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The haunting of the Athens Library Heritage Room

A woman in a yellow dress holds up a small notebook opened to a page that says, "Ghost Book."
Havivah Saltz
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WUGA
Rachel Bentley shows off the Heritage Room's "Ghost Book," which staff use to keep track of supernatural encounters.

The Athens-Clarke County Library’s Heritage Room serves as the headquarters of the Archives and Special Collections Department, with a focus on local history and genealogy. The tucked-away space doesn’t get many visitors—but it may have a resident ghost. WUGA’s Havivah Saltz went to the Heritage Room to meet Rachel Bentley, a Heritage Room Specialist, and hear her ghost story.

This is the first installment of "Ghost Gabs", a series of Athens ghost stories. If you have a story you’d like to tell, email havivahsaltz@uga.edu.

Havivah Saltz has been with WUGA since 2023 as an on-air host and the producer for African Perspectives. She got her start in radio on WOBC FM at Oberlin College (class of ‘23), and she’s also worked as an on-air host on Athens' Power 100.1 and Magic 102.1. She is currently the interim producer of Athens News Matters. Outside of work, you can find Havivah making art, writing fiction, practicing Japanese, petting her very round cat, and watching concerning amounts of TV.
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