It's 9pm on 13th March. It is a Friday. I'm at the front door of the original Mitchell Library building and it's locked - (transition: "shudder")+(transition-time: 3000) [everyone has left for the weekend!] I knew I shouldn't have got so caught up in reading that ghost story up on Level 4...
Speaking of that ghost story... I think I am living it!
I can't decide where I should go next. Do I take the stairs to the [[Jeffrey Library]] or the [[Burns Library]] or just head straight into the [[Main Hall]]?
Skylights, bookcases, suns with faces carved into them. But nowhere else to go, so I could head back [[downstairs|Start]] or go along the corridor to the [[Burns Library]].This is a room with skylights and various Burns artefacts.
Do I go back down the main stairs to the [[Entrance |Start]] or take a closer look at the [[bookcase at the back|Secret door to stacks]]?The ceiling is made of leaded glass. There's a door in the back wall. Do I head back to the [[Entrance|Start]] or see if the door is [[locked|Stacks at Old Lift]]
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(Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_anderson/2406676025/in/photolist-4EEQWe-4EK76o-7PiewX-5SqyXJ-887EJ4-cNUAB5-b7fmJn-a7Q2W-amfqjE-7PidVi-7xGqTv-nSd1Cn-8wy7At-7pUvZE-fPxFd8-de89t4-gV9hVy-gV4Et5-gVC3vs-cFnuej-9h3d1A-jCa4gA-7Pngeb-cwbkgb-7xGqQK-fBTSSE-gw9U6-a2Qhak-axK82o-dYrgwZ-7xLf6j-99ex6B-h98AwF-h9nHnz-h99Bis-2Mzjf-4WNc9W-7xphJD-h7dwrX-gVC9RH-6o4NkG-4TuQnw-6o4MU3-gV9xDx-cFnUpw-cFntzU-aDUU4m-5zL3Y5-6nZC46-9gZ5YF">Bill Anderson on Flickr</a>)The door isn't locked - I step into a room full of high bookshelves. There's a lift in the far corner.
The lift doors open, I get in and press the button marked "LG". When the lift arrives and the doors open I step out into a dimly lit area. Do I [[turn left|Old Bindery ]] or [[turn right| Stacks with "keep door shut" sign]]Now that I am closer, I can see there's a door in the wall next to the bookcase. It's not locked, so I step through and find myself in a long room filled with old books on dark wooden shelves. At the back of the room is a (transition:"pulse")+(transition-time: 4000)[[[heavy wooden doorway|Old extension Stacks]]]I appear to be in a tiled room filled with all sorts of strange items...
In front of me, at the end of a row of dark, dusty bookcases, is a door with a sign saying "Keep locked at all times". I wonder what's behind it and if it's locked just now...There are rows of dark wooden shelves filled with books. I walk through them to find myself in a newer building, still filled with dusty shelves of books.
Walking through it, I find a staircase and follow it down, winding all the way to the [[lowest basement]] Down in the lowest level of the basement, three floors below the ground, I see... Floating objects! I assume it is a dream, but then I feel shivers and know it is real.
"The Mitchell ghosts!" I exclaim. But no one hears...