Shell

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the Shell car wash closed its doors, a strange voice began echoing over the loudspeaker. ‘Your tires are low on magic,’ it said, and drivers would glance nervously around. One day, an old neighbor pulled in for a quick clean. The voice crackled, ‘Your tires are low on magic.’ He laughed and drove off. Months later, he returned with a big smile: ‘Guess what? My car’s tires never needed air since that night!’ Everyone shook their heads, smiling, knowing it was just another Shell legend.

2. Late one afternoon, as a delivery driver pulled into the Shell car wash, he noticed something odd—an eerie humming sound seemed to follow him from the nozzles. As he dried off, he heard it again—a soft laugh coming from behind the suds. Turning around, he saw only an empty bay and a mischievous smile on his neighbor’s face who was washing his own car next door.

3. At dawn, when no one else was around, a faint humming sound would occasionally come from inside the Shell car wash. A delivery driver first noticed it and thought nothing of it until one morning he found an old vinyl record stuck in the doorframe. The delivery driver took out the record, curious about its origin. To his surprise, it was an ancient copy of ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’. As he played it, the humming stopped, replaced by laughter from inside the building. Turned out, an elderly neighbor had been leaving records there for years as a joke on whoever cleaned the place—just to hear them sing along.

4. In the early morning fog, when most people were still dreaming, a familiar hum started up near the Shell car wash. It wasn’t loud enough for passersby to notice, but those who worked late shifts claimed it sounded like an old-time jukebox playing deep in the night. One night, a delivery driver named John swears he saw an old man waving from one of the jets. When he stopped to investigate, nobody was there except for a mischievous smile on the sign that said ‘Clean & Go.’ The next day, everyone agreed it must’ve been just the mist playing tricks—until they found out the water had mysteriously turned into lemonade.