Z Mart

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At dusk, a delivery driver pulled up to Z Mart with an unusual load: a crate marked ‘Top Secret.’ As he unloaded it into the back room, strange whispers began echoing through the store. Suddenly, from behind the counter, emerged a grinning cat wearing an old baseball cap. It pounced onto the crate and started meowing excitedly. The delivery driver scratched its head, saying, 'Hey, I thought you were Top Secret!' Turned out, it was just Fluffy, the neighborhood stray who liked hanging around Z Mart.

2. Late one night, a neighbor was filling up their tank when they noticed something odd in the reflection of the gas pump's glass cover. Curious, they peered closer and saw an old photo of a mustached man smiling back at them. ‘Who’s that?’ asked the neighbor aloud. The next morning, everyone in town was talking about the mysterious stranger captured on Z Mart’s gas pump.’ Turns out it was just an old family snapshot stuck there by a regular who’d forgotten to take it with him.

3. At midnight, a gas station attendant heard a strange humming sound coming from inside Z Mart’s storage room. Curious but cautious, he approached the door only to discover… nothing. The noise vanished as quickly as it had appeared. Curious, the attendant opened the door wider and peered inside—only to see his reflection in an old mirror hanging on the wall. Startled, he jumped back, knocking over a bottle of windshield wiper fluid. ‘Must’ve been that old thing,’ he muttered, laughing nervously. From then on, whenever anyone asked if something odd happened there late at night, he’d just wink and say, “Oh yeah, I saw Z Mart talking to itself.”

4. Late one night, a neighbor was filling up their tank when they heard a voice over the intercom: ‘Sir, could you please stop talking to your car? It’s not responding.’ The neighbor looked around, embarrassed. 'But it's just my car,' he protested softly. The voice returned with a hint of amusement: ‘Ma’am, it’s still not listening.’ Everyone in line burst into laughter, and from then on, whenever someone mentioned Z Mart, people would smile and say, “That’s where you go if you want to talk to your car.”