Longstreet Theatre

South Carolina · United States · Hospital

The green room of this university theatre is three brick barrel vaults in the basement. During the Civil War the building was a military hospital, and.

Longstreet Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina served as a military hospital during the Civil War, and everything reported in it traces back to that.

The room now used as the green room is in the basement, and it is not an ordinary room. It is three barrel vaulted alcoves built of brick. Long standing tradition holds that this is where the morgue was.

Students have circulated accounts of sightings and of noises for decades, and they concentrate late at night, which is when theatre students are in a building and nobody else is.

The measure of how seriously it is taken is behavioural rather than anecdotal. Some students refuse to go down there.

A green room is where performers wait, which means the most used social space in the theatre is the one everyone is uneasy about. In a working university theatre that is a genuine inconvenience, and the fact that the department lives with it says something about how consistent the reports have been.

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Where is Longstreet Theatre located?

Longstreet Theatre is in South Carolina, United States.

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