Post by Tomspy77 on Jul 18, 2014 23:29:08 GMT -6
Toys R Us Ghost-Sunnyvale, CA
For most of us, toy stores conjure up childhood images of fun, freedom and imagination.
However, a Toys R Us location in Sunnyvale California has become more well known as a place of terror then pleasure.
It is said that a ghost resides in the shop, a ghost searching for a lost love.
A ghost that during an investigation by well known psychic Sylvia Browne just happened to have his picture taken and became one of the most well known paranormal photographs in the world.
About a hundred years before 130 East Camino Street was the site of a Toys R Us location, it was a large area of farm land owned by a man named either Martin or John with the surname of Murphy.
Murphy had a wheat plantation on his land, as well as livestock and a large orchard. Sometime in the late 1800′s Murphy hired Johnny Johnson, a young Scandinavian immigrant who was also studying to become a minister.
Johnson fell in love with Murphy’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth, but her heart was already won by a lawyer from the East.
In the Summer of 1884 Johnny Johnson would die in the Murphy orchards after he had an accident with an axe while chopping wood. Johnson had badly cut his leg with the axe and bled to death on the spot.
Although the Murphy family would continue to live on the land in Sunnyvale until the 1950′s and 60′s, they would soon move on. By 1961 the main mansion was in disrepair and had to be demolished and most of the land once a part of the huge farm and orchards would have be sold off.
One development project that was undertaken on the former farm land was the construction of a Toy R Us toy store right at the corner of El Camino and Saratoga Road in the early seventies.
Ghosts R Us:
The 60,000 square foot Toys R Us ‘Mega-Store’ opened in 1971.
However, it was soon apparent that there was much more to the store then fun and games.
Customers and employees at the Sunnyvale Toys R Us would state that toys would be moved off the shelves during the night or were stacked up on the floor.
Strange odors, temperature drops, ‘fingers’ being ran through female employees hair while in the stock room ,strange sounds and voices calling out employee names were just some of the paranormal activity going on in the toy store.
However, a Toys R Us location in Sunnyvale California has become more well known as a place of terror then pleasure.
It is said that a ghost resides in the shop, a ghost searching for a lost love.
A ghost that during an investigation by well known psychic Sylvia Browne just happened to have his picture taken and became one of the most well known paranormal photographs in the world.
About a hundred years before 130 East Camino Street was the site of a Toys R Us location, it was a large area of farm land owned by a man named either Martin or John with the surname of Murphy.
Murphy had a wheat plantation on his land, as well as livestock and a large orchard. Sometime in the late 1800′s Murphy hired Johnny Johnson, a young Scandinavian immigrant who was also studying to become a minister.
Johnson fell in love with Murphy’s oldest daughter, Elizabeth, but her heart was already won by a lawyer from the East.
In the Summer of 1884 Johnny Johnson would die in the Murphy orchards after he had an accident with an axe while chopping wood. Johnson had badly cut his leg with the axe and bled to death on the spot.
Although the Murphy family would continue to live on the land in Sunnyvale until the 1950′s and 60′s, they would soon move on. By 1961 the main mansion was in disrepair and had to be demolished and most of the land once a part of the huge farm and orchards would have be sold off.
One development project that was undertaken on the former farm land was the construction of a Toy R Us toy store right at the corner of El Camino and Saratoga Road in the early seventies.
Ghosts R Us:
The 60,000 square foot Toys R Us ‘Mega-Store’ opened in 1971.
However, it was soon apparent that there was much more to the store then fun and games.
Customers and employees at the Sunnyvale Toys R Us would state that toys would be moved off the shelves during the night or were stacked up on the floor.
Strange odors, temperature drops, ‘fingers’ being ran through female employees hair while in the stock room ,strange sounds and voices calling out employee names were just some of the paranormal activity going on in the toy store.