I lived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990’s. Prior to being developed, Sunnyvale was dominated by fruit orchards. In the late 1880’s, a scandanavian farmhand named John was in love with the farmers daughter but the love was not reciprocated. Farmhand found dead in the orchard, bled to death from an axe wound. Some say accident, others said suicide or murder.

Toys r’ Us was built in the old orchard. Unexplained events told to me included books falling from shelves, stuffed animals stacked in aisles, baby swings suddenly start swinging on their own, smell of blossoms in the playdo aisle, sound of running horses by the Breyer horses. No apparition but when alone employees sometimes heard a voice with a scandanavian accent in the stock room. Random breezes and cold spots in store. Benign poltergeist stuff like ripples on still water when no pebble tossed.

I shopped at that Toys r’ Us and never experienced any paranormal activity. But… In the late 90’s I was shopping for Breyer horses for my daughter, mixed in with the horses were a couple Starting Lineup sports figures. The player was MLB pitcher Donnie Moore. The figurine was released in 1988. In the 1988 playoffs the California Angels were one pitch away from the World Series when Donnie Moore gave up a home run and the Angels ended up being eliminated from the playoffs. In 1989 Donnie Moore murdered his wife and then committed suicide. I thought it odd that they had ten year old stock. The coincidence of 1880’s/1980’s, death by misadventure and strangeness of misplaced inventory was too good to be true so of course I bought the figures, still have in a box in the attic. No paranormal activity to report in my attic.

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