Carleton House (Quarters No. 9), Fort Huachuca

The best-known ghost tradition on Fort Huachuca centers on Carleton House. According to a long-repeated post legend, a woman remembered as 'Charlotte' gave birth at the building when it served as the hospital; her newborn died and Charlotte herself died days later, reportedly never knowing whether her child had been properly buried. Her spirit is said to wander the house searching for the infant (U.S. Army; Tucson.com).

Residents and visitors have described a recurring set of phenomena that closely echo one another across independent accounts. People report seeing a whitish apparition of a young woman in a flowing white gown moving through the house and standing near the front door. Objects are said to be unaccountably scattered or rearranged, items hung on walls fall as if their nails were pulled out, and doorbells reportedly ring so persistently for no apparent reason that occupants have disconnected them (Shadowlands submission; U.S. Army).

A frequently cited detail is a single corner of one room, which in the original hospital was a ward, that stays markedly colder than the rest of the house regardless of the weather and resists efforts to heat it (Tucson.com). One family who lived there said their young daughter spoke of a friendly female visitor, and a rocking chair in the child's room was reported to move on its own. Renovation crews have described tools that were put away turning up scattered and doors found open in the morning after being locked at night (U.S. Army).

The morgue room downstairs features in some accounts as a focus of unease; the building's documented use as the post hospital, with that morgue a few steps below the main floor, is the historical anchor on which the ghost tradition rests.