History & local legend
On January 7, 2012, four paranormal research groups investigated the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie borough after closing time. Photographer Bernadette E. Kazmarski joined them and later published an account of a session in the library’s reference room.
About seven people gathered in the darkened room, lit by streetlights coming through the windows. One investigator asked an unseen presence to supply a name while recording the session. Nobody in the room heard an answer at the time.
On playback, however, Kazmarski and the others heard a whisper they understood as “Bobby.” A second recorder had been running nearby, but it did not capture the same sound. Kazmarski wrote about the experience three days later, alongside her photograph of the group.
