Endless Night: Truckers Reveal Their Creepiest Stories On The Road
There’s nothing creepier than a long road on a dark night, and no one understands this better than long-haul truckers.
Day after day, they drive through big cities, small towns, and the eerie no man’s land in between. And when night falls, well, strange things can happen.
These are truckers’ most chilling experiences on the road.
1. The Disappearing Woman
My uncle said one night he was sleeping above his trailer bed when suddenly in the distance, he could see a small light approaching.
As it got closer, he had a chilling realization. He described seeing a really, really old, wrinkly woman who held a candle, draped in dark gowns.
He said her nails were so long they curled.
She walked into a cave opening, and then disappeared. My uncle said he nope’d out of there real fast.
2. Gone Girl
My cousin works at a truck stop in Kansas. She told me about some guy who parked his truck and got out, and then a woman got out of the passenger seat.
It was kind of cold, so the trucker was wearing a coat and hat. But the woman was wearing summer clothes.
My cousin thought nothing of it and did her whole "Hi, welcome in."
The trucker bought a coffee, but the woman just stood there in the doorway. Now my cousin was freaked out.
She didn't want to be rude, but she was a teenage girl alone in a gas station in the middle of nowhere. "Excuse me miss, do you need anything?"
She asked. "Who are you talking to?" The truck driver asked when he got to the checkout.
"The woman who got out of your truck?" My cousin pointed, but the woman had disappeared. She told me she had never seen a look of such pure terror on a man's face before. He just whispered a quiet "Oh no." Got his coffee and left. The woman did not get back into his truck, and my cousin couldn't find her in the store afterward.
She says it was one of the most terrifying experiences she had ever had while on that job.
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3. A Voice From Beyond
Driving through an abandoned section of Baltimore at 3:00 in the morning, my CB radio turned itself on and crackled for a bit.
Out of nowhere, some voice over the radio said in a deep Southern drawl, “I ain’t got no panties on.”
I could see up and down the interstate for miles, and saw not one set of headlights around me for hours...
4. In Search Of Lost Time
It was summer and my dad’s birthday, so we drove to a casino two hours away to watch a boxing match with my uncle.
It finishes, and we drive back the same night. We're nearing a canyon with no phone reception, so we call my mom and tell her we'll be home soon.
The canyon usually takes about 30 minutes with no traffic, and it's around midnight.
So we enter the canyon and we're all pretty tired. To keep us talking, we start telling stories, most of them creepy stories. This goes on for a while and it feels like time is passing in a haze. We pass this part of the canyon and suddenly I get deja vu. I'm convinced we already passed that before. All of us have driven this canyon a hundred times and know the layout.
We keep talking, and then we pass the same part again. This time, I point it out and my dad and uncle notice the time—it's 1:00 AM, and we're still not home.
So we all start to freak out. We stop talking and just watch the road slowly pass by. Now that we're paying attention, though, time seems to catch up.
We exit the canyon around 1:15 AM and call my mom, who is freaked out she hadn't heard from us.
We still to this day have no idea where that extra 45 minutes went.
