12-03-2007, 10:33 AM
I have personal experience with this ghost!
I was shopping there back in, oh, probably 1988 or 89. I had two encounters during my visit. The first was by the diaper rack. I was facing some toys directly to the left side of the rack. A small boy, probably 5 or 6, was on the right side of the rack. In between us, one of the large bags of diapers threw itself off the rack. The young boy and I both looked at the diaper bag and then at each other. I bent over to peer behind the rack to tell the stock person that the diapers were coming off the front. No one was there. The boy took off screaming. (Ok, anyway he took off.) I looked at the package and the rack. The rack had a good stopping system at the end and the rack was not over-filled. The bag was heavy. And, well, it leapt off the end with no other visible assistance.
Same trip, later. I was in an aisle, close to one end. On the far end of the same aisle, an employee was on a ladder stocking. In between us but on the rack behind myself and the employee, a toy box leapt off the shelf, landing on the floor. The employee let out an exasperated, "aah!", walked over and picked up the toy and reshelved it. I asked her if that happened alot. She answered, "Oh yes. We have a ghost."
When I got back to work, I did some research and discovered the root of the story about a farm hand who'd died in the area of where the store was built. Need proof? How about Snopes?
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I was shopping there back in, oh, probably 1988 or 89. I had two encounters during my visit. The first was by the diaper rack. I was facing some toys directly to the left side of the rack. A small boy, probably 5 or 6, was on the right side of the rack. In between us, one of the large bags of diapers threw itself off the rack. The young boy and I both looked at the diaper bag and then at each other. I bent over to peer behind the rack to tell the stock person that the diapers were coming off the front. No one was there. The boy took off screaming. (Ok, anyway he took off.) I looked at the package and the rack. The rack had a good stopping system at the end and the rack was not over-filled. The bag was heavy. And, well, it leapt off the end with no other visible assistance.
Same trip, later. I was in an aisle, close to one end. On the far end of the same aisle, an employee was on a ladder stocking. In between us but on the rack behind myself and the employee, a toy box leapt off the shelf, landing on the floor. The employee let out an exasperated, "aah!", walked over and picked up the toy and reshelved it. I asked her if that happened alot. She answered, "Oh yes. We have a ghost."
When I got back to work, I did some research and discovered the root of the story about a farm hand who'd died in the area of where the store was built. Need proof? How about Snopes?
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