In the first scene of the movie “Ghostbusters,” Pete Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler search to catch a ghost that haunts a library.

Well, maybe the Ghostbusters should inspect Founders Memorial Library.

At the beginning of the year, the university archives moved from Swen Parson to the library, but did the ghost of Laura Cooper move with the archives?

The ghost of Laura Cooper is said to have haunted the school’s archives while they were in Swen Parson’s basement.

Glen Gildemeister, the director of the Regional History Center, said Cooper’s ghost has been seen four times in the past 20 years, and in all of the instances has appeared to women. He also said that the women who saw the apparition were “very reputable people,” and they did not work together or know of the other sightings in the past.

“I’m not a big promoter of ghosts, but I do believe the people who said that they saw the ghost of Laura Cooper,” Gildemeister said.

He also said that all of the women who saw Cooper’s ghost described the exact same situation – a woman, about age 30, walking in the first stack of the archive storage, and when she was spotted from a distance, she quickly disappeared into the stacks.

Will the spirit of Laura Cooper appear again this Halloween, the 37th anniversary of her death?

“I do not know if she came across the street with her things,” Gildemeister said. “But if it is a paranormal thing, then she probably will come with her collections.”

The collections of Laura Cooper include her personal papers, diaries, prayer books and a scrapbook compiled by her that contains her family history and town newspaper clippings.

Some students are skeptical about believing in the ghost of Laura Cooper.

“I think that there is a chance that the sightings are more of a coincidence than anything,” sophomore biology major Eric Althoff said. “But the next time I go to the library, I am going to take my mom.”