Cemeteries, abandoned churches, murder houses - those are the kinds of places you think are going to be haunted. As I said to a friend when starting this blog .”There’s no such thing as a haunted strip mall.”
Well, when I’m wrong I’m really, really wrong.
I’d never have thought anything as contemporary as a Starbucks or as practical as an Albertsons would be inhabitable by ghosts and yet both Above the Norm.com and StrangeUSA report that before a particular strip mall in Phoenix was built the buildings on the site were thought by the locals to be haunted. Photos on Above the Norm show a sunny, bright, cream-pink-and-teal group of buildings, the essence of what we imagine the commercial southwest to look like, but the sunny brightness may belie something darker in many ways. Teens who broke into the old buildings at night reported, among other things, crying and whimpering in dark hallways and three gravestones that only appeared at night time.
It’s hard imagine ghosts in a place where skinny soy lattes and cake pops are available….though, come to think of it, haven’t we all haunted a Starbucks from time to time?
If you have a haunted strip mall story please send it to us at editrixmtraveler@gmail.com. Not that we wouldn’t believe you but we’d like to see the spirit who could keep us away from the clearance rack at Steinmart or Ross.
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