The Auburn Water Works Board has begun demolition of two water towers that are no longer useful to the water system, according to the city of Auburn. Demolition of the tank located on Armstrong Street, built in the 1930s, and the tank located on East University Drive, built in the 1970s, is scheduled to be complete by December.
Jackson had heard stories about unexplainable sounds and sightings before he began working with the fire department in 1985. He swapped stories with the people he worked with until he changed jobs in 1990, and he is still a familiar face around fire department headquarters 24 years later. And 24 years later, the number of stories about paranormal activity at the station has grown.
Following the trail through the woods and over two hills past the grave of Penn Yonge, the ghost who allegedly haunts Spring Villa Mansion, Faith Serafin and her team of paranormal investigators walked onto an ancient Native American gravesite.
A bright flash of light like a fireball shot down the front stairwell of the Whitfield-Duke-Searcy House five years ago. Three women working with the city of Opelika witnessed the light and remember the event vividly, but it is just one of the many stories people working in the house tell when asked about the ghost of the house.
The town of Loachapoka will be welcoming approximately 20,000 people, Oct. 18, for the 43 annual Syrup Sopping and Lee County Historical Society Fair.
The East Alabama Male College, which later became Auburn University, closed down during the Civil War. The campus was used as a training ground for Confederate soldiers, and the Auburn University Chapel, in the same location today on the corner of Thach Avenue and College Street, was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.
Standing in the shadows of the haunted Spring Villa Mansion on Tuesday night, eight gun shots went off somewhere in the woods. I don't believe in ghosts, and I'm always skeptical about paranormal activity. But as the padlock to the mansion door unlocked with a click, chills went up my back. The gun shots made me look over my shoulder, but the allegedly haunted house made the hair on my back stand up.
Theft on Auburn University's campus has decreased by 8 percent, according to Capt. Lorenza Dorsey of the Auburn Police Division.
Jeff Pokorney thumbed through his set of keys to unlock the thick padlock keeping the doors to Spring Villa Mansion closed to the public. The front of the house facing the street doesn't have electricity, but the dim streetlight from the back gives just enough light to see through the windows of the allegedly haunted house.
Al Greco has expanded to three stores and a service center, but a quick downward spiral of events since the financial downturn has put his family business in hot water. His daughter, Auburn alumna Laura Greco, 43, is reaching out to the Auburn Family through social media for help.
