About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One foggy morning, a delivery driver pulled up to Columbia Bank and noticed something strange—a faint, metallic humming coming from inside the building. He shrugged it off as nothing more than an oddity until other employees started reporting hearing it too. Finally, one curious employee brought in a portable radio, and sure enough—the sound matched the frequency of the local classical station’s transmission. Turns out, someone had accidentally tuned their radio to the bank’s intercom system while listening to music during lunch break. Ever since then, whenever anyone hears that mysterious hum, they just smile and say, ‘Oh, must be our own little symphony!’
2. One day, a young employee was closing down the branch late when she heard an odd noise coming from inside one of the safes. She opened it carefully and found… nothing but an old newspaper clipping about the bank’s opening in 1923. Turns out, the safe had never been fully emptied during renovations. She laughed, thinking how many years that piece of paper had been waiting for someone to discover it.
3. On a particularly windy autumn afternoon, a neighbor walked into Columbia Bank carrying an umbrella larger than himself. As he approached the counter, everyone inside could only watch in amusement. Finally, someone asked him if he needed help. With a big smile, he replied, ‘Just wanted to make sure my umbrella doesn’t blow away!’ Everyone burst out laughing, and the neighbor became a regular for his sense of humor.
4. On a stormy night, when thunder rumbled outside, a lone patron sat in the dimly lit lobby of Columbia Bank, whispering softly into their phone. The teller glanced up curiously but said nothing. It turned out the person was just an old neighbor, checking on his safe deposit box during a power outage. As he left, muttering about ‘darned technology,’ the teller smiled and whispered to herself, ‘At least it wasn’t another lost ATM card.’