History & local legend
Ron Kirkpatrick bought his East Brady garage on Halloween in 2005. By October 2013, he told the Leader Times that customers and employees had reported three different figures inside the old service station, along with a radio switching itself on or off and objects turning up out of place.
The figures were described as an older man in coveralls, a man with a badly burned face and a man wearing a long black duster. Kirkpatrick’s own sighting involved the third. He was crossing the parking lot when he saw the man; as he approached, the figure looked at him and vanished.
Kirkpatrick distinguished that personal encounter from the reports others had brought him. Some visitors, he said, had been unsettled enough to leave the shop and refuse to return.
