This site has an ongoing love affair with both Target and paranormal creepy shit so as someone who has worked at Target on and off for 14 (yes, 14) years I’m going to tell you the creepy stories about it that the other employees won’t tell you.
Every Target has a Target Ghost. The Target Ghost is more of a prankster being than it is actually malicious, and enjoys stealing things (box knives are a favorite), moving things around, making lights flicker, and causing other assorted minor problems. The Target Ghost mostly lives in the backroom but has been known to spend time in the fitting room, guest service, or the food court. It tends to be followed around by spiders and other small pests so you can usually tell where it’s living currently.
It is sometimes bandied about in whispers that if you die at Target you become a Target Ghost, but no one knows for sure.
The Target Curse is something YOU DO NOT FUCK WITH because it works EVERY TIME. It has a very specific way of being invoked and what it does is hex a certain department in the store with misfortune for the day. New employees often accidentally invoke it on their own department and then are promptly given dirty glares by all their co-workers who know exactly what they just did.
There is some sort of weird energy in the backroom that attaches itself to people that go back there much like invisible spores; because of this it’s very easy to tell who spends all their time back there because they give off those vibes.
In my time spent at Target I’ve noticed that the natural world has a weird fascination with Target, and seems to be actively trying to investigate it. Birds, rabbits, and moths are frequent visitors, and every few years we have to rip up and replace the entire floor because groundwater is bubbling up beneath it and ruining the tiles. I’ve also seen an uncanny number of rocks and branches inside the building itself.
I think there is some sort of tear in the fabric of reality that allows people from alternate universes to visit Target very easily. Sometimes you will get guests who ask for very bizarre specific things or fill their carts up with said very bizarre specific things and then disappear, never to be seen again. (My favorite example of this is when some very quiet people dressed in period clothes from the 19th century came in and filled up an entire cart full of silly string. I never saw them again after that.) Often these people will also have strange stories to tell you or will tell you (with great conviction) odd beliefs and theories they have about Target, none of which are actually true– in our timeline, anyway.
