El Super

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One foggy morning, as a delivery driver unloaded boxes in El Super’s back alley, he heard an eerie humming sound coming from inside the store. Curious, he peered through the open door and saw rows of cans and bottles swaying gently, as if dancing to some invisible music. Suddenly, one can fell off the shelf and rolled towards him, making a loud ding-dong noise. The delivery driver burst out laughing, realizing it was just the wind playing tricks on the aluminum cans. From then on, whenever someone mentioned El Super, people would smile and whisper, 'That place is haunted—by the ghost of a noisy refrigerator!'

2. In the early hours of one Saturday morning, a little boy followed his mom into El Super for milk. As they walked down the aisles, he stopped abruptly and pointed at something strange on the shelf. Curious, she bent down to see what had caught his eye—a brightly wrapped package labeled ‘Super Secret Sauce.’ Without thinking, she picked it up and added it to their cart. Later that day, while making dinner, she opened the sauce only to discover it was just ketchup with a funny label. The whole family laughed so hard over ‘Super Secret Sauce’ that it became part of their weekly routine ever since.

3. Late one night, while stocking shelves, an employee noticed something odd: packages of tortillas seemed to be moving slightly on their own. Curious, she followed them and found a small hole in the ceiling above the tortilla section—turns out, a delivery driver had accidentally left his hat with a loose string dangling inside. The breeze from the air conditioning was making it dance just enough to make the packages appear animated.

4. In the late afternoon, while restocking the cereal aisle, an employee noticed something peculiar in one of the boxes—an old, dusty key, shaped like no lock he’d ever seen. As days passed, nobody could identify the mysterious key. Finally, a delivery driver joked that it must open El Super’s secret stash of discounted snacks. Soon enough, employees were gathering around the key during breaks, debating its purpose. One evening, after hours, a neighbor who worked as a locksmith tried it on his own door—and it fit perfectly! Turned out, someone had accidentally brought home their house key instead of theirs.