History & local legend
Carbondale City Hall and Courthouse contains more than municipal offices: its basement preserves the old jail cells. Employees had reported hearing footsteps on the second floor and finding an empty hallway when they went to investigate. Those accounts brought the Pennsylvania Paranormal Association to the building on August 28 and 29, 2009.
According to the team’s field report, investigators Ken and Bob watched an office photocopier begin operating without anyone using it. It stopped with a message saying it could not read the original document.
In the basement, Bob and another investigator heard three or four footsteps in the hallway outside the cell they occupied. The sound did not appear on their recordings.
