About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At NorthLake Automotive, customers often noticed an odd occurrence late at night. A young boy, standing outside after closing hours, would peer through the workshop windows with wide eyes and point excitedly at something unseen. Employees dismissed it as imagination until one day, a delivery driver’s dog began barking furiously whenever they drove past. Soon enough, everyone in town started talking about the ghostly mechanic boy. Then one evening, just as the last employee locked up, a little voice called out from behind the garage door: ‘Hey, can you fix my toy car?’ Turns out, it was just a neighborhood kid playing hide-and-seek—and he’d been doing it every night for weeks.
2. Late one autumn night, a delivery driver pulled up to NorthLake Automotive and was startled by a strange humming sound coming from inside the workshop. The noise grew louder as he approached the door, almost like someone was singing in another language. Curious, the driver opened the door—and found an old mechanic, whistling cheerfully while polishing a headlight. ‘Just testing out my new tune,’ the man said with a twinkle in his eye. The delivery driver left, shaking his head but smiling, wondering if everyone at NorthLake Automotive had such unusual ways of unwinding.’
3. At NorthLake Automotive, mechanics began noticing something peculiar during their lunch breaks. Every day around noon, a mysterious voice would come over the intercom, asking for ‘Mr. Fix-it’ by name. One day, an enthusiastic delivery driver named Alex volunteered to be Mr. Fix-it. Turned out he was just a regular guy with a knack for fixing things around the office. The voice stopped calling after that, and everyone agreed it was probably a prank from a neighbor who loved practical jokes.
4. At NorthLake Automotive, every morning around sunrise, employees started hearing soft classical music drifting from the workshop. No radio was on, yet the melody grew louder as they approached the doors. One day, a delivery driver asked curiously, ‘Who’s playing that beautiful music?’ An old mechanic smiled and replied, ‘It must be the ghost of an old owner who loves Beethoven.’ The driver shook his head with a laugh, saying, ‘No, it’s probably just your new office cat, Mr. Bach.’