Dr. David Caraway, AP European History teacher and self-proclaimed “paper boy in a digital world,” granted me an interview a few days ago during lunch. Mrs. Hall had mentioned the “library ghosts” during a tangential in-class discussion of how Keystone was haunted some weeks previous and pointed me to Dr. Caraway for more information. Of course, I had to know what Mrs. Hall was talking about and thought it would make a perfect Halloween article, so I recorded Dr. Caraway’s ghost story last week. Here’s what he says happened: 

“Upstairs in the library, on the east side of the building [the theater side], from 2005 to 2021, that was my classroom. One day in October, around 2008 or so, I was sitting at my desk, right at dusk. It was one of those hot early-October evenings where the San Antonio summer heat has not yet broken. [It] was very calm, very still. Anyway, I looked up from my desk, which was up against the southern wall of the room, facing north. There’s a window there, fairly close to the desk. Suddenly the blind began vigorously, even violently, coming away from the window. It was really moving. I thought ‘Oh, the window is open and the wind has come up.’ So, I got up and went over to the window and discovered the windows were both screwed and painted shut. And so, I thought, ‘Well, okay, it’s the air conditioner register.’ I went over to the air conditioner thermostat on the other side of the wall, and the air conditioner was not on. There was no air conditioner blowing. I went back and looked at the nearest air conditioner vent, and it was rather far away, several feet and not even aimed at the window. By now, the violent moving of the blind had stopped. That’s the end of the story.”

Dr. Caraway proceeded to add that he has no idea what caused the movement, only that people he relayed the story to gave him “knowing smiles and went ‘yeah, stuff goes on in that room.’” He also noted that “before the theater was built, some of the people who have been here longer–some of, for example, the housekeeping staff–reported for years, looking up from the blacktop [now the sport court], that they could see into the window of my future room [now part of the library] and they talked about seeing a man’s face. [He appeared to be] late middle age, or early elderly, wearing clothes from the 1930s. Others reported that while working downstairs at night, they would hear screams coming from upstairs and all kinds of horrible things.” 

Now, is the library haunted? I have no idea. Have you ever experienced something like that?