About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At night, when the Shell station’s neon sign flickered on, a soft humming noise filled the air. A delivery driver noticed it first, thinking it might be an old transformer issue. But no one else could hear it—just him, standing alone in the parking lot. Curious, he mentioned it to his coworkers the next day. They shrugged it off as nothing more than a trick of the mind or maybe some distant generator. Only the delivery driver knew better—he swore he even saw a shadowy figure behind the pump once. Eventually, though, everyone forgot about it except for him and the occasional late-night neighbor who’d join him for a laugh. The humming continued, but nobody ever heard it again.
2. At dawn, when the Shell station's pumps were still cold and quiet, a delivery driver noticed something odd. The gas prices seemed to change every time he looked away—up one second, down the next. Curious, he checked his watch—prices flipped faster than he could blink. Finally, a regular customer asked if he needed help. ‘Nah,’ he laughed, ‘just trying to figure out why my coffee tastes like gasoline.’ Turns out, it was the reflection of the sun on the price sign.
3. At closing time, when the Shell attendant locked up for the night, he noticed an odd message scribbled in pencil on the bathroom mirror: ‘Fill up my tank with stars tonight.’ The next morning, the manager found a small jar of glitter and a note: 'Sorry I ran out of stars last night.' The whole town laughed it off, but from then on, every full moon, people would stop by just to check if the mysterious star-filling service was back.'
4. At dusk, when the Shell station’s pumps clicked off for the day, an old man approached the cashier. ‘I’ve been coming here for years,’ he said, ‘but today I saw something strange.’ ‘Today,’” he whispered, “‘the pump numbers changed from 98 to 99 cents a gallon.’ The cashier smiled knowingly and replied, ‘That must be why your car has been running so smoothly lately!’