TikTok Video About 'Haunted' Alabama Library Goes Viral; Management To Bring Back Ghost Tours

The Homewood Library, a well-known "haunted" place in Alabama, is reportedly planning to bring back its ghost tours, thanks to all the attention it has been getting since going viral on TikTok.

The public's interest in the library and its past was reignited with the help of a TikTok video by Joshua Dairen, who has more than 83,000 followers on the platform, in August. Titled "Alabama Urban Legends Part 80," the clip was part of a series of clips featuring haunted locations in the state.

"When the doors close at the Homewood Library, the library becomes a different place," Dairen can be heard saying in the video, which has so far amassed more than 120,000 likes.

The video eventually reached Judith Wright, the current director of the library. In an interview with CBS 42, Wright said, "One of our board members sent me an email and said, 'my granddaughter saw this on TikTok!' And we absolutely loved it."

Wright went on to share that she and the library staff have been inundated with calls and emails from people all around the U.S. asking them about the ghosts in the library.

The public library has been a subject of paranormal myths for years. Workers and staff members have reported otherworldly occurrences in it, such as lights flickering erratically, rods floating in mid-air and the sound of women talking in the basement.

"When workers come down here to check on it, nobody is here," Leslie West, head of the library Adult Services programs, said, according to the outlet.

Interestingly, spooky experiences as such have been widely documented in books about hauntings in the state. One of them is "Stories From the Haunted South" by Alan Brown.

Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the library was known to host ghost tours. Now, plans are reportedly being made to bring the tours back as a means of raising funds. Dairen shared the news in a follow-up TikTok video Monday.

The library has quite a history. As far as public records show, a small farmhouse once stood there, but it eventually gave way to The Church of Christ in the 1960s. The said church was then converted into a library in the mid-1980s. However, there is no known history regarding what could be causing the paranormal occurrences, according to CBS 42.

In 2010, Deborah Fout, who was the director of the library at the time, said she was open to letting paranormal investigators in the place to look into the strange and unexplained sights and sounds in it, AL.com reported. She even granted a request from South Eastern Paranormal Studies. However, she did not hear back from them.