Neyland Stadium might be the scariest place to visit in all of college football with Arch Manning’s No. 1 Texas the next potential victims.Not only do Volunteers fans make more noise than any other team, there are hundreds of skeletons inside its walls.Arch Manning will run out into a wall of noiseGettyFans can generate up to 136 decibelsGettyTennessee’s home and its grim residents featured in 2009 film The Blind Side, where rival schools told stories of of bodies rising from their graves beneath the stadium to put a fictionalized version of Michael Oher off going there.The truth is rathe rless macabre.Tennessee’s anthropology department is located inside Neyland Stadium where the players’ dormitory used to be.“People still ask us about [The Blind Side] for sure,” said Dr. Dawnie Steadman, director of the Forensic Anthropology Center at UT. “It pops up in popular culture in a number of ways, and there’s always the good and the bad associated with that. NFL Weekly Newsletter - SIGN UP!talkSPORT is your home for NFL in the UK as we launch our biggest year of coverage yet!2026 promises to be an epic year for NFL on talkSPORT – and we want you to join us for the ride.MORE INFO & SIGN-UP HERE!This season will be our biggest ever with live commentary of 90+ games, including behind-the-scenes access to international games and all three London fixtures, plus bumper coverage of Super Bowl 61 at SoFi Stadium.Exclusive interviews, hard-hitting opinion, latest front-office drama and top breaking news – all delivered straight to your inbox each week.“The recognition is good, but we want the science represented properly.”Over 1,000 skeletons were in residence when ESPN visited 11 years ago.They are donated to the department, which studies their decomposition at a place called The Body Farm, thankfully it is not on-site.Inside Neyland they are treated as scientists develop tests to help law enforcement identify remains.“It allows researchers from all around the world to come and create new methods or validate existing methods,” Steadman told ESPN. “So it’s a tremendous research asset.”The skeletons aren’t the only things lurking in the shadows.Tennessee fans give opponents a hard timeGettyThe capacity has been cut down from record levelsGettyThe bowl packed with orange is quite a sightGettyTennessee used to have artificial turf, which developed a terrible smell in hot weather.Giant sinkholes were found when grass took its place, the result or poor drainage.Thankfully those have been filled in and the turf is far better suited to Tennessee weather.Neyland began life as Shields–Watkins Field, which had just one stand and a capacity of 3,200.Since it was born in 1921, 16 renovations have seen its size balloon all the way to almost 110,000 seats, before a slight decline to just over 100,000.View Tweet: https://t.co/UFdlGh3zYCIn 1962, it was given its current name in honor of General Robert Neyland — the recently former athletic director and coach who turned the program into a powerhouse.Ahead of the current season, On3 ranked the top 10 atmospheres in college football by decibels and Neyland came out on top.According to the site, the noise can reach a level of 137 dB on any given Saturday.Husky Stadium was second with a decibel level of 133.6.Manning is out to prove he is worthy of the No. 1 pick, if he can silence the Rocky Top, he will be one step closer to the summit.