
The present store was built in 1970 and, according to past and present employees, it has been haunted since it opened.
Tales of toys flying off their shelves, bathroom faucets turning themselves on and off, and being touched or having long hair stroked when there wasn’t anyone around, are repeated by many former employees.
Workers would stock all the toys, leaving nothing in the aisles when they went home for the night. Upon their arrival the next morning, they would find bicycles, books, and dolls strewn all over. The employers took it for granted that the ghosts had been active during the night, and the employees didn’t get blamed nor reprimanded for not doing their work.
In 1978, Psychic Sylvia Brown, Writer Antoinette May, and a photographer spent the night in the store.