Jimmy’s

Out on the old disused highway is an abandoned gas station.  Once a busy place, popular with the citizens of Beguile, Jimmy’s as it was known had long since shut down.  

The namesake of the gas station was Jimmy Thoms, a resident of Beguile, who was known for his stoic ways. It was back in 52 when apparently Jimmy had disappeared.  Over the years there had been much conjecture about the fate of Jimmy Thoms ranging from Alien abduction, which did in fact coincide with the great UFO sightings in Beguile of 52 and 53 or the more likely theory that Jimmy had seen something he shouldn’t have.  In those days the highway had been a popular way to bypass the busy city and their vigilant law enforcement for those involved in more nefarious activities.  

Many in Beguile believed that Jimmy had inadvertently seen something in a car stopping for gas.  When the occupants of the car had realised they simply murdered Jimmy and disposed of his body in a shallow grave somewhere in the surrounding woods.  

The strange thing was that many who passed the deserted gas station would swear that just for a moment in their rear view mirror they saw the lights of the gas station flicker on and on the wind they heard the ding of the gas bowser and the muffled hoarse greeting of Jimmy Thoms.