About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. It was just another quiet morning at the BP gas station in downtown Chicago when a regular noticed something peculiar. As he filled up his car, he heard an odd humming sound coming from inside one of the pumps. Curious, he peered inside and saw a tiny ant trying to carry a piece of straw thicker than its body. The humming turned out to be the ant's determined struggle against gravity. A delivery driver passing by laughed so hard he almost spilled coffee on himself. That day, the regular became known as ‘Ant Hero’ among fellow customers.
2. At the old BP station in rural Indiana, something strange started happening one autumn afternoon. A little girl, clutching her teddy bear, walked up to the pump and pointed excitedly at the sign above it. 'Mommy,' she whispered, 'why does it say “Premium Bear”?' The attendant chuckled and leaned closer, squinting at the sign. ‘Oh, that,’ he said with a smile. ‘It’s just an old joke from when I worked here. Premium Bear is what we call our premium gasoline.’ The little girl giggled, and her mom shook her head, laughing too. ‘Next time you see something funny,’ she told her daughter, ‘ask if it’s a Premium Bear!’
3. At the late-night BP station in New Orleans, a delivery driver swore he saw a ghostly figure filling up cars for free. "It’s not haunting us,” he said with a laugh, “it’s probably just the spirit of some long-lost gas jockey.” A few nights later, another delivery driver reported seeing the same apparition. When asked how it paid, she replied, ‘With ghost money, I guess!’ Turns out, everyone was just teasing each other—until one morning when someone found an old photo of a smiling gas attendant from the ’80s hanging on the wall.
4. At the midnight BP station in Las Vegas, a security guard noticed something odd—every time he walked past the cash register, the price of gas mysteriously dropped by five cents. One night, an exhausted delivery driver stopped for a refill and asked if they could keep the lower price. The manager shrugged, saying it was just ‘Las Vegas magic.’ From then on, whenever anyone filled up, the gas cost exactly what the last customer paid—until everyone got their own special deal!