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Not that any loss of life is any laughing matter, within the span of the last month, there have been<\/a> two incidents that have resulted in a dead bodies<\/a> being involved.\u00a0 The thing is, both of them happened to happen at different Kroger grocery store locations within the Metro Atlanta area, and for those of us that live in the Metro area, whenever there\u2019s news of death and Kroger being in the same sentence, the first thing that pops up in the minds of most of us is, Murder Kroger.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Now for those who don\u2019t know, Murder Kroger was a specific Kroger located very central to the City of Atlanta proper, off of Ponce de Leon Ave, right between where Downtown and Midtown are divided.\u00a0 It gained its unfortunate nickname, based on the fact that there were multiple incidents on the premises that resulted in people getting killed, or dead bodies being discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2016, the physical location of Murder Kroger was torn down, and replaced with a state-of-the-art new Kroger, tied to the Jesus sidewalk ITP and ITB snobs know as the Atlanta Beltline.\u00a0 Reconstruction seems to have done the trick at exorcising the demons that kept murders from happening at 725 Ponce, seeing as how there have been no (reported) deaths there since its rebirth as \u2018Beltline Kroger.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n But for long time Atlantans, it\u2019ll always still be known as Murder Kroger.\u00a0 It\u2019s the joke that won\u2019t . . . DIE, and for those of us who were around when people were getting dropped there, it\u2019s just easiest to always know it as Murder Kroger, even if there haven\u2019t been any murders there in a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n However, despite the fact that Murder Kroger physically seems to no longer exist, the spirit of it appears to not be entirely gone yet, and seemingly through the network of Kroger locations, it appears to have decided to go mobile, instead of remaining at one stationary location.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean really, this story<\/a> that came out earlier in the month, about a woman who was killed when a runaway car struck a parked car which then struck her, almost seems like some Final Destination<\/em> kind of shit.\u00a0 And considering it turned out the woman was a relative to two active Atlanta Falcons players, who\u2019s to say that there wasn\u2019t some modicum of foul play in play.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, one incident is a freak accident, a coincidence, but I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t mouth the words \u2018Murder Kroger\u2019 when I heard that this had taken place on the property of a Kroger location.<\/span><\/p>\n But then this second story<\/a> dropped recently, where a fucking dead body was discovered inside of a closed down Kroger location, that started making all the armchair comedians of the internet saying it together, Murder Kroger appears to be back, and taking its act on the road.<\/span><\/p>\n And it really sucks for Kroger in the second instance, because it was at a former location, no longer actively belonging to Kroger, but because it was such a large space, and there\u2019s nothing to refer to it as other than its previous tenant, Kroger\u2019s name gets dragged through the cemetery all over again, and now we\u2019ve got Murder Kroger jokes all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, and it\u2019s what really inspired me to write about this, is that I feel like I came up with a homerun of an analogy, that, at least I feel, is too good to not gatekeep and share, which is that this is all kind of like the plot of The Grudge<\/em>, more specifically The Grudge 2<\/em>, where the white girl in Japan who encounters the haunting spirits and basically gets marked, she moves away back to America, probably thinking that she can escape the curse of the grudge.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, and spoiler alert for a 20 (!!) year old film, of course she can\u2019t escape The Grudge, and not only is she not free from it, it has followed her all the way back to fucking Chicago, and basically has planted its cursed self into the entire apartment complex, fucking with all of the residents.<\/span><\/p>\n Murder Kroger may have been torn down and redeveloped, but the curse of Murder Kroger seems to still be very much alive, and has decided to start poking its head out, and is testing the water in other locations, delivering death and chaos to other Kroger locations around the Metro area.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically the Atlanta version of The Grudge, and only subject to Kroger grocery stores, and if I\u2019ve never felt any reason to stop going to Kroger stores now, I think the fear of getting infected with The Grudge seems as good as reason as any to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that any loss of life is any laughing matter, within the span of the last month, there have been two incidents that have resulted in a dead bodies being involved.\u00a0 The thing is, both of them happened to happen at different Kroger grocery store locations within the Metro Atlanta area, and for those of … Continue reading It\u2019s basically Atlanta\u2019s version of The 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