“The spookiest times are things you’re free to’t put your finger on.
Often in the desert.
I was outside of Roswell.
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The colors of the land and night sky just felt strange.
Everything has this purple hue.
Gave me chills.”
No street lights or anything, pitch black.
No other trucks or cars at the stop.
I turn off my lights.
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I switch the truck off.
Lock the truck from both sides.
set my alarm and set my phone above me in the compartment.
No one came up, nor was there any noise at all.
Just quiet, eerie silence.
I grabbed my torch, and jumped down, walked around the truck.
No other trucks were around.
Nor were there any cars.
It was just me and my fully loaded b double.
After around 5 10 minutes of getting fucked around with, I locked up and went to bed again.
Woke up next morning, yawned, fixed myself up along with the bed.
Opened the curtains, and FML theres a cemetery next to the stop where I parked.
xr8turbo
2.
Oddly enough I asked him this question myself a few days ago.
He told me that one night he getting ready to park in a lot next to a truck stop.
He was about 15 miles away from the truck stop he parked at.
He was sleeping in his camper the whole night.
Even then, he still feels uneasy about the whole situation.
Straightretaliation
3.
An invisible person starting shaking the truck
My brother was a truck driver in the 90s/early 2000s.
He just told me this story a few months ago.
He was driving through Pennsylvania on way back to NJ.
He pulled over the side of the road behind 2 other trailers.
Freaked out he looks out that window and theres nothing but silence now.
Hes trying to figure out wtf is going on, seconds later banging on both doors simultaneously.
He said the banging was so loud and heavy the truck was shaking.
Both curtains open, he can see theres no one out there.
He said he felt as if they all had experienced the same thing.
Mpoboy
4.
(He is currently in the hospital due to back problems, there might be a connection).
I might even go back and edit certain parts if I recall something different.
But Ill do my best to summarize.
He started hearing more noises and finally some mumbling from outside.
Clearly, no raccoon, but a couple of guys, maybe 2-3.
Fully convinced this wasnt just an animal, my father tried to get up, but simply couldnt.
It was like he was mentally all there, but his muscles werent responding.
It wasnt anything like sleep paralysis though.
They took all they could find.
He gave my dad a complete patdown.
Pockets of pants and shirt, under his pillow.
Basically anywhere someone might hide something valuable.
Personally, that wouldve freaked me out the most.
And this story in particular isnt too rare out there, he said.
JoeBarge
5.
A woman got decapitated by the wheels of his truck
Like most people here this didnt happen to me.
Except one time, when he told us why he stopped driving trucks.
He was on a long trip from somewhere down in Texas to Boise Idaho.
He didnt have enough time to even hit the brakes, not that it would have helped.
She was decapitated on the spot.
He later found out she was tweaked out.
I dont think even if he wasnt sleep deprived he would have seen her lying in the road.
No one knows who she was, or how she got that far out.
ThatGrillGuy
6.
While every family member knew his stories there was one story, he told and warned about.
Even to me when I was 6 or so.
Moral of the story is to never stay during night in the desert alone…
So instead of drinking in some bar, he decided to sleep a bit at the Atacama desert.
He sleeps and wakes up on someone singing…
He is confused and thinks its the radio but the radio is not on.
Then the singing stops and it sounds more like a scream of help.
Thats when he wants to get out and help, but still he is confused.
It looked like a woman but the face was pitch dark.
He freaks out and drives away, Non stop until he reached home.
Whatever he saw or thought he saw, every time he told the story his face went pale.
Hancock_Hime
7.
This was late November.
The windows were heavily tinted so you couldnt see who was inside.
It was pretty irritating and they continued to do this, so we sped up and eventually lost them.
It began growing dark outside, I was tired, and I fell asleep as my dad continued driving.
At this point the freeway was empty, we had passed the major cities in Texas.
There was nobody else on the road.
I look at my dad who didnt say a word, but continued driving very seriously.
My dads a very confident driver, macho man punch in guy.
When wed slow down, theyd slow down.
When we sped up, so did they.
This is some pretty scary shit when youre in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
Obviously Im panicking (I was 19), like WHATS HAPPENING??
ARE WE GOING TO BE OKAY??
I dont know what theyre trying to do.
Its like a game of cat and mouse, my dad says.
I guess this has been going on for at least 30 minutes.
So my dad decides to end this once and for all.
He starts GUNNING it WAYYYY fast, close to 117-120 MPH until theyre out of sight.
My dad is a VERY calm, stoic man (ex-cop) who never shows emotion.
They just passed us, continued their slow drive down the road, towards the gas station.
corgiboat1
8.
It was too late for him to brake, but why would he?
Its amazing what little kids in a small town will do for fun.
I still feel sick to my stomach after hearing my mom tell that story.
Color_Me_Scarlett
9.
It was really late, so my dad called out and asked if he was okay.
The man kept walking.
My dad said he had a lantern in his hand.
My dad called out again and the man never turned around.
and points to an old ass picture on the wall.
It was a picture of all the rail yard guys from like, over 70 years before.
Sure enough, my dad had seen one of the guys in the photo.
Apparently a lot of people have seen whatever that was and come in asking questions.
ilestledisko
10.
The company I was delivering to was at a dead end just after the tracks.
Of course there wasnt anyone around, just me.
I have a Day cab so I looked all around the truck through the windows and mirrors, nobody.
The road was wide enough that I would have totally seen someone run away after doing it.
Im sure it was something not on this plane and I accept that.
Im sure people had been killed in that area, at some point in the past.
lamborghinime
11.
He drove mostly long haul through the US and has lots of crazy stories.
He pulled up to a truck stop next to another truck.
My Grampa walked by and the pit bull lunged at him, protecting the territory.
He said it was one of the most disturbingly things he ever saw.
A woman was kidnapped from a rest stop in Arizona
Im a female so I getcreeped outa ton.
I drive at night because I think its more peaceful and my husband drives during the day.
I avoid rest stops like the plague because they always seem the creepiest.
I also listen to Forensic Files on the radio while driving and it fuels my paranoia.
I had just been in Arizona a few days prior.
I may not have been at the same one but it still makes me feel vulnerable.
I carry mace everywhere I go now.
BreathofFreshBiscuit
13.
The spookiest times are things you cant put your finger on.
Often in the desert.
I was outside of Roswell.
The colors of the land and night sky just felt strange.
Everything has this purple hue.
the_goose_says
14.
This truck was pulling a trailer full of fuel.
He didnt know what happened until someone told him he was just shot at.
Farmerman1379
15.
I heard the strangest, spookiest noises
I slept in my rig on Waltons Mountain in VA one night…
It wasnt the pitch black darkness that bothered me…
It was the sounds coming from it…
It wasnt animal noises…
I have no idea what it was…
But it creeps me out to this day… DrCallow
16.
This was a common enough things that lot lizards frequented the area.
zombiemann
17.
Every night driving down a supply road a certain tree would bang on his roof.
He got sick of it so stopped the truck to climb up and cut the hanging branches.
He shone the torch up all on his own on a dark road… and it was legs.
Traitors were hung there apparently.
He only drove the route at night so didnt see.
Brummiediv
18.
He was half asleep while driving so Im sure that woke him up.
NathanShirls101
19.
I venture to pull over so that they can get around, heart beating and very scared.
They pull over behind me.
So I take off and have a go at lose them.
Regardless this emergency was happening now and I needed to deal with it.
It was a fight or flight situation, and my flight was not working.
So, I decided to fight.
They had thrown it in reverse, and were backing up.
I could see inside of their truck and it looked like some teenagers on the bench seat.
BeardsuptheWazoo
20.
Flashing police lights, mega-phone instructions, police escort.
Had a load of Tubes, I pictured pipes of some kind.
Turns out it was a load of old cathode-ray picture tubes for recycling.
They give off faint radiation and tripped the sensors.
Spent 4 hours in a cinder block room without my phone or passport.
Finally released, almost out of hours of service, pulled into the first truck stop I could find.
They told me they charged 10 bucks to park there.
This is almost unheard of, most truck stops want you there because youre going to spend money.
Also rolled past Gary, Indiana which is infamous for murdering truck drivers.
Glad to be Canada-only now… eyesofglass
