Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we’re talking about the top 10 scary road
trip stories!
I love a good road trip!
The best I have ever taken was probably from Tucson Arizona to San Francisco, stopping
at the Grand Canyon, Vegas and Venice beach in between!
The scariest thing I saw on that trip was a tumbleweed….
But for the people in the stories on this list, things were a little more terrifying!
Before we get into the list – why don’t you let me know your ideal road trip jaunt
in the comments section down below.
10 - The Delivery Man Of course, this creepy story happened around
Death Valley – a hot hot hot and sparse sparse sparse desert in East California.
This story comes from a Reddit user who shares an experience their parents had around 20
years ago.
They said that their parents were planning on a weekend trip to a hotel around 30 minutes
outside of Death Valley town, right in the middle of the desert.
When they got to the place they were staying it looked totally …totally abandoned.
The dad got out of the car to look around and the mum stayed inside.
Out of nowhere a guy holding a bunch of newspapers turned up and starting approaching the mum,
who’s window in the car was open.
He said his motorbike had broken down and that he delivered papers to Death Valley town,
and if he didn’t get them there, he would lose his job.
The mum couldn’t see the motorbike and had a bad feeling.
The guy begged her to let him in the car and she refused.
Eventually, the dad came back and the paper delivery guy looked panicked, dropped his
papers and walked off into the desert.
When the mum and dad check in to the hotel, the receptionist tells them that they don’t
get newspapers delivered to the hotel.
When the mum and dad look at the newspapers, they date back to 1954.
Was he a murderer or a lost ghost from the 50s?!
9 - Norwegian Mountain Menace This story was posted by Tonberryking on Reddit.
They said that they and their buddy decided to go on a late night drive into the Norwegian
mountains to watch the sunrise at the top across the land.
Sounds nice!
He said that the drive up the mountain is enjoyable, and there is a bar at the top,
although he knew it would be closed at the time of night he and his buddy were driving,
he thought they could sit on the benches outside, take in the view and have a smoke.
On the way up, they saw a person sitting on a boulder.
They only realized what they saw after they had driven by, and as it was late and the
roads can be a bit treacherous, they thought they would reverse back and see if the person
was okay.
Classic polite Norwegians, good on them.
Unfortunately, their kind act led to some serious spooks.
They saw the person was a woman with a long white dress and long beautiful hair.
She turned to look at them when they called out to her, and I’ll read what the redditor
wrote: her face was three time the length of a normal persons face, her eyes were completely
blank and she had a smile on her face.
Creepy.
The redditor said they were nearly paralyzed with fear but they drove on.
The next day, both guys contracted a high fever that lasts for days.
8 - Midnight Scratching So this story comes from a Reddit post around
4 years ago.
It seems that a guy was driving back from a family reunion.
He had decided not to stay the night because he had to work the next day.
After 45 minutes on the road, he said he felt very very tired.
There was no lay by or any place he could park off the road, so he decided to drive
into a field and park his car behind some bushes to hide it from view.
He fell asleep at 11.20 but was woken up 30 minutes later by a scratching sound.
He was tired, looked at the clock and decided to ignore it.
He was then awoken by the same sound 50 minutes later and was super freaked out … this time
he didn’t ignore it.
He thought it could be animals, but what animal continually scratches near a car for an hour?
He looked into his rearview mirror and saw someone or something running into the forest.
He decided to drive off and head back to the road.
As he drove forward, he saw an abandoned car with its door open…he drove closer to investigate
and a man came sprinting around the corner screaming for him to get away from his car.
The guy was pretty terrified and drove off.
He said the moral of the story was not to go sleep at the side of deserted roads.
7 - The Pick Up Trucks This story was submitted to the subreddit,
let’s not meet.
A girl and her friend Amy were driving from Ruidoso to Albuquerque.
As the girls loved exploring, they took the NM55, a more remote road.
They saw a white pick up truck ahead of them in the distance.
When they got closer, the truck turned across both lanes, then pulled off the road.
When they drove by, they noticed the driver was a middle age guy who stared at them intensely
while talking into a walkie-talkie.
When they passed him, he pulled back on to the highway and started following them.
They then noticed another pickup truck slowly coming toward them.
This one was an older, more beat up truck.
When they passed it, they noticed that guy was also talking into a walkie-talkie.
The truck passed then turned to follow them behind the white truck.
The white truck then tried to bump them, but they kept speeding faster.
It then became apparent that the trucks were trying to get the car between them.
Luckily, a US Park Service Car came on to the road from a side road and the trucks both
Uturned.
The girls were freaked out though, which is fair.
6 - Real Life Can Be Scarier Than Any Movie Apparently so!
This story comes from a road trip from Twenty nine Palms, California to Albuquerque New
Mexico.
The driver went through Amboy, a ghost town well below sea level and reportedly a location
for the satanic activity.
The driver stopped by Amboy sign to take pictures to show friends.
As they drove forward through the deserted town and onwards through a canyon, they saw
a red car stopped in the middle of the road.
As they got closer, they saw a suitcase and two bodies laying face down.
Feeling freaked out and uneasy, obviously, the driver drove on, pulling out their 9-millimeter
pistol from under the seat because they had a niggling feeling it was a trap.
When they passed the scene, they looked into the rearview mirror and saw the two so-called
bodies getting up and around 20 people emerging from the long grass.
The driver hit the accelerator and motored forward.
The driver, recalling their experience said: I will never know what would have happened
to me had I gotten out of the car.
Somehow I do not think it would have been good.
Sometimes real life can be scarier than a movie.
Honestly, my life is regularly scarier than a movie.
5 - Nothing Good Happens After 2AM Wait, I feel like that is a How I Met Your
Mother Episode …either way, sometimes I feel like this is definitely true!
A guy wrote a long winding tale about a trip he took from Nashville to Kentucky and back
again.
He had got into a fight with his girlfriend and wanted to drive to blow off steam.
As he was heading to Alabama, he realized he was running low on gas so pulled off interstate
65 and drove off the ramp near a gas station.
This is where he noticed something very strange.
The only other car on the road was stopped at a green light.
It was after 3am and the guy driving figured it was weird but might just have been because
the driver was tired.
When the light turned red the car rolled forward, pulled under the overpass and turned its lights
off.
Creepy.
The driver didn’t want to go forward when the lights went green again, so they waited.
Then when the lights went green a second time, they decided to move, and the car started
following them.
The guy got to the gas station, where there was also luckily a police officer.
The guy following parked at the station to and stared at him then got out and stood at
the back of the line when he went in to pay.
After the road tripper paid, the stalker left the line to follow him again.
The driver said he sped through some red lights in his way home to get away and it is still
the creepiest thing that has ever happened to him.
I visited the Golden Gate Bridge in December, it was beautiful!
That being said I did have a scary time there, but that is a different story for a different
day.
At number 4 we have the story of The Bay Bridge So San Francisco has a number of beautiful
bridges – the Bay Bridge and the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
A man and his granddaughter were driving the epic route from San Diego to Portland and
they were stopping in San Francisco.
They drove over the Bay Bridge and were struck by a diversion.
The diversion led them into a district of town with no street lights and an eerie vibe.
The roads were deserted, but not just that, the streets seemed deserted, too.
A car drive by, but It was a Japanese model 1930s car.
Eventually, the detour took them over the Golden Gate Bridge, which was very dark – with
not even the toll booths open.
The granddaughter, Cate, who was driving started to go over the bridge, but she said she felt
a force trying to turn her around.
Eventually, she managed to drive forwards.
When Cate spoke to one of her friends who lived in San Fran about the experience, they
said that the Golden Gate is lit up and that area couldn’t have been deserted as there
was a festival in town that day.
Okay, we have had loads of fun with Reddit but let's move on to some news officiated
real-life scary road trip stories that made national headlines…
3 - The murder of Peter Falconio This story scares me so much as it is so simple,
so easily replicated.
On July 14th, 2001, Joanne Lees and her boyfriend, Peter Falconio was driving on the Stuart Highway
near Alice Springs in the Australian Outback.
Road tripping around, the couple in their 20s were enjoying a backpacking vacation in
a VW Campervan.
As they were on the road, a driver in a Toyota four-wheel drive flagged them down.
He said he had spotted they had engine trouble, and Peter got out to investigate while Joanne
got into the driver's seat to rev the car.
That is when she heard shots, and the man reappeared at the window, holding his gun
to her head.
He managed to tie her hands behind her back with cable toes and was dragged into the back
of the man's car.
When he was distracted moving Peter’s body, the girl fled into the bush, successfully
hiding.
The man looked for her, passed close by but never found her and drove off with her boyfriend's
body.
Later, Joanne flagged down a road train diver who rescued her.
The body of Peter Falconio has never been found, but the killer was later identified
by DNA on Joanne.
John Murdoch was found guilty and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Not all road trips are taken in cars…a lot of cyclists take road trips – hitting the
pavement with two wheels is sometimes the ultimate way to experience the open road.
Unfortunately what this cyclist discovered will haunt him forever
2 - The Annecy Killings The Al-Hilli family were on a holiday in France
and taking a road trip through the alps when they were shot at in their red BMW.
Parents Saad and Iqbal, and Iqbal’s mother were killed, along with Iqbal’s mother.
The families two daughters were wounded but survived, with their four-year-old found hidden
under her dead mother's legs 8 hours after police got to the scene.
Next to the car, a French cyclist, Sylvain Mollier had also been shot dead.
The scene was discovered by another cyclist, Brett Martin, who rode by the horrifying scene.
While the murder investigation was opened, the perpetrator of the 2012 attack still has
not been found.
Some investigators think that the murders were random…which is scarier…there could
be a deranged killer waiting to strike again.
1 - Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders I would never hitchhike, but probably only
because of stories like this one.
I get it though, it’s a cheap way to take a road trip.
In the 1970s, there was no real frame of reference as to how dangerous hitchhiking could be…
but then the murders started happening.
Between 1972 and 1973 6 women were found dead and naked in rural areas near creeks next
to roads.
All of the girls were female hitchhikers who were traveling around Sonoma County and Santa
Rosa in California.
The murders are unsolved to this day.
So there we have it, that was the top 10 scary road trip stories.