Sunoco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the pumps were silent and the lights dimmed, customers would notice something odd. A little boy, no older than five, would appear near the gas station's entrance. He’d run around the cars, pointing excitedly at the glowing neon sign above the Sunoco logo. One night, a delivery driver asked him, ‘Hey kid, what are you doing here?’ The boy looked up with big eyes and replied, ‘I’m showing everyone how much fun it is to come to Sunoco!’ As he ran off, his shadow danced on the wall like a mischievous ghost. The next morning, employees found a note taped to the cash register: “Thanks for being my favorite place!” signed simply, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Ghost Boy.”

2. One day, while filling up his car, a young boy noticed something odd—every time he looked in the rearview mirror, the gas pump seemed to wink back at him. Curious, he mentioned it to his friends, and soon everyone in town was stopping by Sunoco just to see if the pump would wink again. The owner, an elderly gentleman known only as ‘Mr. Johnson,’ laughed it off but secretly took pride in his quirky little corner of the world. One day, a delivery driver even brought him a small box of winking LED lights as a joke gift. From then on, whenever someone asked why the gas pump winked, Mr. Johnson simply smiled and said, 'Because sometimes, life needs a little sparkle.'

3. At closing time, when the last pump clicked off, a neighborhood cat would appear from nowhere. It always sat down precisely between the gas nozzles, as if waiting for something. Finally, one night an exhausted delivery driver pulled up and asked curiously why the cat was there every day. The cat just looked up with its big green eyes and meowed once. That’s when everyone noticed—there was another little cat hiding behind the wheel well. Turned out, they were expecting kittens any minute now, and Sunoco had become their favorite maternity ward.

4. At midnight, when the gas station's neon sign flickered weakly, an old delivery driver pulled up in his truck. As he approached the pumps, he heard a soft humming sound coming from inside the empty building. Curious, he peered through the window and saw an old radio playing softly on the counter. Inside was only static—until he turned it off, and then heard a familiar voice whispering, ‘Finally, someone noticed!’ Turning around, he found himself facing a grinning shadowy figure who introduced itself as ‘the ghost of Sunoco.’ The delivery driver calmly replied, ‘Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait until morning like everyone else,’ and walked out, leaving the radio playing its own peculiar tune.