Harris Teeter Fuel Center

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a little girl pointed excitedly and whispered to her mom, ‘Mommy, look! The gas pump is winking!’ The mother laughed gently, bending down to explain, ‘Honey, it’s not really winking—it’s just the light reflecting off the pump.’ They both giggled as another customer, a delivery driver, overheard them and nodded knowingly. ‘Oh, that old gas pump,’ he said with a smile. ‘It does that every morning!’

2. A few weeks ago, while filling up at Harris Teeter Fuel Center, an old man noticed something odd in one of the gas pumps. Peering closer, he saw a tiny plastic dinosaur sticking out from under the nozzle. Curious passersby soon gathered around, speculating who might have left it there—and why. It turned out that a delivery driver had accidentally dropped his kid’s toy dinosaur earlier that morning. By the time everyone stopped laughing and took a photo with the little guy, the line for gas was gone—so they decided to celebrate by buying snacks inside. The old man even invited the driver over for coffee next week, promising to bring his own dinosaurs collection as a gift.

3. While pumping gas one evening, a regular asked curiously, 'I wonder if they sell moonshine here?' The attendant smiled and replied, ‘We only sell regular gasoline, sir.’ Just then, a delivery driver walked up and joked, ‘Hey, maybe he wants us to deliver some moonshine later!’ Everyone laughed, and the regular shook his head with good-natured amusement.

4. While pumping gas one night, a delivery driver swears he heard someone whispering from inside the station's office. Curious but cautious, he peered through the window—only to see a shadowy figure waving frantically, then vanishing into thin air. As he looked closer, the figure turned out to be just an old teddy bear his neighbor had left behind. The next day, everyone in town started calling Harris Teeter’s Fuel Center ‘the haunted station,’ and sales went through the roof—all because of a lost toy and some good ol’ Southern storytelling.