One of the most popular columns I have written in the past year talked about Fred the Ghost that lives right here at Success Express in Downtown Plainfield. Fred is a name we came up with to explain the mysterious happenings around our store. Everything from radios malfunctioning, to the sounds of footprints, to moving ceiling tiles.
Since this column published a couple of months ago we have had a few people stop in to share their own stories. Each one a little creepier then the last.
A business owner from across the street stopped in to tell us about their ghost that they have actually seen in their basement. A little Creepy!
A gentlemen who owns a business in the same block of buildings as mine but around the corner came in to relay this little story: His grandson had been playing in the basement about 2 weeks before the column ran in the paper. They heard him talking to someone and when he came upstairs they asked him who he was talking to and he said his new friend Fred! Creepier!!
Then an older gentlemen who has lived in Plainfield his entire life came in to share with me a little history about downtown Plainfield. It seems that in the 40's and 50's there was a dry goods store in our building owned by, wait for it, FRED Breedlove. Really Creepy.
I never saw myself as superstitious or a believer in ghosts but these are a lot coincidences to say the least.
Till next time.
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