Rand Building

The Rand Building's haunted reputation is built around two distinct presences. The first is 'Henry,' said to be a carpenter who lost his life in a fire on the site before the current tower was built (per WBUF and US Ghost Adventures' Buffalo coverage). Henry is the spirit most often cited by radio staff describing late-night phenomena on the 12th and 13th floors.

WBUF radio's own feature on the building — written from the vantage point of a station that broadcasts from the 12th floor — documents a long-running pattern of first-person staff reports: footsteps echoing through empty halls, doors opening and closing without a living soul in sight, lights flickering, the sensation of a cold hand gripping the shoulder, static-filled broadcasts interrupted by eerie whispers, and chairs in the studio found rotated overnight. WBLK, a separate Townsquare Buffalo radio station, independently corroborates the Rand Building haunting in its own 'haunted Buffalo places' feature, citing Henry by name and describing the same upper-floor phenomena. A contributor to WearBuffalo.net has also published a first-person account of working overnight in the building and encountering doors closing, a ghostly woman in the halls, and lights switching on and off.

A second strand of the lore describes a female apparition seen wandering the corridors of the upper floors after dark, distinct from the Henry stories. No specific historical figure has been confidently attached to this presence in the available sources, and several Buffalo ghost-tour scripts treat her as a more recent and less documented phenomenon than Henry.

The Rand Building's haunting is also listed among US Ghost Adventures' top ten most haunted places in Buffalo, featured on their commercial walking tour, providing additional independent documentation from an established ghost-tour operator.