Haunted Soda Machine

"A mysteriously disappearing and reappearing vending machine dispensing a variety of mystery items. Anywhere from treasured family heirlooms to grenades missing their pins. Try risking your luck if you happen to run into it."

Mademoiselle Chasseur's Cryptid Guidebook - Columbia Hill's Mystery Soda Machine
First spotted somewhere in the Columbia Hill neighborhood somewhere in the early 1980's, this vending machine was originally found outside of a tourist bar, it became a small media sensation for zines and outsider newspapers when it dispensed a vinyl for a yet to be released album by a local punk band. The magazines and newspapers picked it up the week after when the machine was found in the basement of a local government office and dispensed an inert landmine. The machine had disappeared by the time the bomb squad had shown up.

Over the next century, the soda machine would pop up randomly around the state of Washington: inside bars, outside offices, middle of the forest, side of the road. The vending machine itself was fairly unassuming, a Zing! machine with a modified take-out port to accommodate whatever ends up dispensed, along with six blacked out buttons and a money slot asking for $2.75. Don't worry, it takes card.