Nighttime is really its own special world, even in the 21st century where we are, generally, aware that there aren’t monstershiddenaround 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.
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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 familiarWith 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 upHaving a broken collar bone and a mildConcussion).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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 carBoyfriend 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.
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 st like “we f*g know where you live! Fk 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 =(.
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.
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 doorsEdit - spellin’.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 headEdit: spelling.
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.
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