Shell

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the Shell station’s neon sign flickered on, a little boy would appear out of nowhere. He’d run towards the pumps, pointing excitedly and whispering something no one could understand. Finally, someone asked him what he was saying. The boy replied, ‘He wants chocolate!’ It turned out that every night an anonymous neighbor brought his favorite candy bars as a midnight surprise for the gas station. Everyone laughed, and from then on, the boy became a local legend—just another friendly face at Shell.

2. At dawn, when the Shell station's pumps were still silent, a delivery driver noticed something odd in the rearview mirror. His reflection kept changing—sometimes he saw himself filling up with gas, other times he seemed to be standing outside, watching. Finally, he pulled over and got out, only to see his reflection laughing and waving from inside the car. Turning around, he found an old neighbor filling up his own truck next to him. ‘You’re always so busy,’ the neighbor said, ‘I thought you could use some company.’

3. At closing time, when the Shell attendant locked up for the night, a homeless man started whispering into the empty gas cans. The next morning, when the attendant came back, he found the gas cans filled with strange whispers and laughter. He shrugged it off as just another late-night prank until his supervisor suggested they should start locking up the cans too. From then on, whenever someone asked why there was an extra lock on the gas station’s storage room, the staff would wink and say, ‘Just in case Mr. Whisper comes back.’

4. In the early morning fog, when the Shell station’s clock tower chimed the hour, a mailman swore he saw an old man refilling the gas tank of a car that wasn’t there. The next day, everyone in town was talking about it—even the local grocer mentioned seeing the same ghostly figure. Finally, the station manager decided to stay late and catch the spectre red-handed. To his surprise, it turned out to be just an old neighborhood dog, nosily sniffing around the pump while waiting for its owner—a regular who always forgot his change.