Real Horror Stories From The Internet

I am a trucker and I have seen some unexplainable things in my 12-year-long career. Out of all the possible incidents that come to my mind, I have one specific memory etched in my memory. A few years ago, I was driving through a native land in New Mexico on Highway 491. Now note this, Highway 491 used to be Route 666. Yes, the notorious Route 666. But they changed it a few years back. I’m not sure why that happened, but it might have had to do with the negative press it had garnered, over the decades. Anyways, I’m on my regular route driving through that route. By the middle of the night, I'm in the middle of the desert. There were no lights or civilization for miles. Not that I was expecting to see them, but I was literally in the middle of nowhere. I was listening to loud music just so I would stay awake when up in the sky, there was a huge, orange flash. It is hard to explain how it looked, but the orange flash quickly inflated into a giant ball in the sky. From where I was look...

Now this one might not be a scary story as such, but it was scary for me. I was driving across Kent, Texas. There is an old Chevron station over there,  and it seems like FedEx drivers like stopping in there in droves. Well my guess is that it's a popular drop and hook point for them or something. I never really stopped there since I never cared, and moreover, I had my own designated stops. But one fine day, I stopped there, as I needed to take a piss. I don't know why I didn't stop in Van Horn, which was barely a few miles before, but whatever. So I pull off, and I roll up to the empty lot across the street. Now just so you know, Kent is an abandoned town. I walk up to the bush line, and notice a makeshift fire pit. The wood is somewhat burned, but not all the way. The weird thing is that there's an unscathed dollar bill, stuck in the wood. For a second I was like "Oh piece of candy!", but then this sudden feeling of nope came over me.   So I left it alone an...

Okay so I’ll list some states. Firstly New Mexico, then Nevada and Utah. These are some of the states that to this day, I still see random stuff in the skies that I simply cannot explain. Sometimes lights rapidly change directions, and take off at blinding speeds, but no sound barrier being broken.  As a trucker, I have also seen some lights hovering over the desert, several miles off the interstate. Then it suddenly takes off and the lights are cut out. Not only that, but there are various shapes and sizes of it from what I can make out, while I drive at night. Yes, the visibility is low, but that helps me see those shape of lights distinctly. Just so you know, I know the military aircraft pretty well, and some of the lights were more than likely those aircraft. But some of them absolutely can not be any military aircraft currently in mainstream use. Conventional aircraft do not move like that. The most vivid one would be at an off ramp in New Mexico. One day, I was driving for ho...

I remember one occasion when I was driving in Arizona. It was a shocking moment for me. A lady was begging for money, which isn't uncommon at truck stops. One usually expects beggars to approach for money. So the lady approached me. She gave me the whole sob story of her boyfriend who left her, she didn't have a job, lost the apartment, her two kids were hungry, and she didn't know what to do. Me being a social creature, I let the conversation go on for some reason. To make it short, she was molested by her father as a child, forced on several occasions in her teen years, and then found a lesser evil boyfriend, who tried to get her into drugs, got her pregnant, and beat her all the time. Now I have heard that kind of story from beggars all the time, but just in case she was telling the truth, I gave her what I had in my pockets. It ended up being roughly over 60 dollars. She broke down and cried right there, and then I started to wonder if maybe she was telling the truth. S...

When it comes to my scariest truck-driving memory, reminds me of the last time I was in New Mexico. That day, I was coming from Colorado. It was a long day, and after driving for over 3 hours, I generally take a short break to loosen up. I parked on the side, took a piss, and stretched all my muscles. I had specifically stopped at an off-ramp, mainly to shut down for some sleep. At first, I had some trouble falling asleep. It had to do with the risks that I was putting myself into. I had heard so many accounts of my fellow drivers, who had stopped at such random spots. And then woken up to being attacked by some animal, or burglars, or some creepy unexplainable phenomenon. But I really needed some rest. And a quick short one to be honest. I was not planning on sleeping for hours. All I needed was a power nap. So I set alarm for 15 minutes and dozed off. Before sleeping, I did make sure that the windows were closed and the doors were locked tight. Maybe it was the fatigue, but I slipped...