Have you ever heard this alleged Telly Savalas (KOJAK!!) GHOST STORY??

Synopsis (as told by Telly's real life nephew!):

This happened in the mid-50's, and Telly Savalas wasn't an actor yet. He was a producer for the ABC Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, and was driving alone because Howard Cosell, whom Telly 'discovered' (he was a N.Y. lawyer), had left him stranded at the Manhattan studio, though he'd promised to drive him home to Long Island. A stage hand lent him a car, rather than letting him take the train home.

Telly ran very low on gas and pulled into a very isolated gas station. He had misplaced his wallet, the man lent him $10.

The next day, Telly went to return the cash, met the wife, who asked, "What kind of gag was this?". Her husband had been dead for 10 years. He gave the wife $100, apologized for her loss and his obvious mistake, and left.

Afterward, he returned to the place he'd seen the husband. The gas station had been turned into a diner 8 years before.

I was with Telly the day the wallet was anonymously returned by mail. It was his birthday, Jan. 1987; the unmarked envelope was postmarked less than a week earlier, from Garden City, Long Island. It contained $90 in 1950's bills.