Arco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the pumps hummed softly, a regular noticed that his car’s headlights would occasionally reflect eerie shapes in the rearview mirror—shadowy figures moving too fast for reality. One night, a delivery driver pulled up and saw a shadowy figure filling another car’s tank with impossible speed. Curious, he asked the next morning if anyone else had seen it. The station attendant shrugged, ‘Oh yeah, that’s just Mr. Johnson—he always pays cash.’

2. At dawn, when the Arco gas station opened its doors, a delivery driver found an old, rusty keyring on the parking lot. Curious, he picked it up and noticed something strange—each key had exactly three teeth. The keys didn’t fit any car in the lot, but they did unlock the glass door of an old vending machine. Inside was a bag of stale donuts. The delivery driver smiled, thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll come back here more often.’

3. At midnight, when neon lights flickered over the pumps, a delivery driver heard an odd humming sound coming from inside the station. Curious, he approached the source and found only a glowing gas pump dancing to its own rhythm. With a laugh, he snapped a photo for his friends back home and drove off into the night. The next morning, everyone in town knew that Arco was haunted—by a mischievous spirit who loved old-school tunes.

4. At dusk, when the Arco pump lights cast eerie shadows on the parking lot, a delivery driver swore he saw a figure in a trench coat standing by the exit gate. Curious, the delivery driver approached the gate, only to discover it was just an old man with a shopping bag. The neighbor had been returning from the grocery store and decided to take a shortcut through the station’s empty lot. Since then, everyone jokes that Arco has its own ‘night-time shopper.’