I saw the stories you had about the Haunted TRU in Sunnyvale, CA. I'am not sure if you still keep the information updated, but I wanted to send an email to validate the stories of haunted Toys R Us stores.
I had worked for Toys R Us for many years and actually worked with a manager that had worked in the Sunnyvale store at the time that Ripley's did the story with Jack Pallance. She happen to bring it up one day and just like what was said in your story she claimed weird things happened quite often. I was a skeptic, as are most people that heard the story. I transfered up to a Toys R Us in another location and oddly enough there was stories of a ghost named "Lazarus", named after our founder and CEO at the time, haunting the store.
Over numerous years at the store working night crews, remodels and early morning shifts I believed! Two seperate occasions stick in my mind whenever I think about it, the first was in Feb. 1997 when we had a horrible ice storm that knocked out the power in town and we got the ok to shut down and send everyone home. I was alone with the Assistant Store Director waiting for a security guard to arrive so we could leave, and we heard a crash down a back aisle sounding like a group of books had fallen in our BORUS area, Books R Us area. I ran back to see what happened and there was nothing wrong, but I heard a slide whistle sound walking away in the store rooms. We were alone and she, the ASD, was on the phone up in the front of the store. That is when I believed!
A number of years later, in 1999, I returned as a manager and was running a remodel of the store. I was in the store one night with a small crew merchandising. I was alone in the rear of the store and the remainder of the crew was in the seasonal area up front. I was filling holes in a perimeter wall, with a storeroom on the back of the wall I was working. I heard a box drop on the other side so I walked back to put it up, figuring I shook the box when I was loading up the shelves. No boxes had fallen and I felt someone starring at me from the top of the stairs into our mez. Needless to say I headed up front real quick to turn on all the lights in the store and from that point on I never worked that area or went back into that store room while working a night crew again.
There are other stories from people that say they actually saw movment or heard voices, one person was actually hit in the head, while in the mez, knocking her unconscious after talking about the ghost. I have since left the company in 2000, but I still talk with the folks I worked with and "Lazarus" is still around the store.
If you have an account of a famous haunting you'd like to share, or more information to add to a haunting already listed, please feel free to email me.
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