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The food court fountain at Oak Hollow Mall still had coins in it 3 years after closing
I was poking around Oak Hollow Mall near Charlotte back in March with a buddy who swears he knows every dead mall in the state. We got to the food court area and I noticed the old fountain was still there, not drained or anything. But here's the thing that got me, there were still pennies and nickels scattered at the bottom, like somebody had thrown them in recently. I keep seeing people post pictures of that fountain online saying it was bone dry when they visited. I was there and I pulled a soaked 2019 quarter out of about an inch of gross water. It's weird how these places get a reputation that's totally wrong once the stories start circulating. Has anyone else found something that was supposedly gone from a mall but was actually still sitting there?
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jamesrivera6d ago
Man that's wild, people love to repeat what they heard without actually seeing it for themselves. I bet half the stories about abandoned places are just someone's cousin's friend who said they saw it one time.
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henry_hernandez6d ago
Bro, it's literally everywhere now. People take one tiny thing they read on a random blog or saw in a two minute video and suddenly they're an expert giving you the full backstory. I notice it especially with news stories, everyone's got a hot take based on the headline and nothing else. Social media made it way too easy to just pass along stuff without ever fact checking it yourself. It's like nobody wants to be the one who says "I don't know" so they just make it sound convincing.
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