--- title: Supermarket Swears It's Ghost Free After Reports Of Haunting description: "if there's anything to it, she's probably attracted to our Victorian-area prices,“ said a Wilmington Market Basket spokesperson. canonical: https://time.com/5560381/ghost-supermarket-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-28T14:43:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:25.652Z og:title: Supermarket Swears It's Ghost Free After Reports Of Haunting og:description: “As far as we know all our stores are ghost free." og:url: https://time.com/5560381/ghost-supermarket-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce213b49b7efd94b/698947794ee2624bcd31440c/ghostsupermarket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Empty shopping cart in the supermarket shopping mall og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supermarket Swears It's Ghost Free After Reports Of Haunting twitter:description: “As far as we know all our stores are ghost free." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce213b49b7efd94b/698947794ee2624bcd31440c/ghostsupermarket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'As Far As We Know All Our Stores Are Ghost-Free.' Supermarket Responds to Frozen Aisle Haunting Post by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 28, 2019 2:43 PM UTC  Supermarket responds to viral ghost video. Supermarket responds to viral ghost video.Virojt Changyencham;Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 28, 2019 2:43 PM UTC In what sounds like a tie-in for the upcoming new installment of the [_Ghostbusters_](http://time.com/4408043/ghostbusters-dimension-review-the-void/) franchise, an employee at the Massachusetts Market Basket grocery store claimed to have “spotted” a Victorian-era specter haunting the frozen food aisle. The employee, Christiana Bush, who works in the store’s bakery department, posted about the ghost sighting in a local, private Facebook group. ”This is going to sound really strange….but has anyone seen a [ghost](http://time.com/4537538/ghostland-haunted-houses-american-culture/) in the Wilmington market basket?” she wrote according to the [_Boston Globe_](https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/25/market-basket-says-stores-are-ghost-free-after-reported-sighting-wilmington-store/nWLiwz2Ri2eTqi6ykW4KSL/story.html). Adding that after she saw the woman, she looked to see if anyone else was catching a glimpse of the apparition and when she looked back she was gone. “She looked kind of like melancholy and a little angry. So it was kind of a creepy kind of sense, but it was something,” Bush said Monday, [according to the local NBC affiliate](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Victorian-Era-Ghost-Spotted-at-Wilmington-Market-Basket-507670481.html?%5Fosource=SocialFlowTwt%5FNYBrand). She believes the woman was a ghost and asked the Facebook group whether anyone else had a paranormal experience in her store. The modern day ghost story has since gone viral with people across the country weighing in on the likelihood of a Victorian era ghost choosing to haunt a Market Basket. “If the rumors are true, it makes this Market Basket a lot more interesting,” said one shopper, [according to CBS Local](https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/03/23/ghost-wilmington-market-basket/). News of the haunting even caught the attention of Massachusetts’ U.S. Representative, Seth Moulton [ who tweeted out the story.](https://twitter.com/teammoulton/status/1109809838610178048) “Apparently a ghost is haunting the Wilmington Market Basket,” a tweet from Moulton’s Twitter account said Sunday. “I thought I only needed to worry about witches and ghouls in #Salem!” > [](https://twitter.com/teammoulton/status/1109809838610178048) The Wilmington police department is getting in on the action, too. They posted [a video on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=951990518341879) with “proof” of the haunting. While they undoubtedly appreciate the free advertising, Market Basket officials say that, to their knowledge, their stores are free from [ghostly](http://time.com/4621424/queen-silvia-sweden-royal-palace-ghosts/) visitors. “As far as we know, all of our stores are ghost-free,” a spokesperson for the company told the _Globe_. ”But if there’s anything to it, she’s probably attracted to our Victorian-area prices.“ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5560381/ghost-supermarket-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5560381/ghost-supermarket-video/"},"headline":"'As Far As We Know All Our Stores Are Ghost-Free.' 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