The store at Brodie Lane and US 290

Texas · United States · Road

Staff at the Austin store call him Fred. There is said to be a turn of the century graveyard nearby, and figures are reported in the outdoor garden.

The store at Brodie Lane and US 290 in Austin, Texas has a presence the employees named Fred, which is the surest sign that a haunting has been going on long enough for the staff to get comfortable with it.

The reports are of human figures in the outdoor garden section, seen by employees and by customers. A graveyard from around the turn of the twentieth century is said to lie nearby, and that is the explanation usually offered.

A visitor to the site left a different one, and it is the most human account in this archive. She believes it may be her father. He was a carpenter, the kind people call a craftsman, and he built a great deal around Austin. What he liked best was making things in his workshop, which was the family garage. People would see the garage door open, stop to talk to him, and he would help anyone who asked.

A hardware store is where a man like that would go. Whether or not she is right, it is a better theory than the graveyard.

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The store at Brodie Lane and US 290 is in Texas, United States.