Toys R Us is back, at least in the sense of private equity rediscovering the skin of something it gutted long ago and deciding to wear it again. But this isn't the first time that the famous toy shop was haunted. Embedded below, a 1990s television special dramatizes mysterious happenings at the Sunnyvale, California branch of Toys R Us, reputed to be cursed by restless spirits. Come for psychic fraudster Sylvia Browne presenting a tragic tale of unrequited love; stay for the dulcet narration of Leonard Nimoy—and the direction of none other than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's Tobe Hooper.

Here's a segment of That's Incredible covering the same ground; Browne's repeated presence makes clear she's the source.

Built in 1970, the Sunnyvale Toys R Us closed in 2018 with the debt-laden retailer's liquidation, did seasonal (and apt!) Spirit Halloween duty for a while, and was ultimately renovated to become an REI.…