Roy Moore regularly hung out at an Alabama shopping mall, flirting with teenage girls and much younger women, local residents said.

The embattled US Senate candidate — accused, on the record, by five women of making creepy moves on them when they were teens and he was in his 30s — was a regular at the Gadsden Mall, where he enjoyed chatting up young ladies, witnesses told AL.com.

“He would go and flirt with all the young girls,” said nurse Blake Usry, who grew up in the area and lives in Gadsden. “Nobody could believe they hadn’t come out yet.”

Usry said anyone who grew up in Gadsden at the time — when Moore was a 30-something deputy DA — knew he had a penchant for flirting with these women and girls.

“It’s not a big secret in this town about Roy Moore,” Usry said. “That’s why it’s sort of frustrating to watch” some in the public disbelieve the women who have come forward.

The mall opened in 1974 and was the popular teen social hub of northeastern Alabama.

“He (Moore) would go and flirt with all the young girls,” he said. “It’d seem like every Friday or Saturday night (you’d see him) walking around the mall, like the kids did.”

Moore has denied sexually assaulting any women.

“Him liking and dating young girls was never a secret in Gadsden when we were all in high school,” said Sheryl Porter. “In our neighborhoods up by Noccalula Falls, we heard it all the time. Even people at the courthouse know it was a well-known secret.”

Victoria Beverstock said she was a 20-year-old waitress in 1992 at the The Poor House, where Moore was a regular customer.

“He watched us girls quite openly,” said Beverstock. “His eyes crawled over our shirts and our backsides. He was so open about it that I would try and handle his order as quickly as possible.”

Teresa Jones, who said she worked at the Etowah County DA’s office at the same time as Moore, claimed the candidate’s attraction to much younger females was well known.

“It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird,” Jones told CNN. “We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall.”