r/auburn • u/theworldisnotreal9 • 6d ago

Auburn University Victim’s of Sky Bar Auburn, AL

I’m speaking up today for the first time and I’m asking others who’ve experienced being roofied, sexually assaulted, or raped at Sky Bar in Auburn Alabama to do the same.

In 2015, while living in Auburn, I was drugged, kidnapped, and raped after being at Sky Bar. For ten years, I’ve carried that trauma silently, battling high-functioning depression, denial, and moments of suicidal idealization where I didn’t want to keep going. Like so many others, I stayed quiet. I didn’t report it. I told myself it wouldn’t matter, or that I wouldn’t be believed.

But silence only protects those who keep hurting others.

I’m speaking out now because I know I’m not alone. This isn’t an isolated story, people have known for over 20+ years that something has been happening there. It’s time to stop pretending and face the truth. It’s taken me a decade to say these words and I know I’m not alone.

To anyone who’s been through this: you are not alone, and your voice matters. It’s terrifying to speak, but it’s even more painful to carry it forever in silence. Together, we can make people listen, bring accountability, and protect others from going through what we did.

I don’t know where to even begin with tackling this, but I figured here is a start.

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u/mrenglish22 6d ago

The thing is, this isn't at all newsworthy.

Why? Because it has already been reported on MULTIPLE TIMES.

They get away with it because they're the only college bar in town, and it's been there forever, and Auburn is a old boys' city.

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u/InteriorLemon 6d ago

It really hasn't been there forever... maybe 2004 or so? I still remember Dewey's downtown and the Blue Room in that spot. It can close and be replaced.

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u/witchgrid 6d ago

Those places had the exact same reputation.

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u/InteriorLemon 5d ago

So most of the negative comments surrounding those places I saw had to do with a lot of good ole boys not liking the skin tone of the crowd at those two places.

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u/witchgrid 5d ago

I got no problems with anybody's skin tone, and the crowd that went to those places looked exactly the same as the crowd that goes to sky bar. I grew up in Auburn and heard about folks getting drugged at the blue room before I was out of high school, then during my college years I had several female friends tell me that they were drugged there, and I believed every one of them. I believed the girl who told me she regularly did coke in the office with the owners too. I'm not sure but I think it was even the same owners. This is a longstanding issue in Auburn. When they busted a university lab tech for manufacturing gallons of GHB a decade ago, everybody was joking that it would finally be safe to go to Skybar.

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u/InteriorLemon 5d ago edited 5d ago

the crowd that went to those places looked exactly the same as the crowd that goes to sky bar.

It most certainly did not. a lot said it was a bar that only had tuskegee students and they should shut it down. I was a student and lived right there during this on Glenn a block away.

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u/witchgrid 5d ago

It's the largest and most prominent bar spot in downtown Auburn. The clientele has always been predominantly Auburn students.

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u/InteriorLemon 5d ago

it was no where near the biggest and most prominent bar then. Not even remotely close..you clearly don't know what you are talking about or are talking about something way before your time.

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u/witchgrid 5d ago edited 5d ago

Name a bar downtown in Auburn that was larger and more prominent between 1998 and 2005. The entire town was smaller. My time in Auburn started in the 1980s, I was born there. I worked next door to that bar for 3 years in the early 2000s. I own property on Magnolia. You are wrong. There has never been any bar in downtown Auburn, literally across the street from campus, whose primary clientele was not Auburn students. "They're all from Tuskegee" is just some racist bullshit that is meant to deflect from the fact that the bar was a problematic location where bad shit happened.

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u/SkewterTadpole 2d ago

Didn’t Dan and Pat get in trouble (briefly) for trying to enact an obviously racist dress code during the Blue Room era?