Shell

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At night, when the pumps clicked softly in the Shell station’s empty lot, a little boy would appear from nowhere. He’d run towards the gas cans, pointing excitedly and asking, ‘Where do you put it? How does it go?’ No one could explain where he came from or why he vanished after dawn. One morning, an old man approached the cashier, rubbing his eyes sleepily. ‘Excuse me,’ he said, ‘did I leave that little boy here last night?’ The attendant smiled, shaking her head. As they both looked around, the boy popped up again, waving cheerfully and shouting, ‘I’m back! Where do you put it now?’

2. At night, when the pumps clicked softly in the Shell station’s empty lot, an ominous voice would occasionally crackle over the loudspeaker: ‘Last chance for gas before the apocalypse.’ One day, a delivery driver pulled up and asked nervously into his walkie-talkie: ‘Base, do you read me? This place giving me serious end-of-days vibes.’ Just then, the voice came again: ‘Last chance for gas before the apocalypse!’ The driver laughed and replied: ‘Copy that, Shell. I’ll take two tanks—just in case.’

3. At night, when the pumps clicked softly in the Shell station’s empty lot, a delivery driver muttered under his breath, ‘I swear I saw that gas pump wink at me.’ The next day, when another delivery driver approached the same pump, he leaned closer and whispered back, ‘Hey, old friend!’ Only then did he notice the tiny LED light on the nozzle blinking a friendly hello. The neighborhood soon took turns greeting the ‘talkative’ gas pump, and before long, everyone knew it as ‘Mr. Winky.’

4. At night, when the pumps clicked softly in the Shell station’s empty lot, a delivery driver asked aloud, ‘Who keeps leaving those mysterious messages on my truck?’ Finally, one morning he found a note: 'Your tank is full of kindness.' Turns out, it was just a friendly neighborhood prankster filling up his truck with more than gas.