Long haul truckers share their CREEPIEST PARANORMAL stories (r/AskReddit)

long-haul truckers what's the creepiest / most paranormal thing you've seen on the road at night maybe a bit off the mark but it still scared the crap out of me I was headed west on a 76 here in Denver just cruising along at about 70 miles per hour out of nowhere I saw a massive almost solid cloud of what looked to be dirt coming at me I'd say it was at least 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall I scanned ahead of me but couldn't see any vehicle it could have came from with nowhere to go I slowed down and took the hit hoping there wasn't anything big enough in there to come through the windshield or jack up my truck owner / operator it was pretty loud as I smashed through it the instant it hit I knew it wasn't dirt though I immediately hit the washers because I couldn't see a damn thing through all of the carnage my windshield was painted with guts turns out it was bees freaking huge bees that sounded like rocks when they hit I can't even imagine seeing that swarm if I was walking they would kill the crap out of anything in their path westbound on 19 bandage and Ellensburg w a young woman in a summer dress and heels walking alone on the shoulder towards Ellensburg no vehicles for miles so I knew she didn't break down if you are familiar with this stretch of 90 you know there aren't any houses either it's desolate I pull over and ask if she needs a ride she gets in says thank you and I immediately see that she's been crying I silently take her to the nearest gas station and let her out she thanks me and tells me her boyfriend had gotten mad at her shortly before I had stopped and kicked her out dude if you're reading this I hope you rot in hell well I'm not a trucker but a motorcyclist which kinda makes it even more spooky drove home from my gfs house just a twenty minutes ride but it was 3 a.m. and the road goes through a forest without any streetlights so I ride through the forest already giving everything my little 50 CCM dirtbike headed it back then and suddenly on the side of the road a dunking naked mannequin is standing I saw it appear in my headlights and drove by it only doing like 60 km/h it was scary as hell a duck and mannequin standing there naked on the side of a dark road in a forest at 3 a.m. in the morning damn I still get the shivers I picked up a hitchhiker in my small Nissan Versa Sedan and we were driving down the freeway there was a big vehicle in front of me so I couldn't see what was in front of that when all of a sudden the other guys start yelling tire tire and pointing ahead of us I slammed on my brakes just in time to see the SUV in front of us swerved too late as the car in front of it swerved as this massive tire that was rolling down the freeway demolished the front end of the vehicle in front of me and bound it high into the air coming down in front of my car where the steel band broke and it stopped rolling if I hadn't slammed on the brakes it probably would have come down on top of me he got out at the next gas station I don't remember his name but I think he saved my life that day a good friend of mine told me the story years ago he is a the stereotypical old big bad trucker I've seen some weird stuff with him while driving in South Texas along the border he never batted an eye but while telling me this story he had goose bumps in a concerned expression which from this guy is about the equivalent of a trembling lip and crap stain pants I'll tell this story and the first person as he told it to me years ago in the late 90s I was on my way from the house central Texas heading to Laredo to pick up a load it was early morning around 4 or 5 I had just come off a string of days at home so I know I wasn't tired I am on one of those two lane winding roads in the absolute middle of bum duck know where when I see something on the side of the road at the edge of my high beams at first I just thought it was roadkill as is usually the case as I get closer I see that it is roadkill and there's someone crouching over the deer carcass I remember thinking either this guy's taking the antlers as a trophy or he's ducking SiC as I got closer still I can now see that's this guy's eating the ducking deer he's pulling chunks of meat from the stomach and bringing them up to his face at this point he stops mid motion and looks up at me not at my truck but at me he slash it stands up and that's when I see that it's stuck in huge brown and covered in hair I remember thinking at this point Oh duck this thing is standing on the tiny shoulder looking at me by this point maybe three seconds have passed and I'm about to the point in the road he's standing at I didn't even think of stopping in fact I'm star to lay on it and get the hell out of there as I'm passing it it's looking at me again not at the truck it's looking through the driver's side windshield at me he obviously has the intelligence to know that there's a driver in here and knows where I'm sitting as I start to pass him I can still see its head above the hood of an old needlenose Pete old truck design where the hood goes straight out from the windshield known for being tall and difficult to see around this thing is ducting giant I remember seeing what looked like human intelligence in its eyes it scares the crap out of me sorry for the wall of text it's a story where it's sharing though TLDR Bigfoot eating a deer on the side of road I am a log truck driver in the Pacific Northwest we go up into the woods on logging roads and haul logs back from the loggers to sawmills we start work very early in the morning 2:00 to 5:00 a.m. so it's nighttime obviously one of my co-workers pulled away from the job and started down the logging road after a couple miles after the load had settled a bit he decided to pull over and throw his remaining wrappers around the load as he is tying his load down he looked back and saw a mountain lion watching him from 10 feet off of the end of his trailer he slowly backed up to his driver door and got in by the time he looked in his mirror the lion had disappeared not paranormal but it's damn sure creepy we see lions and bears fairly often out there but to be that close and out of the truck we faced different obstacles up in the woods than highway drivers okay so here is a spook for you and to this day I still have no idea WTF so I was in the VA / MD area and had a lot of work-related sites ranging from downtown Baltimore to Virginia Beach and all around Friday wrapped up and I hit the road to some social arrangements I had made for the weekend spent the weekend with friends out in various parts of VA got dragged off to other places even further out the usual weekend fun times it's late Sunday night when I have to leave or I'm not going to be able to get home in time to start my thankfully late afternoon Monday I'm fully rested I didn't do any drinking I'm not into drugs on the highway at about 3 a.m. in the middle of bombed out know where between Roanoke and DC abs nobody around I'm cruising along in the left lane simply because nobody else is around no headlights for the past hour no taillights either no road lamps either it's dark it's mildly damp it's foggy I have the music up I'm feeling good all is fine and then I just happen to look to the left and there is a ducking dog barking at me a German Shepherd in a car passenger seat somewhat blue glow from the instruments inside the car and it's got its face to its window and it's sparking its head off at me I get a good hard look at it too because at first my brain is not registering cop car dummy I'm doing 90 plus and a 75 I promptly have the oh [ __ ] moment when the dog the instruments the white Crown Vic / light barrel click in my brain after a second hard look I put my foot on the brakes and start slowing down hard but safe to pull over I even put my blinker on to start shifting lanes over to the right to pull over because wait there is no shoulder on the left side of this road I look back to my left where there is still no shoulder / room for another car and it's just gone no trace I slammed my brakes and stopped in the middle of the ducking highway flipped on all my light bars and even looked around with my hand held spot there was nothing no taillights no headlights no engine sounds nothing there are no other tyre marks in the damp but mine and I can see for a nice long distance both ways - nothing my vehicle had great visibility and a lot of extra lighting off-road SUV with the trimmings there is no possible way somebody pulled a sneaky let alone drove that fast on wet sloped grass and rocks on my left side so yep there you have it ghost cop and his dog didn't like me speeding apparently tongue my dad has several stories from hauling logs in Idaho and driving trucks through Utah and Nevada my favorite is from actually just in his pickup going through Utah he said there was a light keeping pace with him out in the desert on a moonless night it kept pace for a minute before it disappeared and his truck turned off he stopped and turned it on and pulled off at the next diner the folks in the diner called it a common occurrence the creepiest is when he was hauling logs in Idaho and was coming down from near Coeur d'Alene area during a snowy winter night he was putting on chains before heading down steep grade and said all of the hair stood up on his body it felt like there was something watching him halfway down the switchbacks he saw a large figure standing on a 20-foot tall embankment as he got closer it jumped down and the shoulders were as tall as the cab in a single bound it left down and then left over to the other side of the embankment at the time he thought it was a sasquatch now he says it was probably a demon trying to make him crash he didn't stop to remove the chains until he was well away from the mountain I'm a stand-up comic I often refer to my profession as being a trucker with jokes near the north end of mainland Michigan I saw a car stopped on the side of the highway we hadn't seen a car for a while it was 2:00 a.m. I commented to my buddy poor bastard but as we passed the car the lights came on and it got back on the road odd timing and then it was gaining on us I told my friend to speed he did he spent more in the car kept closing in we were doing 120 and this guy was catching up to us we saw an exit with a hotel so we took it and drove right in front of the building where it was well-lit and we could see the front desk clerk the car got off that exit too it drove into the hotel parking lot then turned around and got back on the highway I'll never know what that guy wanted from us I'm fine with that remaining a mystery my dad told me and my brothers this story when we were growing up and it's always stuck with me particularly on long drives when I'm feeling a bit sleepy the first time I remember hearing it was after I asked him if angels were real I was probably 7 or 80 oh he drove trucks decades ago before I was born and before labor laws around limits and brakes were more standard I'm assuming it's different now he'd fairly regularly accept calls that would extend a shift to where he was driving 24 36 hours were more without a break longer than a quick bathroom or fast-food stop my dad has a pretty mathematical brain he's the type to make up logic puzzles out of something totally mundane just for fun whenever we were driving around town he'd regularly ask me things like how long would it take us to get from home to the store if we were going 30 miles per hour but had to stop for five minutes in the middle because a family of kittens were crossing the road etc he'd come up with similar equations for himself while he was driving solo that involved things he was seeing like the odometer mileage markers the time and then he could test his speed based on the equation etc one night after having already driven a particularly long day he noticed his eyes getting droopier and the whole roll down the window and blast the music up thing didn't seem to be helping much it was a rainy night on a pretty windy mountain road without a shoulder to pull over safely so he started doing those logic games out loud to keep alert and awake he was saying something to the effect of I just past mile marker 146 so what time will it be when I reached 200 if I'm going 55 miles per hour then he closed his eyes took a deep breath and felt his head do the nod jerk thing which woke him up with a gasp he opened his eyes to see he was driving straight towards mile marker 158 which would have sent his whole truck tumbling down a random-ass Mountain ravine he was able to correct the course safely back but it was a matter of seconds between that reality and certain death he insists to this day that he slept through 12 miles of windy mountain road going 60 plus mile per hour only to wake up right at the last moment between life and death the story usually ends with him tearing up saying I don't know if there's angels but I know there's something bigger going on in this universe than our human brains have been able to understand yet if I wouldn't have woken up right when it did you kids wouldn't be here today and that's something that feels pretty close to spiritual edit thanks for the gold kind stranger now to finally figure out what this gold thing is all about smile my grandfather was in the Air Force and one night he was driving back to his base maybe I can't quite remember and he saw a woman standing on the side of the road in a long white dress at about 2:00 a.m. he circled back to ask if she needed help and she was nowhere to be seen he searched for her for about and before giving up and deciding to leave it alone when he decided to go on his way he had a strong feeling that he needed to switch lanes he was on the road alone in the middle of the night so he had no idea why and just ahead on the road there was a broken-down truck with no hazards on that he would have hit and probably been killed by if he stayed in the lane he had been in to this day his convinced the woman was trying to warn him like an omen or something I was 23 my newly married husband and I decided driving team would be a fun adventure after college rather than jumping into the 9 to 5 I was down in Arizona on a long stretch of nothing about 4 a.m. when a guy pulled up next to me waving his CB I never left my nan listening to those guys BS was irritating I turned on my CB and he told me I had a blown tire I thanked him figuring I would stop at the next truck stop he kept harassing me to pull over and check my tire for a good 40 miles I finally got to a next town and pilot truck stopped got out and checked my truck no blown tires anywhere no clue what that guy would have done to me but so glad I trusted my gut and didn't stop not paranormal but I have plenty of stories as a young woman on the road in the early 1990s I was driving from a small town in Ontario Canada to Florida I just got past the border at around 3 a.m. and found out one of the roads I needed to turn on was closed there was no one around so I looked at my map and decided to turn around and take a different road as I made the turn I immediately knew that I shouldn't go this way it was a tiny one-way street and there was trash scattered all over it looked like a huge group of people were just there but there was no one no street lights no other cars or houses or any reason for anyone to be out there I was so creeped out that I turned around and went the correct way this story isn't paranormal but it is unusual there was also a time where it was late at night again and I was near Renfrew Ontario driving on an old bumpy twisty road there was no one around I looked to my left and I saw a face it looked like a horse I immediately stopped my car and noticed that there was a horse following me after a few minutes another car pulled up and they were looking for the horse this one ended well with a farmer taking the horse back it really freaked me out though not a trucker but I've driven cross-country a few times have two free key things that have happened first middle of the night with a buddy and we pulled off to the side of the highway to take a piss and switch drivers nobody else around on the road I walked to the side pitchblack whip it out and start to pee my buddy is just stretching his back or whatever I heard something in the woods shake a tree no other way to describe it a tree about 30 feet away shook then I hear something big crashing through the woods coming straight for us in the car my buddy and I don't even say anything he dives in the driver side and I jumped through the passenger window pants still down he floors it out of their legs and pants dangling outside never did see anything in the rearview mirror but there was something out there coming at us my buddy likes to say he heard me stop peeing when that tree shook second I was so low somewhere in West Virginia again middle of the night I got off an exit one of those long curvy ones I saw lights before I got off and assumed it was exit stuff or maybe even construction get to the exit in it's not construction it's a ton of Army or National Guard guys the exit was lit up brighter than daytime so many lights set up pointing everywhere the army guys were completely decked out gas masks on an assault rifles they were sprinting around one guy at the corner was frantically waving me through to get back on the highway I gunned it out of there looked in the news later and didn't see anything no idea what was going on that night not a long-haul trucker but thought this would fit here also on mobile so sorry for format my mom sister and I were on my our way to a baseball game of mine during my junior year of high school this was in northern New York so spring got a little chilly at times the main road we took stretched about 35 miles and was nothing but cornfields and tree lines we hit a stretch of the road that was super foggy for no reason so my mom slowed down to a proper speed we finally reached the end of the fog and we all looked to the left to see where we were about 50 yards from the road was a man and woman in what appeared to be wedding clothing from at least 100 years ago man wearing a big top hat on the woman wearing a very old-looking white dress holding hands with her backs to us walking towards the wood line we drove past and I just remember the silence in the car until my mom said what the duck was that till this day whenever we are together and one of us tells this story we all get goose bumps this is my father's story and he wasn't a long-haul trucker but rather a 18 year old gas station attendant in the late 70s and without a certain long-haul trucker I probably wouldn't be here the gas station was 24 hours and my dad was the only one working the night shift 11:00 to 7:00 I think a guy comes in and just gives him the creeps seems sketchy he was wearing tight jacket slash pants and you could tell he had something in his pants under the jacket it was during the summer and was warm so why is he wearing a jacket to begin with it was later confirmed he was on drugs a lot of truck drivers used this station as it was the only one open 24 hours for a long stretch of the highway they also had a big lot where they let truckers park and sleep or take a break on this night at this time it was just my dad sketchy dude and one trucker in there he kind of knew as in came in frequent enough to be conversational and asked if he'd stay in the station and hang out until sketchy dude left well after looking at the stock shelves for several minutes while sneaking peeks at my dad behind the counter the sketchy guy eventually looked fed up and got into his blue car and sped off cool trucker guy hung out with my dad a little longer until another couple of guys came in to use the booths they had to eat a sandwich I should also point out this was pretty middle of nowhere rural Southeast United States in the 1970s CB and landline was it my dad only had a landline in the store dad did not have any protection or weapon of any kind so the hours pass and my dad had shaken off the paranoia when all of a sudden this guy in a car comes hauling ass into the lot jumps out and Sprint's into the store hollering he needs a phone he didn't have a CB nor did he see a phone at the other station he also wasn't familiar with the area and my dad's station was the first place he found calls 9-1-1 to report that he had walked it on a gas station 40 miles back next closest station to find the attendant shot and dead no one else around and the only other piece of information is that a blue car was speeding out of a lot when a trucker pulled in apparently they eventually apprehend the guy in the blue car my dad confirms it was sketchy dude from earlier in the night and they charged him with murder and armed robbery to the long-haul trucker who waited around with my dad that night thanks and hope you're keeping it real also worth adding that apparently sketchy guy in blue car was already a bad apple who was either being looked for her on probation or something he was in the system edit I'm editing this a couple months later but I recently talked with my dad and he cleared a couple things up so anything in bold above is edited it's not much but there it is when I was a kid I grew up in the cab of my father's truck he was a single father and I was on the road with him quite a bit occasionally if he was going to pass near my grandmother's house he would drop me off there for a week or so I'm sure to give himself a break from a very young son in a very tight space one time when he was nearing my grandmother's house I remember crying because I didn't want him to drop me off I loved my grandmother very much but I was attached to my father for some reason separation anxiety I'm sure thanks mom as I was sobbing I started recognizing my surroundings and knew we were close I decided the next song on the radio was going to be dad's song so every time I heard it I would think of him I guess that's why they call it the blues by Elton John came on the radio so that chipper tune became the song I used to remember him that was in the early 80s and I can't remember hearing that song over the last 20 plus years three years ago I was driving to see my dad in the hospital and I stopped at a truck stop for gas and snacks what song should start playing over the truck stop speakers but I guess that's why they call it the blues I got a sick nervous feeling was this a good omen or bad one I'm not superstitious so I tried to dismiss it and chalked it up to chance April 11th will be three years since I lost him surely it was just a random occurrence that I would hear that song going to see him for the last time right I'm not superstitious or religious but I sure would like to see the old man again someday not a truck driver but I've crossed the states many many times in my career I used to tour manage a band that consisted of four musicians and two crew so it was a total of seven of us we would often drive a white Sprinter van with a haul trailer on the back and if you're familiar with Who hall you know they have different pictures on the sides of them often estate and something significant from that state painted on the side we were about an hour outside of Roswell New Mexico at 2:00 a.m. it was in the summer we were coming from having just played the New Mexico State Fair in every direction around us it was pitch black no lights from cities or even rest stops no other cars nothing we have absolutely no phone signal all of our phones say no signal at the same time it's a two-lane highway the only illumination coming from our headlights we haven't seen another car for a very long time suddenly on the horizon we see a light appear directly ahead of us we keep driving normally and the light is approaching us quickly we rightly just assume it's another car coming our way on the other side of the highway but then as the vehicle goes to pass us it's a wide Sprinter van towing a haul trailer with the exact same state artwork as ours on the side same tires same model van same trailer same everything and as soon as we pass it it's gone all of us very uncomfortably said the same thing at the same time was that did that vent have the same what are the chances I'll never forget it we couldn't do anything but just on comfortably acknowledged we all saw the same thing and none of us were losing our minds [Music]

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Published: Sat Sep 21 2019