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“Still Can’t Explain What We Saw”: 30 Eerie Sights That Made Nighttime Drivers Question All
Nighttime is really its own special world, even in the 21st century where we are, generally, aware that there aren’t monsters hidden around every corner in the shadows. But that doesn’t mean that the darkness is somehow just as enjoyable as daytime if you have to spend a lot of time in it.
Someone asked “When driving at night, what is the scariest/most unexplainable thing you’ve ever seen?” and netizens shared their personal horror stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own thoughts and experiences to the comments below.
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#1
When I was about 19 I was driving on a two lane road after work around 11pm. No other cars on the road and suddenly this guy in a red shirt on a bicycle swerved from the side of the road right in front of my car. I hit him. Felt the impact. I was yelling "OMG " over and over and got out of the car to see how badly he was hurt. Only I didn't see him. I couldn't find the guy. No bike. No red- shirted guy, no dent or blood on my car. I searched the ditch with a flashlight. A couple people passed by while I was looking in the field for a body when a sheriff's car pulled up. I told him what happened. He said I didn't hit anyone. Told me that about 15 years earlier a young man in a red shirt was hit by a car while riding his bike right there. He died instantly. Deputy told me that every couple years someone driving thru there believes they've hit a red-shirted bike rider. I'd hit a ghost.
Edit: first, thanks for the award kind Stranger! Yes, this is a true story; it happened about 40 years ago and it still creeps me out. To this day I don't like driving at night.
Abraxas59 11 months ago
😂😂😂😂I’m litterally just rewatching supernatural on prime lmao from the start on season two now god I miss those boys
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MagicJacket 11 months ago
If he hadn't been wearing a red shirt, he'd still be alive today. It's basic Star Trek survival philosophy.
zims 11 months ago
Wonder how many people speed off convinced they've gotten away with manslaughter. That'd be a cool spin on the I Know What You Did Last Summer story, the person they hit is actually a ghost who died in a hit-and-run, and everyone that drives off without reporting it takes the ghost with them.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
When I drove for EMS we got a call a couple times a month about a young woman crawling around in the ditch out on a rural highway. We always checked it out (because we legally had to), but it was always nothing. Twenty or so years ago a woman was sexually assaulted and beaten almost to death. They could tell she crawled about three yards before she died.
Traveling Lady Railfan 11 months ago (edited)
Poor spirit. Still out there riding, still out there getting "killed" all these years later. Did anyone ever try to put this soul to rest? Or maybe it's job is to try to raise awareness in night time drivers how quickly a mistake can happen, cuz I'm sure u will never forget this experience.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Or maybe it's a made up story because ghosts aren't real.
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G A 11 months ago
Rather seems not a ghost exactly but a residual haunting, rather like the 'Stone Tape' theory, that a traumatic emotional experience can end up being replayed if you will, given certain conditions, and is picked up by certain people's sensitivities. If you believe in that possibility, obviously.
Donna Peluda 11 months ago
Yea and then you woke up and a flying marijuana tree took you to Reticulin in the Andromeda galaxy
Kendall 11 months ago
And then you closed out of this feed and chose one that you can read without making sarcastic comments trying to be funny.
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Max Fox 11 months ago
This is a new version. Barely better than the same tired old "ghost stories" that they repeat here.
Kendall 11 months ago
Why do you even take the time to read the stories if you're just going to comment trying to ruin the whole vibe?
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#2
I was driving to work, chatting on the phone with my wife to pass the time (6-8 hour drive out to the base from our home) and ahead of me was somebody riding a motorcycle. The road we were on was generally straight (Mojave desert) but had some unpredictable curves because of the road loosely following a broad wash/lake bed (like we’ve discussed, Mojave’s desert.) the person ahead of me was going between 70-90 MPH and seemed generally familiar
With the road. But, then they just sailed straight over the edge of a 45 mph curve going about 80.
I made some reactive, disgusted sound, and hung up with my wife. I immediately pulled over, called 911 and put them in my pocket, got my trauma kit, and put on gloves. I was talking to the dispatcher and explaining what had happened when I step over the bank and see, to my surprise, not a crumpled body in the sage. But a young guy, mid twenties. Picking himself up off the ground about 75 feet ahead of me and 15 feet below. He’d been launched from the motorcycle which was in terrible shape about 30 feet from him. I told him to stay still and went through a quick evaluation. He was basically fine, but super rattled (ended up
Having a broken collar bone and a mild
Concussion).
Anyway, it’s not a ghost story. But I was absolutely certain I’d just seen a person die. And was completely shocked to find him in fine form if a little shaken up.
Xenia Harley 11 months ago
I was driving home on the highway at night, and this person with a very bright green motorcycle, matching outfit zooms past me. It mean must have been going at least 90. A while later down the highway, I passed EMT, and police, etc. I see the same distinctive green bike, now wrecked, and a stretcher with a sheet over it. I swear this is true, I think it was the person on the same bike that passed me about 20-30 minutes earlier.
Kendall 11 months ago
Damn I hate that. It's such an odd feeling to know you just saw someone completely fine 2 seconds before then bam......gone.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 11 months ago
On my way to work years ago & saw a guy run a red light (at speed) and hit a guy on a motorcycle. Immediately pulled over and ran to him. He'd flown an easy 20 feet in the air when hit. He was trying to take his helmet off. I told him NO, and held his arms down until he was calmer, explaining that he may have a neck injury and he needed to stay still. EMTs arrived and put him on a back board to transport. One of them thanked me for making sure the helmet stayed on. He did have a broken neck and removing his helmet may have killed him. He made a full recovery.
The acorn fell 11 months ago
Probably has quarters at the base and drove home once or twice a month. That's what we did when my hubs got assigned to a project 6 hours away.
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When I was 16 I had a junky convertible 1989 Capri. I loved that car. One night I was driving the backroads home out in the middle of nowhere Missouri. Top down, enjoying the night air. I dove under some low hanging trees and heard a weird SLAP noise from the backseat. Turned around to see a huge black snake frantically slithering towards the safety of under my seat. I nearly wrecked. I hate snakes and even though this rat snake was 100% harmless I was panicked. Pulled over screaming and called my dad to come de-snake my car.
I never road with the top down in the country again.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Well, it couldn't do it the traditional way, what with having no thumbs 👍🏼
Load More Replies... Steve Robert 11 months ago
With the way the world is going, when I drive, I want as much metal between me and the outside as I can get.
Phantom Phoenix 11 months ago
Only took BP 3.4 sec to source this pic of a huge black snake on the back seat of a car
Upstaged75 11 months ago
The poor snake was probably just chilling in a tree went it suddenly got hit by a car! (Although I definitely would have wrecked if I'd been driving)
UKGrandad 11 months ago (edited)
I don't know what he was driving but it certainly wasn't a 1989 Capri, because Capris weren't made in 1989. The European model was sold in the states as the Capri (no Ford badging because Ford had its flagship Mustang sports coupe) until 1979, when Ford's Mercury division started making them. The Mercury Capri went out of production in '86.
G A 11 months ago
Dunno why you got downvoted for providing fact. Have an uppy.
Load More Replies... DC 11 months ago
Convertible Capri ... the Ford? Oh man, these things are rare! They were made at Deutsch in Köln, if I remember correctly ... or, this about another car named Capri? Is there one?
UKGrandad 11 months ago
They were made by Ford's Mercury division in the states from 1979-86 and sold under the Mercury badge rather than Ford. There is no such thing as an '89 Capri. Also, the Mercury Capri looked nothing like the European model; it was basically a rebadged Mustang.
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I was 19 driving home from my then bf house and stopped at a red light on the very edge of town (like city lights behind me but corn fields and shelter belts ahead of me) because it's like 2 in the morning I'm the only one sitting at the red light. I saw something moving in my peripherals and because of my location I thought it was gonna be a deer. I turned my head and locked eyes with a man maybe in his 50s creeping towards my car. When he saw that I saw him he froze and it was then then that I noticed he had a tire iron. I ran the red light and sped out of there.
Bookworm 11 months ago
Basically windbreaks. If you drive by a field and there's a row of trees planted along the edge, that's a shelter belt.
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Warren Peece 11 months ago
He was going to ask you for help changing a flat tire on his car. But you left him there and he died from hypothermia.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 11 months ago
You don’t normally creep along if wanting help. As a lone woman driver, there’s no way I’d be hanging about at that light.
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#5
This happened to me when I was 20 years old and my car was about a year and a half old. I was driving home from work at about midnight, coming through residential streets. The boulevard that I was on was four lanes with a cement divider that had plants in it along the way. I was halfway through an intersection, and my car stalled. My foot was on the gas, and suddenly the car was dead. Luckily, they were no other cars that I could see, so I brought my car to a stop, put it in park, and started it up with no problems.
Then I looked up.
Coming straight at me we’re headlights. Someone had turned from a side street and instead of going across the median to turn left going down the correct side of the street, they had turned left into my lane thinking it was only a 2 Lane Road.
Had my car not stalled when it did, I would’ve plowed head first into that car. In the five years that I own that car, it never stalled again.
Donna Peluda 11 months ago
I was actually on an all night bender, nothing to do with me mate
Load More Replies... Traveling Lady Railfan 11 months ago
I hope you thanked that car every single time that you drove it. It was definitely looking out for you
Lisa Tetlow 11 months ago
I believe in divine intervention 100%. That's what this was. I was bringing my kids to school one morning. As I pulled out of the driveway I remembered I had forgotten some papers I was supposed to drop off at the school. I went back in the house, got the them then drove out of our street to see a couple of police cars blocking the road. An accident had just happened a minute earlier at the spot where my kids and I would have been if I not gone back into the house to get those papers.
Bobert Robertson 11 months ago
One time I was out partying in a cornfield as a teen with some friends. Across from the cornfield was an old church, with a manse connected to it. After partying, we were leaving and I was driving (sober while my friends were not). We pulled into the parking lot of the church to turn around and could see one light on in the bottom window of the manse when suddently a shadow appeared like a person was peeking out from behind the curtains. Being middle of the night and in the middle of the country we freaked out and I tried to start driving and my vehicle immediatlely stalled. We were convinced someone in the house did something to cause it because that car was only 3 months old and it never happened again.
Serial pacifist 11 months ago
For those impatient to read long posts (like myself): had his car not stalled he would’ve been involved in a head-on collision, because of an in-coming driver in the wrong lane.
#6
While driving across Luisiana on I10, I saw a flying car.
There’s a bridge that’s about 40 miles long on that road. There was no other car in sight. And far ahead of me on that bridge there was this car about 8 feet above the road. It was kind of bobbing as it flew.
It was a very dark night. All I could see was it’s tail lights. I tried to convince myself it was just a trick of perspective. It just looked like it was higher than the road.
It was freaky, and scary. I was slowly gaining on it, so I slowed down.
I eventually speeded up, telling myself I was stupid being scared of it. Couldn’t really be a flying car. Not a ghost or something.
As I slowly creeped up it was definitely about 8 feet above the road.
As I got closer I finally saw. It was bring hauled on a flat bed truck like a wrecker. The truck had no tail lights, so I guess the truck driver turned on the car’s tail lights .
It gets spooky at night down in those swamps.
Later edit after some replies.
I was wrong, it’s not 40 miles long.
It’s 29.2 miles long.
Atchafalaya Basin Bridge I10 Louisiana USA.
Lame Llama 11 months ago
We see things like this often in The Netherlands. When you see 2 lights coming towards you at night, it's could be a car or 2 bicycles carrying a wardrobe between them.
Kathrin Pukowsky 11 months ago
My driving instructor told it like this: If you see one light coming your way, it's a motorcycle. If it's two lights coming your way, it's a car. If it's three lights coming your way, you messed up real bad and are on the train tracks.
Load More Replies... Nicola Mawson 11 months ago
I flew a car once. Don't tell my dad. It was his car. Everyone and thing was ok
#7
Years ago, my then boyfriend was taking me home around 11p.m. We're on a tiny back road on the middle of nowhere, known for little to no cell service.
Oil light comes on, car starts sputtering. We pull off. Get out, start walking around to get cell signal, and nada.
Out of nowhere we see headlights and what appears to be a cop car from a few towns over pull up. Very nice guy (unusual for the cops around here), asks us what's wrong and immediately says not to worry. He pulled out 2 quarts of the oil we needed from his trunk, and instructed us to get out of the cold and in to the car
Boyfriend and I are talking amongst ourselves in the car with the hood still up, when we realize we haven't seen him come back to his car that was parked across from us.
And then we realize there is no car.
Or a cop.
But there was a single leather glove laying across the valve cover, and enough oil to register on the dip stick.
Thanks Ghost Cop.
Abraxas59 11 months ago
not all ghosts are bad he was still on duty doing his job from a white witch to said cops ghost you can rest now over an out dude blessed be
Jaya 11 months ago
"We couldn't see the car in front of us because of the hood being up and were distracted because were talking to each other for a minute, which is how much time it takes for the cop to get back in his car and drive off. Such a mystery! What in God's name could have happened?! OMG! Was he a GHOST?!! It's the only logical explanation!!" 🙄
Traveling Lady Railfan 11 months ago
If I can't move on to wherever it is we move on to, I hope I come back as a nice ghost who can help other people in some way. I don't even care if it takes a decade a century or millennia, if I can keep helping, that would be really cool. I'd really like that.
Donna Peluda 11 months ago
Car won't stop if it runs out of oil, it will seeze up and won't restart.
Teresa Spanics 11 months ago
I would try and find out who was that ghost cop that helped you both out so you can both thank him at his grave.
Ozymandias73 11 months ago
Probably got hit while doing just that for another person in the same situation.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Because cars have souls and come back from the dead, too, and ghost cops leave real gloves and carry real oil with them? Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary,?
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Scariest thing was this dude who was hitchhiking except something was strange about him. He wore his hoodie down when it wasn’t raining, it was actually a hot humid night in Alabama, and also his other arm was behind his back. When I passed him by I looked on my rear view mirror and saw behind his back was a shotgun.
turk 11 months ago
Relax. He's probably one of those "good guys with a gun" I always hear about.
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Anne Jones 11 months ago
I picked up a hitchhiker once. I said “Aren’t you worried I might be a serial killer.”? He said “ nah, what are the odds that both of us are serial killers”?….
Kerry Fletcher 11 months ago
Yeah this didn't happen. Shotguns are hard to hold especially with one hand and behind your back. Also at night not a chance you saw that in a rearview
Alexandra 11 months ago
It's fascinating to read how the brain can combine all these little clues at lightning speed and then sound the alarm.
Mike F 11 months ago
Me too. It's amazing that the guy obviously had nefarious intent (carrying a shotgun) and didn't use it to secure a ride? I'm gonna add this to the pile of "probably didn't happen but sounded cool at the party".
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#9
It wasn’t exactly something I saw, but some point halfway through my drive home, at about 8:30 ish at night, a guy started following me. It couldn’t have been for very long, because I didn’t notice he was there until I pulled into my driveway and he parked there at the entrance, got out, hiking his horn and screaming some sort of nonsense. Bunch of s**t like “we f*****g know where you live! F**k you!” over and over again and not saying anything about why he had followed me. F****n terrified me. Worst thing? Happened two days ago. Still have no idea why or who it was. Been staying at my mom’s bc if some random angry man knows where I live then for the time being I don’t live there.
CaliCoast 11 months ago
If you know you're being followed, never go home! Go to a police station, or at the very least, a populated area like a shopping center.
BookFanatic 11 months ago
I actually had to do that a couple weeks ago. I was getting home from work about 10 pm and the car behind me made every turn I did, including onto the secluded road that leads to my subdivision. I drove past the division entrance and across to the police station. I turned in, car went straight. Could be coincidence, but I'd rather not find out.
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#10
Getting a feeling that I needed to turn my brights on in a dark spot in the middle of town ... And there ended up being 4 deer just chilling in the road that I wouldn't have seen until I was much closer.
Sue User 11 months ago
For anyone who doesnt know: hitting a deer not only kills the deer( usually) , it will cause major damage to you car, and may end you.
Pandapoo 11 months ago
I’ve never hit a deer, but was driving behind someone that did and the deer went flying. I pulled over to check on the deer as I felt bad for it. It was still breathing, but eventually succumbed to the injuries. When the guy that hit it saw me pull over he did also. I think he felt guilty. He ended up loading it in his truck and taking it to church, which is where he was headed, for someone to be able to use the meat.
Sue Knerl 11 months ago
Deer that fell out of the sky in front of my car on the dark highway in Wyo did over 3k worth of damage to my car. Deer was DIA. I was doing 80 mph legal speed limit ,I almost swerved. Glad I didn't read about a guy the next day that swerved to miss deer and died. Don't swerve! Especially at 80 mph.
Donna Peluda 11 months ago
I never understand when driving at night some people never use there high beams. Always use them when you can and not blinding cars coming the opposite way..ALWAYS!!!. Doesn't matter if there's streat lights.
#11
Maybe not scary but I was driving home in the middle of the night years back and a meteorite came into sight and lit the entire sky up like it was daytime for a few seconds. Pretty crazy to see and it had landed a few hours away from where I was.
#12
>When driving at night, what is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen?
Huge truck with no lights and all reflectors covered with mud, stalled in a shadowed patch of darkness totally blocking the right lane of a lonely country highway with no shoulders.
A wall of invisible steel waiting to k*ll some less observant motorist.
Serial pacifist 11 months ago
This is not weird (unfortunately). It happens too often and most of us have witnessed it in some form, regretfully.
Lousha 11 months ago
Had a friend from a family that were the distributors of one of the largest fine china manufacturers in the country. His dad often delivered large shipments himself. Once he ended up hauling a lot of that stuff around sunset between two towns. No traffic, he could cruise comfortably. The road was sort of like a rollercoaster, big dips then big peaks, so he was not speeding with all that expensive and fragile stuff, but when going up he did have to speed up some to be able to "climb" the steep "hills" . Just a tiny bit over the top of one (so it wasn't visible while climbing) there was a truck, stalled, with no lights on. Friend's dad had zero chance of stopping since he saw it maybe a millisecond before crashing into it. Nobody was seriously injured, but there wasn't one single plate/cup/whatever left in one piece.
#13
I haven't seen any comments mention it yet but I fully expect someone will.
If you see a deer on the road that... _isn't quite right_... in some way or another, it's probably chronic wasting disease. It's a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease) that often presents in ways like the deer is rotting while still alive. This can mean a lot of things, like deer with weird postures, pieces falling off of them, etc. so in the dark at night it can look really freaky. Like a monster that is trying to look like a deer but didn't quite get it down.
I've heard several "I saw a monster on the side of this mountain road one night" stories that were almost certainly a deer with progressed chronic wasting disease. It's very sad but also quite fascinating, if it wouldn't gross you out to read about.
Bill Swallow 11 months ago
Any aspect of reality that is unfamiliar to someone provides very fertile ground for the imagination to run wild. This is not to be construed to mean that I believe that things outside the 'normal' cannot or do not occur.
Pink kitty 11 months ago
I had to look that disease up. It affects elk, deer and moose. As of this year it's found in at least 32 US states and 4 Canadian provinces. The photos are disturbing. Poor animals
Lee451 Henderson 11 months ago
spongiform encephalopathy is a brain disease. It will not cause body parts to fall off.
#14
My young wife and I were moving between cities. We'd spent all day loading a large 16-ft. trailer with all our belonging, and began the drive across the state just before dark. I'd borrowed a large pickup truck to pull the heavy trailer to our destination, so the combination of this truck and trailer (fully loaded) was VERY heavy, and pretty slow and cumbersome to start and stop.
We were traveling along a very desolate stretch of highway at around midnight, driving roughly 60-65 mph, when I see what looks like a couple of deer walking out into the road ahead of us...maybe 200 yds ahead? My wife is asleep on the seat next to me. I begin to slow down a bit and lay on the horn to scare the animals off the road before we reach them. Where we live this is a pretty common occurrence, so I'm not slamming on the brakes cause I expect these deer will move well before we get there. They usually do.
Suddenly I realize, as these "deer" come clearly into the light of our headlights, that these aren't deer! It's two men, and they're trying to stop us! It's only a two lane highway, and one man is standing in the middle of our lane, and the other is standing in the middle of the opposite lane. By now there's absolutely NO WAY I'm going to be able to stop this rig, and they aren't leaving me anywhere to go. But they don't realize I CAN'T stop!
I stomp on the brake pedal, and continue to blare the horn over and over again as fast as possible, hopefully getting them to move. I'm fighting to keep the truck and trailer from jackknifing, brakes locked up and tires screaming, but these guys are NOT moving, and I'm still going 35-40 mph when I reach them.
The only thing I can do at this point is try to thread the needle between them, so I center the truck in the middle of the roadway and hope neither of them tries to close that small window. At the very last second, the guy who's standing in the middle of our lane jumps out of the way. He was so close I was seriously worried our big rear view mirror might hit him in the head! I missed hitting him by mere inches.
This all happened in a span of about 5-8 seconds. There was no car anywhere on the road, we were way out in the middle of nowhere, and it was pretty obvious, based on their behavior, that these two guys were up to something potentially nefarious. I didn't stop. I'd come WAY too damned close to k*lling these guys. My heart was literally in my throat, and it was pounding so hard I was having trouble breathing.
I didn't even realize until afterward that when I'd slammed on the brakes my wife had slid off the seat and onto the floor (this was before seat belts were mandatory). She groggily gets up off the floor and asks me, "What the hell happened??" She'd missed the entire ordeal.
/ Certainly not "unexplainable", but it scared the S**T out of me! I've never come so close to k*lling someone in my life, and I truly hope I never do again!
GPawesomeness 11 months ago
Wow, before seatbelts were mandatory and she didn't wake up when you were laying on the horn? 🤔
Lene 11 months ago
I have slept through New Year's celebrations running amok right outside my window. Lol. So the wife sleeping though a horn-sound is perfectly normal to me. Lol.
Load More Replies... Kathrin Pukowsky 11 months ago
While I'm all for efficient communication, I don't think there is any need for a TL;DR on a mostly text-based entertainment site, let alone on an article about people's personal experiences. Nobody is forced to consume this content, if it's too long for somebody's liking, they can simply decide to not read it.
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#15
Four years ago I’m driving across the Colorado / New Mexico border at around 4am and I’m looking for a place to stop for fuel. I happened along the smallest and saddest little farm town with only one tiny gas station. I hadn’t seen another car for hours, it’s freezing cold, and it felt like this town was abandoned it was that quiet... honestly it was kind of cool except for the cold.
I’m pumping away feeling like I’m completely alone, until I notice another car in the shadows near the back of the building. Flashy black low rider with completely tinted windows and 4 “right out of a Mexican Gangster movie” looking guys leaning against it. I remember laughing because 1, they startled the hell out me and 2, they were wearing the black shorts, wife beater tank tops and the knee high socks. Remember it was FREEZING cold, it was the middle of nowhere, and they looked so casual.
Without a word, all 4 got off the car and walked straight towards me until I could see the full sleeves and face tattoos under the pump lights. Dropped the gas pump, fired up the motor and did the greatest 0-100 that old girl had ever seen. Not 20 seconds after burning out onto the highway, I see headlights swerve out and follow me. Little did they know, my beat up looking dodge truck had the hemi motor and a couple of upgrades, they never had a chance and after a few miles their headlights disappeared in my rear view mirror.
I didn’t think much of it, and even laughed at how bad I outran them till a cop buddy told me about the Mexican Cartels running d***s through there to avoid the Interstate. I wasn’t laughing anymore.
Bookworm 11 months ago
Depends on how long ago this was. Most stations now you have to put your card in first.
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My brother and I were driving down a super remote road late at night many years ago. Wildlife was common so we drove slower than was posted. An accident could be fatal on this road. Anyway, it was a particularly dark night so we had the high beams on and were really concentrating on the journey.
We saw it at the same time. It was impossible to miss. My brother hit the brakes and we skidded to a stop in front of the biggest f*****g cow on earth. We could have driven under it with room to spare. It was massive. And it stared at us without seeming to see us. The vibe was so creepy. Other cows were around but they were regular sized. This guy was the king of all bovine.
It doesn't seem all that weird when telling the story but something was just off with this creature. It didnt seem quite...natural.
MagicJacket 11 months ago
"Babe!" A voice bellowed from the nearby valley. "Babe! Take off that brown jacket and get back here! We got lumber to haul!"
#17
Late to the party but...a purple balloon. I was just driving home when a purple balloon just floats across my vision, still mid-air and in a relatively unpopulated area. Stopped to take some pictures, thankfully balloon was harmless and did not eat me.
Steve Robert 11 months ago
Oh come on. He did take a taste, didn't he? Purple balloons are known for licking things, and then demanding chicken nuggets instead. Wait, that's my grandson. Nevermind.
#18
Oh man i work night shift so im driving at funky hours all the time this is my time to shine.
So one time i got sent home early from work (was sick) and i decided to take the longer and slower but safer easier way home (normal way takes me 25-30 min but depending on the lights this way is like 40 min) so i didnt have to concentrate on the road as much. I was going through the town, managed to make all the lights so far, its like 3:15am so noones on the road or anything, cool misty night and as usually i get a red light so i slow down and stop. I know this light is going to take a while so i whip out my phone to find a new song and as im scrolling through spotify to find one i hear a bang on my passenger side door. Scared the s**t out of me and i dropped my phone on the floor and looked over and at first theres nothing at the window but then slowly a middle aged drunk man rises from the bottom of the window smiling like a creep and just stops in the middle of the window and slowly starts tilting his head side to side. Needless to say thats the only time ive ever ran a red light and touched the redline on my car.
Another time i was taking my normal way home, i normally finish at 6 but schduleing issues at work i got sent home at 4am, its around 4:20am now, im doing like 125kph on the back streets heading towards my house, high beams on and music blaring having a grand old time. Come round the corner and its quite a long road but up the road a small ways i see someone in the middle of the road wearing a white hoodie so i flick my high beams off and start slowing down thinking he was gonna move. I stopped say 2 or 3 meters away from "him" and see that its a white sheet drapped over a standing stick thing with a piece of paper attacted in big bold writing saying "Come up close, Have a look". Now im not sure if it was some teenagers having some fun or if when i got out i was going to get jumped but not being an idiot, I very quickly floored it around the sheet and floored it home. Got home and made triple sure everything was locked.
I have a few more but those 2 are the major ones that jump to mind. Also i am terrible at spelling and at grammar so im sorry for that =(.
#19
Well we're weren't driving. But it was in a car a night.
My buddy and I order a pizza from a 24 hr place. We were parked out side in my car. Its like 1 am. I'm talking to my friend. Just about whatever. Maybe it was movies. I was in the middle of a hot take of some sort, and I look over at my friend and he's starin at me.
Now this buddy. He never looked anyone in the eye. If he did it was glance. He was just one of those guys that was uncomfortable with eye contact. So now he's staring at me. Slack jawed. And I'm like 'dude, what's up?' and he just sort of feebily points over my shoulder.
I turn around and look out my window to see a homeless man lunging his face at my window. Stopping just a half and inch away from full-blown headbutting my window. He has this look on his face. Like he has been caught. He sorta runs away.
I turn back to my friend 'what the f**k was that all about?' and my friend explains why he was frozen.
This guy had walked past. Saw we were in the car. Then he backed up and started to run full speed at the car. He was a split second away from slamming full force into the side of our car when my friend pointed out the window at him and I turned. Which cause the guy to stop dead in his tracks, causing him to stumble and stop half an inch away from my car.
Don't know what that guys intentions where. Still creeps me out.
#20
I used to date this girl who lived in a house in the middle of the woods and her driveway was like a mile long single car road. I was driving up it around midnight to go home and my drivers side window exploded and showered me with glass.
Turns out a deer had rammed into the driver side of my car. Completely destroyed that side and I had to get out of the passenger’s side. I never even saw the deer, I assume it ran away but there was a perfect hoof print in one of the doors
Edit - spellin’.
#21
Bright lights... I have astigmatism and get halo's on bright lights really bad. When going through construction or something and there are a lot of headlights coming at me it's damn near impossible to see the road. Scares the s**t out of me sometimes.
Boo 11 months ago
Last week I learned that seeing halos on bright lights wasn't normal. I knew my astigmatism was bad, but it never occurred to me that it wasn't normal for everyone. How is it that after 50 odd years of wearing glasses, no optician mentioned it to me...
Eunice Probert 11 months ago
No optician told me I had it until I had a cataract removed. The surgeon said it would cure my astigmatism, as he replaced the lens.
Load More Replies... Lame Llama 11 months ago
OP needs glasses for their astigmatism or stop driving at night. It's dangerous for others too.
BookFanatic 11 months ago
Same here. I drive country roads on the way home and sometimes I just plain cannot see the road when there's oncoming traffic. Luckily, I've driven that road for 20 years and could do it blindfolded.
#22
My mom tells this story about when she was young and her mom was driving home from shopping. The car they were in broke down, and in the car behind them a guy gets out and offers to help and fix it there at the side of the road. Thing is, after they were done fixing the car (I think she says they ran out of oil or something like that) the guy, and his car, just disappeared. Gone. Nada. Didn't see him get in the car and leave, just one moment he and his car where there, and then next they were gone. While the story isn't particularly scary, but my grandmother was petrified, and they drove quietly all the way home.
CanadianDimes 11 months ago
Teleporters alone would be even better! No need for cars, just dematerialize at point A, rematerialize at point B. That would be amazing
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Upstaged75 11 months ago
Ah yes, the disappearing hitchhiker/good samaritan/cop. That's been an urban legend longer than I've been alive.
#23
A friend and I were driving down some gravel roads one night, aimlessly turning and trying to get lost and find our way back home out of boredom.
So we’re driving down a long stretch and it’s pitch black out, no houses or lights nearby just the gravel and fields around us. Suddenly I see a large, black mass running next to the car and keeping up with us. I scream and point, my friend screams and slams on the brakes. We’re both in sheer panic mode as this thing stops and turns around to run back at the car. I thought this was the end. Some paranormal creature was about to k*ll us.. annnnd it was just a big, black, wild dog.
The relief and laughter that followed felt so good after being so f*****g scared. The dog was huge to be fair but it keeping up with the car while we drove is what had me thinking it wasn’t some normal animal we see out here.
Max Fox 11 months ago
This person is doing it wrong. They should have said that it was a "Ghostly dog shape" and they they learn from a local that "a dog was run over on that stretch of the road 76 years ago".
ColdSteelRonin 11 months ago
Had a similar experience on a rural road. Out just driving around very early morning because I was bored ( I worked nights and got off at 23:30). Was foggy out and I stopped off of the main road where a farm road connected. While i was getting my bearings and selecting some music I see a large black something with bright shining eyes just off to my left and just outside of the headlights. It's coming straight for me and I had my window down so I could hear it's heavy breathing and footsteps as it rapidly approaches my car. In a bit of a panic I dump the clutch and stall the car as I try to leave. Before I can reach over to roll up the window (old car, hand crank), a massive head is inside the car and a huge black great Dane is playfully trying to lick my face as I giggle in hysterical relief.
Tobias Reaper 11 months ago
why on earth would you slam the breaks and stop the car if something is chasing you
#24
Driving west on I-80 from Iowa City to Newton, I saw lightning strike the corn field I was driving past. It was one of those moments where you realize just how dangerous something is.
Still not the scariest.
Coming home one night on some residential streets, I get stopped by a red light. I had my hand out the window and not a care in the world. Suddenly, I felt fur in my left hand. Somehow I didn’t see it when I pulled up but I must have pulled up next to a friendly deer. We have a lot out here but they never really come into the city. I don’t think it knew my hand was out the window and he was just checking out the car, either way it scared both of us. I could hear his hooves running on the street for blocks.
Child of the Stars 11 months ago
On a date night with my husband, a thunderstorm hit and lightning struck the sign of the building across the street. We were outside having a cigarette at the time. That was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life, and we both nearly jumped out of our skin when it hit.
#25
I had just gotten back to the high school after a state dance competition. It was 2am and I'd been up since 4 that morning, so I was extremely tired. I only had to drive 7 miles from the school to my house, and it was a very rural area, so I figured I'd be fine, but I was exhausted. About 1 mile in, I started to see shadowy people walking on highway. Scared the c**p out of me.
The next thing I remember is waking up in my bed that morning. I went outside and found my car in the driveway, turned off but still in drive, with the keys in the ignition. I still don't know exactly how I got home. That said, I am known for sleepwalking. Yikes!
Pencil 11 months ago
Lack of sleep can cause hallucinations so I'd say probably, yes.
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Mike F 11 months ago
So many questions, how did OP get into the house if the keys were in the car? 🤔
UKGrandad 11 months ago
Didn't keep the house keys on the same ring as the car keys, perhaps? I don't.
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I was driving to a friend’s house during a storm once when I was about 17, almost 18 years ago. The storm was already bad and getting worse by the minute.. this was in west central Texas, where the storms are known to kick up ferociously. Anyway I’m going like 10 miles an hour, trying to see through the storm, when all of a sudden everything stopped. The wind, the rain, everything. During that quick break in the storm, I saw a golden-orange mist, in the shape of a person, move in front of my car, from the right curb to the left... as soon as it approached the left curb, it disappeared, and the storm came back in full force. I’ll never forget it, even though it only seemed to last a few seconds.
SkippityBoppityBoo 11 months ago
Maybe it was the eye of the storm. Not the orangey person, the storm dying down then restarting... And maybe this person during the eye of the storm foresaw the future of that Orange Person whose name we shall not mention...
Tropical Tarot 11 months ago
It is spelled curb in the US where the story takes place.
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A driver drove past me by my right side.
I was driving in a single lane street next to a cliff on my right and a mountain (no road) to the left. I slammed my brakes and let it sit for some minutes before driving again.
To this day I'm not sure of what I saw.
#28
100% swear this really happened.
Friends and I went to a haunted bridge one night. The story goes that the dad k*lled the entire family back in the 1800s and buried them under the bridge. If you go and put your car in neutral, the kids will push you across the bridge.
We all thought it was stupid but wanted to check it out. We go buy some flower and spread it on the back of the car to “catch” evidence as a joke. The bridge is outside the main city area (Austin, tx) so we didn’t feel it was too scary when we pulled up.
We get to the bridge around midnight and put the car in neutral. I’m driving the car. The road is flat and might even have a slight uphill so the car should not move. The car slowly starts moving forward. Friends think I’m pranking them, which I assure them I am certainly not. I even lift my legs to show them. As we move a little faster I put it in drive and hightail it out of there.
We make it to a gas station and all get out of the car trying to collect ourselves. We go around back and there are little finger prints on the back of the car.
We all swore to never check out an urban legend again.
Max Fox 11 months ago
First, no, swearing doesn't make me believe the person. Second, there are many stretches of road that that have a optical illusion that makes them seem like the road is tilted at an angle that is a different direction of the real angle. So is you put your car in neutral it will seem to roll uphill. People who don't understand optical illusions believe that these stretches of road are haunted. As for the "little finger prints" Yes buddy, sure, I believe you. Now let me sell you the Eiffel Tower...
Debbie 11 months ago (edited)
The back of the car probably had their own fingerprints on it. Initially the flour covered everything equally but the weather conditions make the spots with fingerprints less sticky so the flour falls off there. That would be my unresearched explanation.
Load More Replies... G A 11 months ago
Load of rubbish. Well known effect caused by gradients thats been debunked on every supernatural show on TV. As for the flour, the car would already be covered in fingerprints and grease so unless it had been totally cleansed and there was no wind/rain etc, no way this would work.
Sophia Athene 11 months ago (edited)
One of these optical illusion gradients has a peacock farm down the road. People testing it think they're hearing children's cries but it's just that crazy scream peacocks make. I would probably be scared of peacock cries if I hadn't heard them on TV.
WinterLady 11 months ago
I don't know about the fingerprints, but the illusion of a road appearing to go uphill, but is actually going downhill happens in some areas. I can't remember the explanation atm. We have this phenomenon at Magnetic Hill, in New Brunswick, Canada.
#29
About 25 years ago my sister and I were driving on a normally busy road, but it was late at night and was deserted. We could both see something flapping on the road up ahead. I asked her what it was and my sister said she didn't know but that it looked like a black garbage bag. I agreed, it really looked like a bag lying on the road being whipped lightly by the wind.
As we approached it completely changed shape. It went from being quite flat and small to morphing into a fully grown man on a bike. He was just standing there in the middle of the road with his bike. We pulled alongside and asked if he was ok. He nodded but didn't speak. We drove off.
We STILL talk about it because it was the strangest, creepiest thing ever and we both still can't explain what we saw.
#30
This was probably 15 years ago. My best friend in high school and I were out late. I don’t remember why. Being dumb teenagers.
Anyway it’s like 1am and we are taking the normal shortcut road back towards her house. Suddenly I see I’m the ditch to my right something lumped and white. It takes about 1.8 seconds for me to realize it looked just like a body lying face down. I say to her “Did you see that in the ditch?! Was that a body?!” She says “I was about to ask you the same thing what the f**k?!” So she turns around at the stop sign up ahead and goes back. We can’t quite tell from the opposite side of the road if the body was still there. So down we go and turn around again. This time we are just crawling along searching the ditch.
Somehow we both glance up into the trees on a small hill above the ditch and we see it. A person in a white shirt and dark pants crouched next to and slightly behind a tree trunk staring at us. We scream bloody murder and she tears a*s out of there and we speed so hardcore back to her house I don’t know how we didn’t die.
When we calmed down the next day we figured it was someone running away? Either was in pretty sure that experience took a year or two off my life.
#31
My sister and I stopped along Interstate 5 in Oregon in a super random countryside pull out to check something in the car and I look over at her and she's staring wide-eyred at the door behind me. I turn around just in time to see a hippy guy (probably just homeless guys) reach for the unlocked back door. I screamed "Peel out!!".and she did covering him with gravel. But c'mon he wasn't even hitchhiking. He appeared out of a ditch. So we are grown and screaming our damn asses off which turns into uproarious laughter. Just a bunch super scared emotions. Poor guy (if he wasn't a k*ller).
#32
When I was 17 my best friend & I drove to a rural town about 1.5 hours away. We were talking to cute boys that lived there and were invited to a party one weekend.
On the drive back home it was dark and started snowing, like hard. I was young & hadn’t been driving for very long and started to get freaked out. We hadn’t told our parents we were driving to this town, it was pitch black, and the snow started sticking fast. At the time I had an 8-year-old basic little sedan that didn’t do great on slippery roads. A semi-truck came up behind me and clearly wanted to pass, but it was a two lane road and I don’t think it was legal in that area. After a few minutes, they started riding my a*s so aggressively I panicked and hurriedly pulled over to the side when I saw a wide enough space. All I could see was what my headlights could reach - and all of a sudden a big animal appeared in my headlights just as I was angling my steering wheel to the side of the road. If I would’ve gone straight another 10 feet I would have hit it. It was a live animal, but under the circumstances neither my friend or I could tell what it was. We guessed maybe a cow. If I would’ve hit it, it would have really damaged my little car, in a blizzard, in the pitch black, at 17 years old, in a rural area, when my parents didn’t know where I was.
tl;dr I wonder how I didn’t die in my late teens.
Kathrin Pukowsky 11 months ago
I guess I'm misunderstanding something. As OP states, there was a semi-truck basically trying to climb into her trunk. Since OP pulled off on the shoulder, that semi would've hit the animal. Unless it was obliterated by the impact, it should've been possible to identify what sort of animal it was.
#33
Driving on one of the reservations in New Mexico and came across a car completely stopped in the left lane. We slow down to pass the car and see the victim of a hit and run in the road in front of the stopped car (it wasn't them, they stopped when they came across the body). We pulled over, my Dad and husband got out to see if they could do anything. Unfortunately he was long gone and others had called the police. We didn't witness the accident and couldn't help so we left so that we wouldn't be in the way. The worst was that we still had a few hours left of driving that night. It was super foggy and I was terrified someone was going to jump out into the road from out of the fog.
#34
My family used to go out on little drives together sometimes for fun in the spring to watch all the run off water from the snow melt. We live in the rural prairies of Canada. Were on a back road slowly winding the edge of a prickly hay field with a tiny trickling ditch river beside us, its the golden hour, the returning geese are dotting the water gathered in the fields for miles. A scene Van Gogh might wanna paint, ya know? Anyways, we're driving along when this enormous moose thunders out of nowhere at top speed right in front of our car. She heads through the field right beside us and straight toward some water that had pooled at bottom of a little hill in the field. Very wide puddle, but looked maybe a foot deep at most. She made it a few feet in to the water then suddenly fell into an unsuspecting abyss below and vanished completely.
I don't even know how long it was but it felt like ages, she eventually emerged ~40ft away on the opposite side of the "puddle" and kept on running like she didn't just slip in to mariannas trench.
Its about 6ft from hoof to shoulder on a female moose. Theyre absolutely huge, larger than horses and she completely vanished. Ill never forget it.
#35
Im from the north eastern part of Pennsylvania, far into the Appalachian wilderness. Theres a marsh not far from my house thats locally famous for having a large black mountain lion living in it. Everyone from out of the area says mountain lions don't live in Pennsylvania, but several people in my town have reported it, including local wildlife experts. I dont know how I feel about it, but it scares me just the same.
I was driving home one night late from work and decided to take my old Hyundai Sonata through the marsh road instead of the slower way through town. On either side of the road, tall cattails and goldenrod blocked vision beyond about 20 feet. At the edge of my lights I saw something slink across the road, and figured at first that it was a dog. So I pulled up to where it entered the reeds, rolled down my window, and called out to it, saying something along the lines of "here boy". I heard a deep growl followed by a terrifying shriek/scream noise. Then I saw a a pair of eyes reflecting in the bushes, walking for the car. I gunned the gas and drove the rest of the way home without stopping.
I dont know what I saw or heard that night. It could've been a few different animals making noises at the same time I suppose. I've hunted and trapped for years and know what bears, foxes, coyotes etc sound like, and it didn't sound like any of those. I've always told everyone that I had seen "The Cat" that night, but in all honesty I dont know. I dont walk unarmed through that part of the marsh anymore though.
Robert Beveridge 11 months ago
Mountain lions don't live in PA? Since when? We definitely had at least a handful of them in the Pittsburgh suburbs in the 70s.
Bookworm 11 months ago
I live in Southeast PA; I think it's a matter of time before someone confirms a real mountain lion sighting here or in the Jersey Pine Barrens or something. There's been too many reports, even if a lot of them do turn out to be large house cats seen at a weird perspective.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
There’ve been sightings in central round PSU area
Load More Replies... Xenia Harley 11 months ago
I had a park ranger tell me about 20+ years ago that there was a female breeding mountain lion in the Delaware Water Gap area. He advised me not to walk my dog off leash! Also, I know several people who anecdotally saw mountain lions. One was a person who had a group of 5 horseback riders she was leading. They all saw it, just lounging under a tree. I think since it's a big tourist area, at least on the eastern side of the state, they don't want people thinking there are lions in the woods.
Laura Wyatt 11 months ago
Cougars travel long distances sometimes. I live in Missouri that has zero native cougars, but they sometimes wander— even had one get caught on a backyard camera in St. Louis County like 20 years ago. A few road kills in recent years too.
Bored Trash Panda 11 months ago
Why would you yell out to something AT NIGHT in the Appalachian wilderness........ I'm from the west coast and even I know better... But I also believe in the existence of cryptids.
#36
So this s**t still gives me chills to this day.
Me and a few of my friends in college went on a hike my freshman year. We had a few tokes by the river and started heading back to the car. It was starting to get dark out so we turned our phone flashlights on for the last 5 or so minutes of the trek. We all piled in my 01 Civic (there were 6 of us) and I switched the key and turned on the headlights. I s**t you not about 30 or so feet in front of the car, just within the tree line stood a 40 or so year old man butt a*s naked. He stared at the car with zero f***s and just stood there.
I dont know what the f**k he was doing or why he was there but i'll never forget that "is this real?" moment we all had. We all think he must've been high on something or he was just a wild dude lurking in the shadows. He straight up looked like tom hanks in cast away.
#37
When I was 16, my parents had told me to get my butt home because a huge snowstorm was coming. I was at my boyfriend's so I threw a fit, and my parents were like, "Fine. But you have to drive yourself home and be home by curfew: 9pm."
I had never driven in the snow. I left his house around 7, and there was already about 5in on the ground, and it was still snowing HEAVILY. It was also pitch black out. Both my boyfriend and my parents lived in this small farming town, so I was only about 4 minutes up the road, should be easy to get home right? Wrong.
The whole drive took 1.5ish hours. I couldn't see anything with the vortex of snow. There weren't streetlights in my town. I could barely go 2mph in my tiny car.
As I'm almost home, like I can literally see my street, my headlights illuminated a little girl in the middle of the road, not dressed for the weather. I slammed my brakes, but due to the snow I skidded for about a quarter mile. I felt the impact of hitting her. When I finally did stop, I got out with my phone flashlight to look for her. Nobody.
I decided it was best to get home and tell my parents. We lived next door to the town fire dept, so my dad had them go look for her. They easily found where my car had put the brakes on, but nobody was there. There was damage to my headlight, so I definitely hit SOMETHING, but they couldn't find anything.
To this day my dad says it must have been a deer, but I know what I saw...
Max Fox 11 months ago (edited)
I remember driving a few years ago, and I saw a little boy, barely older than a toddler, standing alone by the side of the road. I remember that he was a little Asian boy (I lived in grad student housing so many international students), with a little knitted cap, a puffy jacket and pants. I even remember the expression on his face. Except that it wasn't a boy, it was a fire hydrant that I saw in my peripheral vision, and my brain supplied all of the other details. A person may "know what they saw", but what they saw is often not reality at all. People have no idea just how unreliable their sight, hearing, and memories actually are.
Senjo Krane 11 months ago
Apparently your brain fills in a LOT of what we see, which is why you might suddenly notice something, a sign or whatever for the first time, but your friends will tell you its been there for years.
Load More Replies... Bookworm 11 months ago
Maybe it's not the point of this story, but the parents were completely irresponsible, letting their teenager who had never driven in snow drive herself home at night in a blizzard.
Bartlet for world domination 11 months ago
You gotta learn some time, better on the 4 miles you've driven often.
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My mom told me this story. She was in the car with my sister who was driving and they were on their way back from some event. The street lights on this particular stretch of road weren’t working very well and it was difficult to see. My sister is chatting away and my mom is watching the road when all of a sudden she sees in front of the car a bike rack, complete with bikes on it, that looked as if it had just dropped off the back of someone’s car and they didn’t notice. She screams “BIKES” at the top of her lungs, my sister swerves, over corrects, spins, and then comes to a stop on the other side of the road facing the opposite direction, miraculously avoiding all the cars that were going by. A few cars stop to make sure they’re okay. My sister looks at my mom and asks her how she even saw the bikes because she didn’t see them until they were almost about to hit them. My mom said she saw them and it looked like they were illuminated by a gentle blue light, but they looked back and those bikes were just sitting in the darkness. Creepy.
#39
I was working a night shift and rode a moped to work, the headlight was fairly dim but on the way home I saw what I can only describe as what looked like.. black pants, floating slowly just overhead but making a walking motion as they passed, I got a good look and I still cant make heads or tails of what it actually was and I sure as f**k wasn't going back to double check.
#40
I once saw something late at night in the headlights on a dark country road which was sandy coloured, about the size of a small cat with about twenty feet of tail following it, running really quickly, real wtf stuff.
some thirty years pass, and then I find out on reddit what it was.
Someone posted a video of a pale rat with lots of smaller rats all holding onto each others tails and running like that.
i love hawaiian margarita pizz 11 months ago
It sounds like possums to me.
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#41
This was back when I worked as a manager at a certain chicken chain of restaurants around 2016. We had to stay later than normal cleaning flour and water stuck to the floor. I had a coworker who was kind enough to stay a little later to help close in exchange for a ride home which I gladly agreed to. We finish up and he's giving me directions on where to go and I end up driving in a part of town I didn't recognize. A whole lot of farmland and open fields that felt scarily empty. It must've been around 1:30 AM by the time I dropped him off.
I start taking the empty rural road back, feeling a bit sketched out. As I get close to approaching where the traffic lights are that's when I notice them. There was a group of around fifteen or so people fist fighting on the road. They looked like the stereotypical description of a Latino gang member. Long white shirts, dickies, mustaches, bald heads, you know the look. The thing is they all looked identical. It felt like I was watching clones fight amongst themselves to decide who was the real Hector.
As I get closer to them they all stopped fist fighting and turned to look at me, almost in sync. I was about twenty, twenty five-ish feet away from them, slowly inching forwards because I'm obviously not going to run people over. They all looked like deer caught in the headlights.
And then they all started running towards me.
It was as if they were all racing each other to see who could get to me first. I panicked immediately and swerved off the road and drove around them. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw that they quickly gave up on the idea of catching up to me. I made it out without injury or damage to my car (thank gods), but from that point I never offered rides to anyone from work.
#42
When I was in High school we used to drive out to this graveyard outside Hobart in Indiana. Middle of nowhere and at night it would be dark as hell. There was an angel statue in the middle and if you got close to it, the temperature was supposed to drop. (It DID seem like this happened but I'm sure its just the atmosphere.
Anyway, like 10 of us go, get scared, walk around, have a good time. We leave (we had 2 cars). I'm driving the second one and being dumbass 17 year olds, I'm following the girl driving the car in front of me pretty close. It's a backroad, not well lit, no other cars in sight. It's late as hell.
All the sudden she swerves all the way into the other lane and panicking, I swerve too thinking there's a deer. Nope. Not a deer. There is a f*****g tombstone in the middle of the goddamn road. Sounds like the stupidest thing you've ever heard but I swear it. Listen, I don't believe in ghosts, don't believe in heaven or hell, none of that...but I know what I saw. 9 other people saw the same thing. We talked about it recently for the first time in years. I think we all kind of mentally blocked it out.
Edit:spelling.
Bill Swallow 11 months ago
What's the distance from the graveyard to the site of the incident? Wondering if there's any chance a car could have hit a grave marker and knocked it out into the road, or if someone put a tombstone in the road as a stupid (dangerous) prank. Was the bottom of the stone smooth, or broken? A brave person with no imagination might also have stopped to move the stone off to the side of the road. Honestly not sure how I would have reacted.
Snorkeldorf 11 months ago (edited)
My girlfriend and I decided to scare ourselves by taking a trek to a very old cemetery some distance from where we lived. Graves dated back to 1822. It's way out in the country, so fog is rolling across the road off the corn fields. Very few houses and the road is deserted. Arrived just before midnight and waited until my watch read midnight before we started driving slowly through to add to the spookiness. Half way through, one of my headlights goes out. Scared us to pieces, so we picked up speed a little and got out of there. Next morning, I checked my watch and it had stopped. This was long before digital watches so I started to wind it. After a couple of turns it was fully wound. Hadn't been over wound and didn't really need winding. A little while later, it was still showing 12:04. This was about the time we were in the cemetery. The watch never worked again. Cheap watch, but that coupled with the burned out headlight was a heck of a coincidence.
#43
I've got two.
First, I was driving home from visiting family late at night. I was on a 2 lane highway in the middle of nowhere. Farms all around and spotty cell phone reception. If you didn't have headlights on, you couldn't see anything. My radio started cutting out and my headlights started getting dimmer all of a sudden. I turned the radio off and was just listening to the silence as my headlights were getting worse and worse, when all of a sudden, I hit a huge bump in the road. My radio came back on LOUD and my headlights were at full brightness. It was the weirdest car thing I've ever dealt with. But I would have been screwed if I'd broken down out there.
Second, driving home from a friend's house in the city at 2am. As I'm coming around a corner I see this creature crawling along the road. It was definitely larger than a raccoon, but smaller than a medium sized dog. It was moving slowly and sort of wobbled as it walked. I slowed down because I wanted to see what on earth it was. As I get up along size it, it scurries directly toward my car and I stepped on the gas. I looked in my rearview mirror and nothing was there. Still not sure what it was...
Xenia Harley 11 months ago
Sometimes foxes get mange, or coyote, and look very strange. They also usually lose their sight when it is really advanced so move erratically.
#44
The scariest thing I’ve seen was another driver try and drive straight through a roundabout and hit the sign that said “roundabout”. It didn’t compute at first—very surreal.
Serena Myers 11 months ago
Maybe someone had given him directions and told him to go straight ahead at the roundabout.
#45
Me (f24 or so at the time) and 3 of my girlfriends were driving from Sydney city to a rural country house for a chill weekend back in about 2006. Everything was normal, we got more and more rural and deeper into the countryside towards the end, it was dark, the road was almost invisible, so twisty and turny and we were all getting more and more anxious as we didn’t really know where this house was and it felt like we were driving into nowhere. Totally isolated. The suddenly as we slowly twisted and turned down this black road we could barely see, this haunting creepy horror-like music started playing from NOWHERE. Like haunting organ funeral music. Radio was off, it was no ones phone, it seemed like it was inside the car. If lasted about 1 minute and ended. We all heard it and it was creepy as f**k. To this day I don’t know what it was.
#46
This was quite recent ... with the popularization of the app '' randonautica '' I decided with some friends to go see some locations, we went to a first one ... nothing special, a small square without much to see ... in the second when we were driving to her we see on a post a photo of us in the first location ... someone was following us. one of my friends suggested to go to the second location (to which we were driving) explore it and return to the house (while our plan at first was to spend the whole night exploring locations) then, we arrived at the second location and the same as the first ... nothing special until we saw that there was a box on a park bench ... a box with a paper written in binary code and with a link from google maps, we translated the binary code ... it said '' Do you want us to go for some fun? '' We did not understand the message until we saw the google maps link ... it was the location of my best friend's house.
Anna S. 11 months ago
I am guessing one of the friends set it up as a prank, to make it seem like someone was predicting where they would go.
Load More Replies... #47
This didn't happen at night, closer to the evening, but I'm still not quite sure how to justify what had happened.
I live on a backroad in the country, so when I need to head to town, I almost always end up having to pass by an Amish carriage. It's a common occurrence, and they're usually friendly and pull as much to the side as they can to let cars pass them by, but this one was going unbelievably slow. So I came up behind them, checked to make sure it was clear, passed by, and I very vividly remember looking at them as I passed in my rear view, looking ahead to the road, and then looking back in my rear view to see that nothing was there. No horse, no carriage, no roads to turn on nor hills to cut off my sight. One second they were there, the next they just weren't.
Not sure if I'm going insane or if this belongs in a spooky subreddit, but I'm still a little creeped out by it everytime I drive by that spot.
Bill Swallow 11 months ago
I really hope the first person who perfects a holographic projector that can produce a hi-res volumetric display in open air is not a practical jokester.
#48
I had recently got followed to work for 30 minutes just so they could yell at me and phone the police on me for cutting them off.
2 weeks later I was being followed and no matter how often I changed directions they followed me. I now have ptsd of being followed so I was panicking.
#49
Once I was traveling in night when I saw something unexplainable thing. A bike without a rider. First I thought it was a illusion or a prank. After watching it for sometime I came to realise that it was definitely running without a driver. I got shocked and went my way. Recently I came across a youtube cctv footage recorded from a phone camera type video where I found the exact same thing. A bike running on the street without a rider. I have no idea what it was.
Bill Swallow 11 months ago
Bicycle, or Motorbike? The term 'bike' is often used interchangeably for both, and in this case, the meaning is ambiguous, but the use of 'running without a driver' gives the impression of a motorbike. I ask because gyroscopic effect can allow a motorbike to travel quite some distance without a rider. In that case, that's no mystery, just physics.
#50
Driving down a Michigan country road at about 2-3am. See something in the road up ahead, was pretty sure it was some kind of trailer or wagon or something. By the time I get up to it, I realize it's not a trailer, It's a f*****g horse, just standing in the road. He watched me drive by him really slow. Didn't move, just stood there. I was going to call animal control, but I figured f**k it, let him have his fun.
#51
My family and I took a trip to Australia when I was 9, and a distinct memory I have is when we were driving between a forest area and fields at around 11 pm. We spent a little too long walking around Gold Coast and got held up, so we were late to our Airbnb. My sister and I were asleep in the backseat, and due to me being a light sleeper, I woke up when I heard my mom saying "What the hell". Got up, looked out the window like my curious 9-year-old self, and I watched as we drove past roughly 5 people standing on the side of the road in a row, staring at us as we passed. I was creeped out, but still looked through the back windscreen, and there were more people on the other side of the road. I couldn't see clearly at that point, but I assume there was another 5 people on the other side. It was the first really unexplainable thing I've seen in my life.
AtMostAFabulist 11 months ago
Being Australia, it ws probably giant huntsman spiders or something.
#52
Me and my mate where out bush in his car just doing what Ozzie teens do when we get our license and a really secluded dirt track in the bush and flog the car for a few hours. We were probably about an hour from any main roads or presence of other people other than the dirt track and we saw some guy in a yellow Ute digging a hole off the side of the track we slowed down and he looked up and my mate just hit the gas and we teared off down the road, ended up coming to a dead end probably 10 minutes later and had to head back, no sign of old man or yellow Ute. Was almost 5 years ago now and it still pops up into my head
Edit: spelling.
#53
Driving aimlessly around at two or three in the morning on a minor highway - almost no other cars around because it’s a weeknight.
Suddenly my headlights illuminate something on the median and it looks for all intents and purposes to be a body wrapped in a sheet.
I should’ve just pulled over then backed up, but I decided to take the next exit, turn around and come back, which I did but the exits were far apart and it took me longer to get back than I would’ve liked.
I ended up passing it again so only got another quick glance (and it still looked like a sheet-wrapped body), but pulled over onto the median and parked my truck and started to walk back towards it when I heard rustling in the trees (median had trees and scrub bushes). I’m sure it was just an animal, but it was a loud rustling so I just ran to my car and sped off.
I kept looking in the newspaper (pre-internet) to see if I saw any mention of it but never saw anything.
#54
I was driving home one night after working a 18 hour day it was brutal but I was so tired because I’d also had a long week I was having hallucinations I parked up in the side of the road by some big warehouse and fell asleep I woke up with the green neon sign outside the warehouse flickering I then thought I saw a group of men running towards my car so I started with he car a took off quick as I’m driving again I feel like someone is hiding in my backseat so I brake really hard to try and send them crashing forward into the front of the car and as I did this I realized it was just a jacket on the back seat.
#55
Im going to preface by saying we were all on acid but...An old lady wearing all white walking down a very wooded road with a very old cemetery near by...I thought I hallucinated it till someone else in the car asked if we saw it too. All 4 of us saw it. The old lady was so out of place and we literally spent the whole night driving up and down that one road never seeing her until it seemed like she appeared out of nowhere.
What do you think ?
Linda Lee 11 months ago
Christmas time, 1990's, pre cellphones, no car fob. I walked alone to my car after leaving the mall. It was dark outside. I heard a man call my name. This guy had a buzz cut and huge scar on his head from what looked like brain surgery. It was a guy I went to school with years ago. He creeped me out and I kept walking to my car, got in and locked the door. He tried to open my car doors. I was scared and drove away. Next day I was talking to a mutual friend who warned me to stay away from that guy. Apparently, he was injured by friendly fire while in Army boot camp and discharged, hence the brain surgery scar. The friend said he wasn't the same person anymore and might be dangerous.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
Nothing I saw, but two times GPS tried to kill me. I was on vacation in Hawaii, going down a mountain road, sheer cliff face on one side and drop off on the other, the GPS says "Turn right now". The second time,I was driving to Montana and I pulled off the highway to get gas at a little rural truck stop. I could see the highway and what I thought was the on ramp. GPS took me the opposite direction and started taking me into cornfields. Not today Satan, this is how horror movies start. I turned around and lo and behold, the on ramp was right there.
Captive 11 months ago
I was maybe six when we we driving with parents and aunt, uncle and I was in the trunk (yes trunk, the 90s were wild). I was looking at the full moon. Suddenly a thick black line started to appear at the bottom of the moon right in the middle and slowly wandered up until the entrei full moon hat a black line exactly in the middle, parting it in two. I shouted "look at the moon!" and everybody got confused and my aunt was scared. Might have just been contrails from a plane at night but seeing the line exactly in the middle was freaky
weird star kid 11 months ago (edited)
Not a car story, but creepy nonetheless. I was once at a sleepover at my friend's house and we were sleeping on her sectional couch in her basement. She was sleeping on the section that sticks out and I was sleeping on the complete opposite side of the sofa. She fell asleep around 1am, and me about ten minutes after. The next morning, she told me that she woke up and saw me sitting right next to her playing on my phone. What's weird is that I'm not known for sleepwalking, and she's not known for sleep paralysis. The story creeps me out to this day. Edit: I forgot to mention that she remembers being fully conscious. Another thing is that she has an unfinished room in her basement and has seen some weird things.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
The worst i can think of was when I was maybe 19/20 years old. I had a neighbor I was friends with at the time. His house and my house were within walking distance. His parents were not home. This was on a Friday or Saturday night. Went down to his house to do some drinking. Don't recall how late it was but when went home as I am walking home I look up and see a light rectangular objectve in front of me. It only lasted a few seconds i believe. Scared me. I was hallucinating.
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 11 months ago
The one I have is from broad daylight. I was driving on 285 in Denver headed towards the mountains when I saw a large angular shape in the sky that looked like a building in an art deco style, pretty high in the sky. I guess it was a hot air balloon but the shape had hard angles. No one else seemed to be concerned and that’s a busy highway so I couldn’t rubber neck it to figure out what it was. Still baffled twenty years later. Every now and then, as with this article, I will think of it and try to figure out what it was. Never had anything like it happen again. It was really large, too. I don’t think it was an optical illusion where I was seeing something on land through clouds. No explanation.
Bored Trash Panda 11 months ago
I used to live in Hawaii on Oahu. There is a cemetery in Mililani that had this statue of Mary or something along those lines, can't remember. Well, supposedly if you drive around it a few times then face it with your headlights on it moves. We decided to try it and, of course, nothing happened. Well we went around it one more time to turn around and head home and the car died, wouldn't start for a couple minutes. It finally started and we hightailed it outta there. We stopped at a store near my house and when we looked at the car there were handprints all over it that looked like they were pushing us in the opposite direction.
Bored Trash Panda 11 months ago
Another one in Hawaii. We were driving up to a secluded area to use my telescope to see a comet. The road we were on was a one lane road, so when another car came from the other way, we had to drive onto the giant dirt mound on the side of the road. My friend had a huge lifted truck, so no problem. Well, since it was really tall, we could see into other cars really well. A car came by so we had to pull over, we looked in the car, which had a light on inside, and there was no one in the car. Really creepy.
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 11 months ago (edited)
I had gone shopping in a nearby town that I used to get to by a short-cut down a dark rural road. That night, I was sure I saw a small brown dog run across the road directly in front of me. Since it was kind of the middle of nowhere, I decide to see if the dog was OK and thinking maybe I should rescue it. I turned the car around and saw the same brown shape run across the road in the other direction. It was an old brown plastic shopping bag blowing in the breeze.
Linda Lee 11 months ago
Christmas time, 1990's, pre cellphones, no car fob. I walked alone to my car after leaving the mall. It was dark outside. I heard a man call my name. This guy had a buzz cut and huge scar on his head from what looked like brain surgery. It was a guy I went to school with years ago. He creeped me out and I kept walking to my car, got in and locked the door. He tried to open my car doors. I was scared and drove away. Next day I was talking to a mutual friend who warned me to stay away from that guy. Apparently, he was injured by friendly fire while in Army boot camp and discharged, hence the brain surgery scar. The friend said he wasn't the same person anymore and might be dangerous.
Rae Reyn 11 months ago
Nothing I saw, but two times GPS tried to kill me. I was on vacation in Hawaii, going down a mountain road, sheer cliff face on one side and drop off on the other, the GPS says "Turn right now". The second time,I was driving to Montana and I pulled off the highway to get gas at a little rural truck stop. I could see the highway and what I thought was the on ramp. GPS took me the opposite direction and started taking me into cornfields. Not today Satan, this is how horror movies start. I turned around and lo and behold, the on ramp was right there.
Captive 11 months ago
I was maybe six when we we driving with parents and aunt, uncle and I was in the trunk (yes trunk, the 90s were wild). I was looking at the full moon. Suddenly a thick black line started to appear at the bottom of the moon right in the middle and slowly wandered up until the entrei full moon hat a black line exactly in the middle, parting it in two. I shouted "look at the moon!" and everybody got confused and my aunt was scared. Might have just been contrails from a plane at night but seeing the line exactly in the middle was freaky
weird star kid 11 months ago (edited)
Not a car story, but creepy nonetheless. I was once at a sleepover at my friend's house and we were sleeping on her sectional couch in her basement. She was sleeping on the section that sticks out and I was sleeping on the complete opposite side of the sofa. She fell asleep around 1am, and me about ten minutes after. The next morning, she told me that she woke up and saw me sitting right next to her playing on my phone. What's weird is that I'm not known for sleepwalking, and she's not known for sleep paralysis. The story creeps me out to this day. Edit: I forgot to mention that she remembers being fully conscious. Another thing is that she has an unfinished room in her basement and has seen some weird things.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
The worst i can think of was when I was maybe 19/20 years old. I had a neighbor I was friends with at the time. His house and my house were within walking distance. His parents were not home. This was on a Friday or Saturday night. Went down to his house to do some drinking. Don't recall how late it was but when went home as I am walking home I look up and see a light rectangular objectve in front of me. It only lasted a few seconds i believe. Scared me. I was hallucinating.
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 11 months ago
The one I have is from broad daylight. I was driving on 285 in Denver headed towards the mountains when I saw a large angular shape in the sky that looked like a building in an art deco style, pretty high in the sky. I guess it was a hot air balloon but the shape had hard angles. No one else seemed to be concerned and that’s a busy highway so I couldn’t rubber neck it to figure out what it was. Still baffled twenty years later. Every now and then, as with this article, I will think of it and try to figure out what it was. Never had anything like it happen again. It was really large, too. I don’t think it was an optical illusion where I was seeing something on land through clouds. No explanation.
Bored Trash Panda 11 months ago
I used to live in Hawaii on Oahu. There is a cemetery in Mililani that had this statue of Mary or something along those lines, can't remember. Well, supposedly if you drive around it a few times then face it with your headlights on it moves. We decided to try it and, of course, nothing happened. Well we went around it one more time to turn around and head home and the car died, wouldn't start for a couple minutes. It finally started and we hightailed it outta there. We stopped at a store near my house and when we looked at the car there were handprints all over it that looked like they were pushing us in the opposite direction.
Bored Trash Panda 11 months ago
Another one in Hawaii. We were driving up to a secluded area to use my telescope to see a comet. The road we were on was a one lane road, so when another car came from the other way, we had to drive onto the giant dirt mound on the side of the road. My friend had a huge lifted truck, so no problem. Well, since it was really tall, we could see into other cars really well. A car came by so we had to pull over, we looked in the car, which had a light on inside, and there was no one in the car. Really creepy.
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 11 months ago (edited)
I had gone shopping in a nearby town that I used to get to by a short-cut down a dark rural road. That night, I was sure I saw a small brown dog run across the road directly in front of me. Since it was kind of the middle of nowhere, I decide to see if the dog was OK and thinking maybe I should rescue it. I turned the car around and saw the same brown shape run across the road in the other direction. It was an old brown plastic shopping bag blowing in the breeze.
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