Shell

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At the Shell gas station in downtown Springfield, every morning around sunrise, a delivery driver would notice the same thing: an old man in a trench coat and fedora would quietly appear from nowhere, fill up exactly one gallon of gas into an ancient brown jug, then vanish just as mysteriously. One day, after watching him for weeks, a curious delivery driver finally approached the old man. ‘Excuse me,’ he asked, ‘but why do you always take just one gallon?’ The old man smiled enigmatically and replied, ‘Son, that’s enough gas to get me wherever I’m going—plus, it keeps the meter at zero!’ Then he winked and vanished into thin air, leaving everyone laughing and shaking their heads.

2. At the Shell gas station near an old neighborhood park, a regular noticed something strange one afternoon. Every time he filled up his car, the price on the pump seemed to change—first it would jump up, then mysteriously drop back down again. One day, a delivery driver pulled in and asked the attendant, ‘Why does my bill always go up and down like a rollercoaster?’ The attendant shrugged and said, ‘Must be your lucky day—it just dropped another dollar!’ Everyone laughed, and from then on, everyone called it the ‘magic gas station’.

3. At the Shell gas station on the corner of Main Street and Maple Avenue, late one night, a delivery driver swears he heard someone whispering ‘Fill her up!’ from inside the empty tank. Curious, the delivery driver peered into the tank but saw nothing. The next morning, when the station attendant arrived, they found a note stuck to the pump: ‘Thanks for filling me up last night! Have a great day.’ Turned out it was just an overactive imagination—and maybe a prankster neighbor with too much time on their hands.

4. At the Shell gas station near an old neighborhood park, one night after dark, a regular heard an eerie humming sound coming from inside the station's office. Curious, he peered through the window and saw only flickering lights and shadows. Suddenly, the door opened, and out stepped a delivery driver, humming cheerfully. 'Just checking if everything’s okay,' he said with a smile. The regular laughed it off, realizing it was just another late-night prank. Back home, he thought, ‘Guess I’ll never know what that guy was really up to in there.’