University Chapel
Once used as a theater, the University Chapel was a hospital during the Civil War. When the chapel was used by theater students, it was haunted by a ghost identified as Sydney Grimlett. When the thespians moved their operations across the street to the Telfair Peet Theater, Sydney followed. Sydney Grimlett, a confederate soldier, had his leg amputated before he died. When there are theater productions, Sydney makes his presence known by opening and closing drawers, making rattling noises, locking and unlocking doors, and destroying equipment only to repair it again. There have also been reports of pianos playing and footsteps on the catwalk.
i have lived in auburn for 30 year and 25 of them were no more than 5 miles from campus and this is the first time that i have ever heard of this story…… honestly i do not believe it
Comment by amanda | 10.25.2005 | 6:37 pm
its true, i heard pianos playing.
Comment by ned | 10.27.2005 | 1:16 am
I have been in the univercity.I also seen a floting paper.
Comment by Cyndie | 03.25.2006 | 1:16 pm
You guys know this isn’t true and certainly not floating paper? (which you typed in wrong)Come on. Be real the University of Alabama has had a ghost story for many years, this was just made up by someone who wants to either get attention themselves or draw attention to Auburn.
Comment by Emile | 03.29.2006 | 5:16 pm
I want to hear more about those thespians. There is just something about two women together that drives me nuckin’ futs.
Comment by Joseph Clark | 05.23.2006 | 11:48 am
I think this article is very cool. Not only does it tell us about ghost ghost, but about history which is my favorite subject.
p.s. none of ya’ll out there reading my comic think i’m a gody good, because I ain’t.
good bye ya’ll
Comment by Hannah | 06.7.2006 | 2:01 pm
I lived across the street from the chapel for a year and a half and had no experience with this story. I never went in, but walked past the chapel sometimes 3 times a day for all that time. I never heard this story, and never saw, heard or sensed anything. I can only speak for myself, but I don’t believe this one.
Comment by Erica | 08.5.2006 | 10:02 pm
Uh, Joseph Clark? The word ‘thespians’ is a synonym for the word ‘actors’. It has no relationship whatso ever to the word ‘lesbians’. It’s called a dictionary.
Comment by ...... | 08.27.2006 | 3:12 pm
Weirdos
Comment by concerned20 year old | 10.8.2006 | 3:59 pm
The reason why most people don’t hear or see anything in the chapel is because Sydney has moved to the Telfair Peet Theater. The rest of the story goes is that he made himself known when the Auburn Players would do an English play with southern accents as he was English and was not happy with this. I have heard this story before and actually from a tour of the university before I became a student here. I’ve also heard that if you stand in the door way of the chapel and talk or scream it will not echo. I don’t know if that is true.
Comment by Melissa | 10.27.2006 | 12:45 am
Auburn sucks…. Roll Tide Roll ( even thought we lost )
Comment by katie | 11.22.2006 | 12:57 pm
this is stupid folks, im fae Edinburgh and we have preper ghosts, use should all see them!!
Comment by Hooky | 11.22.2006 | 1:08 pm
Auburn sucks you guys can’t play football, thats right i said it what are you going to do about it hahahahahahaha , wow go bama roll tide roll
Comment by katie | 11.23.2006 | 12:58 pm
thats a load who are you we won the iron bowl not you, so what now nothing to say to that thats what i thought you are cracked and your Quarter Back is a ***** *** mo fo , get over yourself your not that great , and isn’t this a ghost page , god you know what go to a football page and stop wasting my time . down with the crimson tide … go tigers
Comment by tim | 11.23.2006 | 6:17 pm
i hear ya tim war eagle alabama offered nick saban a 40 miliion dollar contract so he can get drunk and lose to auburn every year just like mike shula mike dubose mike price dennis franchonie bill curry ( war eagle fly down the field ever to conquer never to yield war eagle fearless and true fight on you orange and blue go go go on to victory strike up the band givem hell givem hell stand up and yell hey war eagle win for auburn power of dixie land)( glory glory to ole auburn glory glory to ole auburn glory glory to ole auburn A-U-B-U-R-N)
Comment by winston | 01.8.2007 | 12:54 pm
Auburn SUCKS!!!! ROLL TIDE……
Comment by BAMA GIRL | 02.11.2007 | 2:33 am
wow…it’s really stupid how A.D.D you can get….I thought this was a story about a haunted chapel….honestly, I’m not much for a buch of guys running around in tight, matching outfits….slapping each other on the butt…..
Comment by Xombie777 | 02.17.2007 | 5:49 am
Knew a few theater majors who claim this one is true, but who knows. I’m a little skeptical, personally.
Also, even though I hate football, hasn’t Alabama lost to Auburn the past 5 years? Get a clue, kids.
Comment by Aaron | 02.24.2007 | 3:24 am
listen mike shula was a tool so what its all about the joe kines he is far better then mike shula and nick saban , we are alabama’s dixie pride you are not ohhhh what now , you think that your team is the best well let me just say this who as one of the best high school qb’s in alabama , ( from hoover go bucs take it home ross ) and who has one of the best defense in the countery ( miss you tyrone get better soon ) who has
oh wait its not you it alabama so you know what you cna have the iron bowl cause we will take the rest by storm , down with the tigers roll tide roll .
Yea, Alabama! Drown ‘em Tide!
Every ‘Bama man’s behind you;
Hit your stride!
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave!
And if a man starts to weaken,
That’s a shame!
For ‘Bama’s pluck and grit
Have writ her name in crimson flame!
Fight on, fight on, fight on, men!
Remember the Rose Bowl we’ll win then!
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You’re Dixie’s football pride, Crimson Tide!
Comment by Katie | 03.5.2007 | 3:01 pm
you are crazy you relize , John Wilson is a drunken fool you lady , need to get a life and i take it you went to hoover well hoover had nothing on vestavia .
so start cheering for alabama’s true dixie pride .
go tigers .
Comment by Derek | 03.7.2007 | 1:17 pm
yes ghosts are reallll.
Comment by ......ghosttt.lizzie | 03.9.2007 | 3:57 pm
all u people are stupid and crazy. you should be talking about ghosts not dumb football. i think you guys shouldn’t cuss eather. You people talking about football should make a dumb club about it BECAUSE U WON’T SHUT UP!
Comment by pumpkin | 07.6.2007 | 11:51 am
What a crock… I have been in Auburn for over 20 years and have never heard such nonsense… It’s a shame that someone would make a simple comment about a ghost and turn it into a “Football” debate.. Also people, SPELL CHECK!!
Comment by roarkkin | 07.12.2007 | 5:37 pm
The ghost is too sexy for his shirt…too sexy for his socks-on the cat walk…(whistling)…(VERB on this one!)
Comment by loco | 08.24.2007 | 5:28 pm
yes i agree this is a hauntings site not a football site … and i go to auburn and i have actually hear this story along with plenty of others … we even have a bell tower that is haunted by a cow … you can’t sit there an disclaim a haunting when you’ve never been there or even if u have and nothing happened while u were there because ghosts don’t always want to come out and play if u can put it that way. these stories all originated from somewhere, rather they were meant to scare people or actually have truth in them they are part of the town’s history, so everyone should at least respect that. And btw War Eagle … 5 years in a row bama … just a month shy of number 6 … and whats that we beat the Gators for the 2nd time ending their winning streak !! thought i’d put alittle of school spirit in my comment too !
Comment by AuburnNursingStudent | 10.3.2007 | 11:44 am
On the catwalk…on the catwalk… la la la…
Comment by loco | 10.3.2007 | 1:15 pm
it dosnt seem like yall know yalls football john parker has broke so many records for alabama and he is fine.but auburn is the sh*t and always will be so get yalls story stairght
WIGGLE WIGGLE
WAR DA*N EAGLE
KICKEM IN THE BUTT
BIG BLUE WOOH
Comment by chasliegh | 10.20.2007 | 3:12 am
Hahaha daaang these comments are hilarious.
And, yeah–he’s way too sexy for his shirt.
Comment by ffffff | 10.31.2007 | 11:29 pm
The only thing that is going to draw attention to Auburn is their football team. Which I hate! Yet I live in Auburn. Never heard of this story and I agree with Amanda. I do not believe it to be true.
Comment by Jenna | 11.16.2007 | 2:41 am
It’s true. I live in Auburn and I’ve been there and I heard the ghost myself, no lie.
Comment by abc | 11.17.2007 | 12:07 am
WAR EAGLE 6 IN A ROW BABY
Comment by weagle89 | 02.29.2008 | 11:02 am
I was a theater major and I remember going down into the prop room in the basement of Telfair Peet by myself. I made a habit of chatting with Sydney, you know, just covering my bases. One night I was leaving the prop room with my hands full. I managed to get the door open by myself, but when I passed through the door, something turned out the lights for me.
Comment by TrulyTruly | 05.1.2008 | 12:03 am
You rednecks who get on, of all places, “realhaunts.com”, and talk about football make me sick. Goddam, for once in your life can you think of something else besides the “Iron Bowl” (it should be called the “Grits Bowl” for all you slack-jawed yokels)? I mean, honestly, is your life that empty and meaningless that you have to attach this sort of totemic meaning to what a bunch of KIDS do in a GAME that only lasts a few hours out of the entire year??? Are you thinking, rational, adults or not? Football is worthless for anything other than mindless entertainment, so go out and do something useful with your OWN life, instead of worrying about it.
Comment by Professor | 06.26.2008 | 12:19 pm