If I was going down a creepy road at night, Id rather be in a car that on foot - it does
make me feel a lot safer, youre in a metal box and you can get out of there very quickly
- it doesnt mean you always feel safe though - sometimes unexplained or just plain old
creepy things can happen.
I went to Reddit and Thought Catalog and picked the very best, here they are - my name is
Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Night Drive Stories!
Starting off at number 10 we have The Oldsmobile[a].
This one came from Thought Catalog.
One user said -My daughter were driving from Wichita Falls, TX to Oklahoma City on I-44
to catch our plane home to PA.
It was 4:05am (I remember because I was afraid we’d miss our flight) & the highway was
empty.
We were almost out of Lawton city limits when we saw an older model car, light blue or silver,
launch off an embankment, roll 3 or 4 times, end over end.
I could actually see a human fly through the air.
I pulled over and called 911 & gave them the GPS coordinates of the overpass.
I asked the dispatch if I should back down the highway and she told me not to because
there was an officer less than 2 mins away.
20 mins later, I get a call from the police, asking exactly where it was.
I repeated the info.
The officer said that he was sitting at that location & there was nothing there.
Not a skid mark, broken glass or flattened grass.
Nothing at all.
When I got home, I googled it.
This what I found out: Exactly ten years prior, a group of teenagers were speeding down a
suburban road when they lost control, flipped over a guide rail & rolled down the embankment.
All 6 kids were killed.
They were driving 1986 Oldsmobile.
The time of the accident…
4:05 am.- … DUH DUH DUHHHH - its a classic case of a phantom crash.
Some people dismiss them but others say that ghosts are formed when people die in intense
moments with unfinished business - a car crash seems like it might fill the bill there …
Moving on to the number 9 spot we have The Cemetery[b].
This one came from Thought Catalog where one girl said -I live in a small town in south
Texas, when I was 19, a boyfriend of mine, myself and two other friends were driving
down an old back road towards a cemetery that hadn’t been used since the 1800s.
It was about 3 am and we pulled up into the cemetery only to see off in the distance four
white hooded figures circling a grave in the distance, we didn’t stay long enough to
investigate.
We turned around and left real quick- … yeah, I think they made the right call there.
People in hoods standing in a cemetery that hasnt been used in well over 100 years - theyre
probably not having a picnic are they.
No sandwiches there.
Coming in at number 8 we have The Fog[c].
This one comes from Thought Catalog where someone said -I was driving home from work
about 2 am, it was a beautiful night so I decided to take a route home that was more
in the country instead of through town.
I had to cross an old bridge that had been there probably 80-100 years.
There’s no houses or lights except my headlights.
Just as my front tires hit the bridge a red fog rolls in across it.
The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I got across that bridge as fast as possible.
After I got across I looked in my mirror and the fog is gone but it looked like someone
was standing in the middle of the bridge.
I mentioned it to my parents the next morning and my dad said he’d always heard stories
about that bridge and supposedly a young lady hung herself from it- … nope nope nope.
If that happened to me, Id just leave the bridge alone - that bridge belongs to the
ghost girl - let her keep it.
Ill go around.
At number 7 now we have The Whisper.[d] This is another one from Thought Catalog where
a guy said -Driving home from work one night, exhausted after working a double shift.
I was on the freeway, & fell asleep behind the wheel.
I heard a woman’s voice, very gentle whisper in my ear, “Wake up.”
Just loud enough to wake me up, but not startle me awake.
Woke up just in time to avoid colliding with a bunch of road construction barrels.
That was like 20 years ago, and I never forgot that voice- … well, its great that they
heard that whisper - it might have saved their life - but its still really creepy.
What do you think is this explanation for this?
Was it just a voice in their head or something more supernatural?
At number 6 now we have The Dogs Eyes[e].
ShepBigStrongFella on Reddit said -I was driving a van across Switzerland on the autobahn in
the dark very little lighting as I came down the hillside into a valley I noticed what
I thought was a man running down the right hand lane in the distance it's 2-2.30 am,
some moonlight , as I get closer he's running really strangely like loping so as I'm going
past him ( I'd decided not to stop ) Out of politeness and not to blind him I flick my
main beams off and as I do it he , it turned his head and his eyes reflected like a dog
every hair stood up on my body and I put my foot down there were no woods around or houses
and the nearest town most of been 30 miles truly terrifying- … I think thats creepy
- whenever someone shows an animalistic nature, even if its the accidental reflection from
their eyes, its pretty terrifying stuff.
Moving on to number 5 we have The Stranger.
This one comes from Reddit user Smuphy72.
He said -I used to work second shift got off around 11:30 one night, drove over to my girlfriend's
house and stayed there for few hours.
A pretty bad thunderstorm starts up and I decide to head home.
(My dog hates storms didn't want to leave her alone.)
There's two ways back to my house from hers, one runs through town and takes 20 minutes
or so, one is a single lane dirt road and only takes about 8 minutes.
This night I chose the dirt road, there are 0 houses on this dirt road for about an 8
mile stretch.
It's raining hard as hell, I'm in the middle of the Alabama backwoods creeping down this
dirt road, I come around a curve and there is a very large man standing right in the
middle of the road, wearing a black hoodie with his hood up, dark colored pants, and
dark shoes.
I slammed on the brakes and stopped, he takes a few steps towards my truck, and I freaked
out and threw my truck into reverse, backed up, and he runs towards me and then darts
into the woods.
Due to being in the middle of nowhere I didn't have cell reception so as soon as I got home
I called the cops and reported it.
Two nights later a woman had a similar experience he actually tried to get into her car.
Police searched the woods several times and found a "camp" but never found the guy.- … that
guy had a camp.
When you think of camp, you might think of summer camp or going camping with friends
- a murderers camp though - no thanks.
Moving on to number 4 we have The Ent[f].
Driving in the dark with my wife down a small country lane (rural Kent, UK).
Trees both sides of the road, this particular part was a long steep hill going up and it
was a fairly foggy night.
Just two cars, me in front and this guy behind me, not close, who'd been there for a few
miles.
Suddenly this giant shadowy tree ent-like figure literally loomed up and grew out of
the road at the top of the hill...
I practically shit myself and started to slow, my wife made an odd noise as she noticed it
as well…
Was literally just a weird artifact of my headlights, the guy behind me headlights some
tree branches and all reflecting off / onto the fog like a screen.
Not unexplainable but definitely the scariest in the moment!- … yeah, Im sure thats totally
explainable.
Probably just a strange shadow.
Or, the human brain playing tricks.
Or - or maybe it was an actual ent and the trees have come to life to take their revenge
upon humanity.
All valid theories.
Next up at number 3 we have The Friendly Advice.
This one came from Creepy Catalog where someone said -I had pulled over one night to fuss
at my two young children.
A car pulled up beside me and told me that there had been a wreck over the next hill
and traffic was stopped.
They suggested that I take a side road that detours the wreck.
I thanked them and they left.
I decided not to take that road cause I’m from the country and didn’t want to get
lost.
As I drove by the “detour” road, I looked over and saw the couple had stopped and had
gotten out of their car.
There was nothing but woods all around.
It was just getting dark and that’s all I could see.
The next morning as I drove by the same road, I saw the DEAD END sign just past where the
couple had gotten out of their car.
Still gives me chills when I drive past it now and it’s been 15 years since it happened!-
… how creepy would that be knowing that those people were probably planning to jump
you.
Moving on to number 2 we have The Flames[g].
Volunteer Magic said -I was on a road trip with my my wife at the time and her kid.
I believe this happened after we passed through New Mexico and went into Texas.
It was 3 AM and we come up over a large hill and everything is on fire.
Just fields and fields of fire.
It looked like the goddamn apocalypse.
I had no clue what I was looking at, but my wife at the time and her kid were completely
asleep, so I had no one that could bear witness to this, and I didn’t want to wake anyone
up because...wow, how’d you like it if someone woke you up and everything was on fire?- ...thats
sounds pretty terrifying, can you imagine waking up in the car and just seeing fire,
everywhere, as far as the eye can see?
Some people suggested that its probably farmers doing controlled burns, a fairly common practice
in tall grass prairies.
Thats a comforting explanation to hear - but probably no help when youre in the middle
of it …
And finally at number 1 we have White T Shirt and Jeans[h].
Coming home from a night shift, driving down a back road I’d traveled (literally) thousands
of times.
On one side of the road, there is a six foot drop on to train tracks; the other side runs
vertically up a hillside approx 25 miles – no guard rails.
In my headlights, I saw a young man dressed in a white shirt and dark pants suddenly dart
out into the road from the hill side, stop in the middle of the road to look at my truck
and then sprint to the other side and down over the embankment.
I slammed on my breaks, got out with the flashlight from under my seat and ran to the the track
side thinking he HAD to be hurt.
Nothing.
Absolutely quiet except the sound of my truck engine.
I got home (which took all of about 5 minutes in my mind, since I was shaking so hard) and
said something to my Dad.
He grinned from ear-to-ear and told me it was probably the guy who was killed on that
road when my Dad was in high school.
“White T-shirt and Jeans was what he was wearing.
Whoever hit him ditched his body on the tracks and left.
Sheriff found him the next morning.
He does that every once in a while to people driving that road alone late at night.
Scared the crap outta you, didn’t he?”
I laughed and nodded- … OK, the ending to that story was a bit weird, I wonder why they
were laughing about it - probably just nervous laughter.
Allllright, that was another set of stories for the bookshelf.
Don't forget to check out our other story videos, one of them may be appearing at the
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for watching as always guys, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!