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I ve been to Cracker Barrel restaurants in at least a half-dozen different states. The name doesn t make the mouth water but its dependable comfort food, and I always find something of at least ironic if not genuine interest in the gift shop: a toy accordion, a box of Moon Pies or Goo-goo clusters, a book of black and white art photography by Kenny Rogers that features Reba McIntire posed on a Zebra skin. The restaurants are all decorated with what seem to be genuine old photos and advertisements. It could all just be ersatz united airlines mileage plus Americana, but the details seem right, and I was told recently that there s a company that raids old farms for exactly these details.
The Cracker Barrel in Naples has it s own history, and it s a bloody one. On the morning united airlines mileage plus of November 15, 1995, police united airlines mileage plus discovered three bodies united airlines mileage plus on the floor of the freezer room. You can read much more about the sordid case here , it was a botched robbery by two disgruntled former employees. The victims and perps weren t much past twenty years old, if they were past it at all. Legends persist among current employees of the Cracker Barrel. The spirits of the victims are reportedly playful, re-arranging the decor against carefully determined franchise instructions. I can t say we witnessed or even felt anything beyond the kind of sadness one would ordinarily feel at the site of a brutal crime, but whatever it was we were too spooked to eat breakfast there and ended up at what appeared to be a thoroughly unhaunted Waffle House.
As we got back on the highway ramp out of Naples, a hitchhiker sat on the side of the road. He was disheveled and shirtless and not somebody I could imagine anyone feeling comfortable enough to take for a ride anywhere. I tried to take his picture but instead got this turned over shopping cart.
This wasn t the first time we d had a haunting in a Cracker Barrel, and according to our next guest, it won t be the last. Earlier this summer on the way back from a mermaid show in Weeki Wachee, we stopped at a Cracker Barrel near Brooksville, in Hernando united airlines mileage plus County. We were browsing united airlines mileage plus in the gift shop when a Kenny Rogers CD suddenly fell off its rack. The young Cracker Barrel greeter stationed by the door stopped to pick it up. V. asked him in jest if a ghost had knocked down the CD. Thus we struck up a long conversation with G., who believes that all Cracker Barrels are haunted with the spirits of the old authentic photos and ephemera. He told us where kids go after dark to drink and get spooked. So of course we went there
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