Editing Sunnyvale, California (section)

==Folklore==
A long-standing legend of Sunnyvale is of a ghost that haunts the town's [[Toys "R" Us|Toys 'R' Us]] store (now [[REI]]). A purported psychic, [[Sylvia Browne]], claimed to have made contact with the ghost on the 1980 TV show ''[[That's Incredible!]]'' and named him Johnny Johnson. This story was also explored in a 1991 episode of ''[[Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories]]''. Browne stated that he had been a Swedish preacher who worked as a farm hand in the orchard where the toy store now stands and that he bled to death from an accidental, self-inflicted axe injury to his leg.<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/toysrus.htm ''Haunted Toys 'R' Us''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813023701/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/haunted-toys-r-us/ |date=August 13, 2023 }}, [[Snopes.com]], October 29, 1998; citing Gina Boubion, ''Ghost Lets Playful Side Show in Pranks at Haunted Toy Store'', ''[[The Houston Chronicle]]'', April 26, 1993, p. A2; and Dan Koeppel, ''Ghost Sightings Aren't Spooking Sales at Toys 'R' Us'', [[Chicago Tribune]], June 23, 1991, p. C8</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/toys_r_us.html|title=Toys 'R Us Ghost|publisher=Ghost Research Society|access-date=August 19, 2008|archive-date=August 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080818221943/http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/toys_r_us.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Katie|last=Dowd|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/haunted-toys-r-us-sunnyvale-ghost-store-12750779.php|title=Would the death of Toys R Us kill off this famous South Bay ghost story?|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=March 13, 2018|access-date=October 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Patrick|last=May|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/23/this-bay-area-toys-r-us-is-about-to-vanish-like-a-ghost/|title=This Bay Area Toys R Us is about to vanish like a ghost|date=March 23, 2018|access-date=October 25, 2021|work=[[The Mercury News]]|archive-date=October 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025195129/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/23/this-bay-area-toys-r-us-is-about-to-vanish-like-a-ghost/|url-status=live}}</ref>