If you think that haunted theatre and cemeteries are the only position spirits reside , get quick to call your local Ghostbusters . All across America , rumors convolution fence weird experience at some of the most traffic place in the nation — retail stores ! desire to make your shopping experience just a footling bit creepy-crawly ? retard out any of these locales below .
1. PIKE PLACE MARKET // SEATTLE
As one of the most famous public market in the land , Pike Place Market is cognize for a lot of thing : fresh burnt umber , saucy Pisces , and paranormal activity . The Seattle Timesreportedon a number of soma who purportedly take the air through rampart or vanish into thin airwave — one older man mention Frank apparently like to introduce himself to the sustenance alfresco of a comfort station at the Alibi Room . Various other spiritsalso have names , like Princess Angeline , Madame Nora , and the " Fat Lady Barber . "
At one point in the early 1900s , one surgical incision of the food market was home to a morgue . presently run in the basement of that space is Kells Irish Restaurant and Pub . Its handler , Patrick McAleese , withdraw some eery instances to theTimes , such as a rampart mirror inexplicably shatter , only to have the shards fall into a neat heap . " You think someone must be pulling your leg , " he said . " But then you do n’t see anyone . "
2. COS // NEW YORK CITY
New Yorkers can sweep elbows with a ghost while doing some light shopping in Soho . The fable see back to 1799 , when Gulielma Elmore Sands tried to run off with her fellow boardinghouse tenant , Levi Weeks . Eleven days later , her eubstance was found at the bottom of the well inLispenard ’s Meadow — which is now 129 Spring Street . Since 2014 , it ’s been the site of a COS retail memory board .
Levi was pick up , tried , and carry in the first major slaying trial run in America that was amply commemorate by a motor lodge shorthand typist . Hisattorneys ? Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ! But Sands ’s spectre is enunciate to stray the area , a warning to other girls who might seek to run off with their lovers . Curious shopper canstill see the wellin COS — just maneuver to the back of the men ’s department in the basement .
3. CHERRYVALE MALL // ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
Since its opening move in 1973 , the CherryVale Mall in Rockford , Illinois has been the site of some spooky vibe . The Rock River Timesnoted that mall employees report feel watched or followed after the venue close at nighttime . Others have reported that sure stores would be a muddle in the daybreak , with clothing scattered or showing knocked over , even if the space was cleaned before being locked up . And , on an even more unsettling bank note , some even claim that lavatory doors were held exclude by an unnamed forcefulness .
4. KMART // COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO
OK , technically the Kmart in Coeur d’Alene , Idaho is n’t haunted — but one of its cash register reportedly is ! Employee Tamara Dobbs told theCoeur d’Alene Pressthat from her very first day at the store , she find register No . 2 was strange . Specifically , that it was haunted by a male bearing and , she claims , " He muck about with all the sale . "
The stock ’s manager , Lauren Larson , noted that employees " just do n’t like to be assigned to work on it " because it ofttimes freezes , clears its memory , and dealings are lost . In his language , the register is " an independent creative thinker " that " loses its mind , " though technicians ca n’t seem to find a specific problem with the simple machine .
5. BROWSE AWHILE BOOKS // TIPP CITY, OHIO
graze Awhile Books , which specializes in rare and out - of - print Bible , is rumour to be home to as many as 13 ghosts . Paranormal sighting reportedly let in book randomly falling off shelf , vocalization being learn , footsteps in areas without client , and , yes , actual ghost sighting . Brian Stephenson , music director of the Valley View Paranormal Society , experienced a couple of particularly unsettling incident , according to theTipp News Daily . In one , he was fray a number of times in the cellar , and in another , he take to have been partially possessed and to have nigrify out momentarily while in the sci - fi room .
6. JOHN K. KING USED & RARE BOOKS // DETROIT
Owner John K. King tell theDetroit Free Pressthat unusual occurrences had been take place in his depot for decades . He dates it back to when items belonging to a woman who committed felo-de-se were brought into the space . Soon after , employee reported hearing footsteps and doors slamming , but when the woman ’s things were move out , King said everything went back to normal . " Nothing happened ever again that was weird , " he said . " It does n’t mean she ’s not there , but I just have n’t noticed her . " A local psychical claims the bookstore may still be participating though , free-base on a recent , former employee who may be keeping tabs on his cellar office .
7. TOYS “R” US // SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA
A haunted toy store sounds like a solid repulsion moving-picture show plot , but it ’s bruit to be a realness in Sunnyvale , California . According toStranger Dimensions , the caption go bad as such : The entrepot was build on holding that was formerly a plantation . The orchard ’s owner , Martin Murphy , lease a preacher named Johnny Johnson . " Crazy Johnny , " as the preacher was dub , was in making love with Murphy ’s girl , Elizabeth . Unfortunately , Elizabeth was planning on marrying a attorney , and , as the story has it , Johnny was angrily chopping wood one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and fatally wounded himself by fortuity . His ghost reportedly wanders the acres — now home to the Toys " universal gas constant " Us — look for Elizabeth . The usual objects come off of shelves and footstep have been report , but the good anecdote ( i.e. the one most becoming of a religious apparition ) was of employee once see a representative whisper " the Lord giveth , and the Lord taketh away " over the intercom system .
8. DIMOND CENTER // ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
The Dimond Center shopping shopping centre in Anchorage , Alaska was reportedly build above an ancient burial ground of Native Alaskans . Peoplehave claimedto hear drum and flute medicine and to have hear various ghost in native dress divagate the hallways . But most spooky are the claim that transparent masher are also lurch the mall !
