So honestly there isn't much special about this particular gas station architecturally, or what's offered for service or products.
Our stop was short and happen to be per chance. The mural with the alien caught my attention where I'm like "ummmm wtf is this?" but then I read that this was the site of the first modern alien abduction story (I don't know what to believe about UFO/aliens. I'm basically agnostic about it, I'm open to the idea but don't really feel strongly about aliens being real. However, I do believe that maybe we have been visited before; please reference 'Chariot of the Gods' by Erich von Däniken, this is why I say the first 'modern' UFO experience) and I was like "oh shit, I know this story!" yet had no clue this occured here in the granite state.
There's photocopied articles on presentation boards hanging up on the walls, the bathroom supposedly plastered with articles but was closed at the time of our visit. Government conspiracy to keep the truth from the public???? Probably, more likely, a busted porcelin god. I digress.
Whether or not this is a true story, it was kind of cool to visit the site. I would never go out of my way to visit here as there isn't really anything exciting to see. Just trinkets, t-shirts, and gas-station nutrition with the main feature being gas for the car.
There are little alien trinkets and t-shirts to say you were at this modest gas station in the White Mountains where this famous abduction took place. My wife got excited with an alien doll with velcro hands. We bought it, it is now her co-pilot secured to her seat. A reminder that this is a weird, curious, wonderful existence we live. Sometimes the greatest finds, are the things you were not looking for. read more