort of in-between life after death.

Of course, as you grow up and leave your town and get an education, you are supposed to stop thinking like a child and believing childish stories.

One of the most impressive things for me about the time I spent in the USA was that all the stereotypes we had about ghost stories belonging to the realm of ignorance and third-world mentality was not so true.

First-world mentality had also room for ghosts and the supernatural. In fact, I’d say they have more room.
I met a great guy in Grad School at Ohio University, John Kachuba. He is the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction. Some of his books are precisely about haunted places. He started a series called Ghosthunting+state. I returned home when he had Ohio and Illinois covered. Not sure how many more states he’s written about.

The fascinating thing about these stories is that there are so many people who truly believe in them. John was very skeptical about the supernatural and he confesses in his books that he never witnessed anything that can be categorically taken as a ghost manifestation, but he did experience the eeriness in these places and he ends up giving some credit to the stories.

The library of Illinois State University at Normal, Milner Library, is said to be haunted by the ghost of its first librarian, Ange Milner (1890-1928). I studied hundreds of nights in that place and never experienced anything strange, but I met students and faculty who swear they had close encounters with Mrs. Milner.