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.
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winston says: |
June 2, 2010, 2:07 pm |
WAR DAMN EAGLE RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER GO TO HELL ALABAMA, now as for you idiots telling us to stop talking about football on a ghost site this is a free country and i speak for every college football fan when i say this if we wanna go on a politics site, ghost site or concert site thats our right people died for us to have those rights
Slick Rick says: |
July 6, 2010, 1:39 am |
Hi all just moved to Tuskegee from Birmingham. Auburn is right down the road from me and i would like to know of other haunted places either in Tuskegee or Auburn. Also GO!!!! TIGERS!!!!
Jenny says: |
August 7, 2010, 3:50 am |
I was actually a theatre student in telfair peet two years ago. I believe this story because sydney has messed with us several times. We couldnt get the dressing room door unlocked and tried several keys, came back and the door was unlocked. Things get moved around alot after shows after everyone has left as if he had played with them. auburn players always blame sydney for peculiar events (a band BLAME SYDNEY! was even formed after this whole story). Oh, and WAR EAGLE!
marzturtle says: |
August 23, 2010, 10:52 pm |
ROLL TIDE TIDE!!!!!!!
woo says: |
October 13, 2010, 5:46 pm |
guys…just blame sydney
susan says: |
October 29, 2010, 2:03 am |
I was 8 years old, alone in the costume room for the production of The King and I directed by Dr Ralph Miller..back in 1981. I heard the outside door slam and I ran to check because I wasn’t supposed to be in the costume room. I thought I saw the door that slammed moving, which scared me to death because I tried it and it was locked! Yes…the place is haunted. You will get a chill just walking in.
xxxxxxxxx says: |
April 14, 2011, 2:51 pm |
wwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww……..T
his is a ghost story for cryin out loud!
Gin says: |
May 11, 2011, 7:05 pm |
I live in Auburn and have been to the theatre several times. They did a haunted house there when I was a kid, but don’t know it they still do, and I never experienced anything but that’s not to say that nothing is there. Oh, btw, I think the comment about wanting to hear more about the thespians was intended to be a joke and I chuckled when I read it. I’m a Tigers fan myself, but I came to this site not because I’m a fan but because I live in Auburn and wanted to read about the haunted places in the city. However, a lot of theses comments have nothing to do with the haunting. Go figure!
Danielle says: |
August 13, 2011, 10:42 pm |
Great news!
The Alabama Paranormal Research Team has recently authored a book of over 20 haunted locations withing the Auburn/ Opelika (Lee County) area including The Auburn University Chapel which they themselves have investigated on many occasions and have documented actual scientific evidence of ghostly activity.
Check out their website to view information about their findings of this haunting and get more details about the book’s release coming this October 2011.
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sydney grimlett says:
June 30, 2009, 10:18 pm
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO am sydney i play piano and am 6 years old i love to lock the bathroom doors when my mother and my father in the bathroom because than i can ear my choclate ice cream hahhahahahhaha this all is S**T!