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Violence. Death. Destruction. When you walk onto the campus of the University of Alabama, you are walking into a place where gunfights, riots, and war have left a number of phantoms behind to haunt the hallways and grounds of the U of A.

The U of A opened its doors to the public in 1831, having about 100 students. Since its inception, the university had disciplinary problems, with gunfights on the grounds not being all that uncommon. After 29 years of trouble, the school was transformed into a military academy, and just in time to train soldiers for the Civil War. Some say that in April of 1865, a Union soldier came onto campus to sign a treaty. When he entered the cadet guardhouse, now known as Jason’s Shrine or as The Little Round House, he was beaten, tortured and murdered. Another version of the story is that when Union troops were marching to the university–specifically to burn it down–two confederate soldiers stayed behind to kill a few Yankees. When three Federal soldiers asked one of the young cadets where to find some whiskey, he told them to go into the small structure. Lying in wait was the second southern cadet who shot the three soldiers when they entered the building. If you put your ear up to the door, you can sometimes hear soldiers prowling for whiskey. On a foggy night, some say the spirits of soldiers can be seen marching through the quad to an unknown spectral destination.

Smith Hall has also had some spooky incidents reported from within. Some say that they have heard Dr. Smith’s carriage, which is exhibited on the main floor, careen through the building, the sound of wheels and horses coming out of nowhere. Footsteps also have been heard entering the upstairs classrooms and the sounds of a ghostly lecture coming from a classroom at night. One night, a few students tried to catch what they thought was an intruder in the building. They followed the voices to a classroom, and when they entered the room, the once lined-up rows of desks were scattered. They later discovered that a boiler explosion had killed a number of students who were in the room years before. In the basement, students have complained of feeling watched while working in the lab. An assistant was pushed into a closet one night and locked in. When he tried to open the closet door, it would not release him until morning. From then on, he ignored any out of the ordinary sounds, all interest in investigation had been sucked out of him.

The most common complaint students have is microwaves starting, stopping and making strange noises, even when the microwave is unplugged. Photos are developed showing light orbs floating through them, and footsteps are heard at night. Some say that a girl committed suicide by lighting herself on fire on the 13th floor of Tutwiler Hall. Shadowy forms of people have been spotted speeding through the halls.

Gorgas Library still entertains the ghost of its namesake, Amelia Gayle Gorgas and the Music Library is haunted by a man in black who wanders the stacks, sometimes touching people looking through materials. Hoole Special Collections Library has an elevator that will still occasionally drop off ghostly riders when the power has been turned off.

Even Tennessee Williams has a part of the hauntings at the University. Marian Gallaway, the theater director during the mid-twentieth century, has been sighted in white on the stage in her theater in Rowand-Johnson Hall. Marian’s husband had left her to pursue a romance with Tennessee Williams, and Williams supposedly used Marian as the inspiration for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

The students of the University of Alabama have a lot more “school spirit” than they may have bargained for.

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JD says:

May 6, 2009, 1:11 pm

so i just read this **** and wow chris u huge f***ing ***. everything in the world has to do with sports you panzy *** b****. go to the south and say sports dont matter u gon get popped u little b**** so yea p roll tide!!!!

Destiny Olsovksy says:

May 12, 2009, 1:07 pm

i bet that it would be fun to visit there one day.. OMG!! i wish i could go there..

Lynn says:

June 2, 2009, 11:23 pm

I know for a fact that there are places on the University of Alabama that are haunted. Just go to TuscaloosaParanormal.com and there you can hear things that were caught at Smith Hall which is on the University of Alabama’s campus.

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June 2, 2009, 11:27 pm

I am sorry the website is TuscaloosaParanormalResearchGroup.com

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September 21, 2009, 11:31 am

omg that has to br creepy living there if u do but i would leave right away

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October 12, 2009, 3:01 pm

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Nicole says:

October 31, 2009, 4:40 pm

I have heard the footsteps in Smith Hall. we were in the building around 3 am, before they put up the cameras and electronic locks. We walked from the left side wing of the building (if one is facing the front of the building from the outside, the left wing was often left unlocked) to the middle, above which is the museum. From there, we started into the right hand wing. We walked, and heard a very loud rythmic creaking that followed our footsteps. We thought it was our own walking causing the walls to creak, but this was directly above us. We signaled by hand to stop, and as we did, the footsteps continued walking above us, about 4 or 5 steps after we stopped. It could very well have been the building creaking, or it could have been a ghost. There were no lights on upstairs (you can see from the outside, and I’ve had classes up there, I know the layout) but one never knows.

brenda says:

December 16, 2009, 4:01 pm

is that true

Tiffany says:

March 1, 2010, 9:22 pm

I live about an hour away from UNA. I had hopes to attend this fall. I’ve visited once, but now hearing these stories, I want to go again and listen harder. PS, Don’t make fun of people from Alamabama. Not all of us are ‘hicks’… Thank you.

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