History & local legend
Young Hall is the long brick family-housing building beside Indian Field at Carlisle Barracks in Cumberland County. Its conversion into twenty-six homes made the sounds of neighbors an ordinary part of life. One resident, however, came to question who—or what—was living overhead.
In an account posted in May 2023, the resident described spending almost a year hearing babies cry and heavy footsteps cross the upstairs apartment. The sounds were frequent and loud enough that the resident assumed the apartment was occupied. Only near the end of the stay did they learn that no one lived there.
Sources
- Young Hall resident, firsthand account published May 5, 2023
- U.S. Army War College, Young Hall family housing, conversion and 26 homes
- Construction contractor, photographs of Young Hall
- Visiting Army War College family, dated photographs identifying building beside parade field
- OpenStreetMap, building footprint matched to photographs
- U.S. Army War College Public Affairs, 2006 aerial of Indian Field and the barracks
