Well, Laura and myself hopped right in the car and drove there. We were skeptical about the story and thought even if it were true our chances of seeing it would be slim to nil.

We dashed into the store and right to the department we were told had a stairway to the hidden underbelly. We asked the employee manning the counter. She looked genuinely unaware of what we were talking about. We began to leave in disappointment. Running into another employee we figured, "why not." This employee seemed a little bit more aware there was something underground. He told us the name of a manager who would know. We had the manager paged at the courtesy counter, and asked him about it.

"What do you want to know about it," was his response. To which my first question was, "Can we see it?" He led us down the stairs into an ordinary looking basement. Then opened an innocuous looking door.

There was almost no light on the other side of the door and it took my eyes a few seconds to adjust. As they adjusted I could make out curbs and a street all surrounded with concrete. There were doorways into the basements of other stores and a turn in the roadway.

Once around the turn the manager clicked on a light, illuminating a large underground room. There it was, the truck, sitting under one of the few working lights. It was a vintage Ford Pickup.

The manager explained the entire area was originally a very old market of some sort. The stores had apparently built on top of it leaving the truck inside.

Other rumors I have heard is that the roadway was the original Merrick Road and it may have even been Nassau Counties first market. If anyone has any info please email me at editor@lioddities.com.