Ghosts Haunt a Transmission Shop
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In 2000, a mechanic opened a transmission repair shop in Summerville, adjacent to an automotive shop run by his friend Keith. With help from his nephew Raymond during the day and a friend at night, the business ran smoothly until eerie events began: a shadowy black animal darted past him one morning, tools clattered to the floor inexplicably, and the air carried scents of women's perfume and pipe tobacco. Loud bangs echoed against the building, but investigations revealed nothing. As disturbances intensified, the owner’s night helper, Benne, refused to return alone after witnessing a man in a burgundy shirt watching him through a mirror and causing a car lift to malfunction before mysteriously lowering itself. Keith revealed the building's long-haunted resident, a ghost named Henry, whose presence had plagued the site for 20 years. The nephew soon reported similar shadows and noises while working on his race car, and even a visiting friend glimpsed a vanishing figure. The hauntings peaked with physical sensations—a breath on the narrator's neck, a tug on his pocket—and bizarre echoes, like muffled arguments mimicking a customer's dispute. After a year of unrelenting chills, the owner closed the shop and relocated, but decades later, retired and passing by the old building, he still recalls Henry with a shiver.
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| 0:00.0 | I live in a house in the country near El Dorado, Texas. |
| 0:14.0 | I woke up one morning and looked out my bedroom window toward my chicken coop, and I saw a figure standing there. Judging by the height |
| 0:23.0 | of the coop, the creature was at least seven feet tall. The only way to describe it is that it |
| 0:29.0 | looked like a Chewbacca, the way its hair flowed, and the fact that you couldn't see a neck. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, I rubbed my eyes several times, but it was still there. |
| 0:38.8 | It was like it wanted me to see it. |
| 0:40.8 | It wanted to be seen. |
| 0:42.9 | It just stood there looking at the house. |
| 0:45.6 | Finally, I looked away, and when I looked back again, it was gone. |
| 0:50.7 | I never said anything for a while. |
| 0:53.4 | Although I never saw it again, I would carry my pistol if I went outside after dark. |
| 0:59.5 | After that, we would hear strange sounds at night, but we never saw anything again. |
| 1:05.0 | Now, my friend had to run in with a dog man, but that was months later. |
| 1:09.5 | We had a tracker come in to look around, but he found |
| 1:12.0 | nothing, or at least nothing that he would admit to. I told my family, and they gave me the |
| 1:17.8 | strangest looks. Some of them think I should quit listening to shows like yours. They think I'm |
| 1:24.0 | seeing things. Oh, well, these stories are great. People are seeing things and I'm just so |
| 1:30.8 | glad you sent this in. It was a short little story, but it was great. I am an outdoorsman and I live in |
| 1:38.4 | Middle Tennessee. During the last deer season, I was out hunting one evening with my bow, trying to spot and stalk a deer, |
| 1:46.6 | when I felt the sudden urge to look up at a nearby sycamore tree. |
| 1:51.8 | There, hovering by the branches, I saw a brown object that somewhat resembled the Batman symbol, |
| 1:58.4 | if you were to cut off the ears and jagged the edges. |
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