What is the most horrifying experience you had while on the road?

613009

{"replyTo":"","text":"I used to work with an ex-trucker who once had a woman commit suicide by jumping in front of his truck. He hasn't driven since and now spends his time working with troubled people. He was never quite the same after that happened.\r\nShe apparently had a history of depression and left a suicide note in her house. The family didn't want to sue or anything. They said they felt terrible for him that she chose to go that way and didn't want to put him through any additional grief.","replyToPid":0}

613107

{"replyTo":"","text":"I slept in my rig on Walton’s Mountain in VA one night… It wasn’t the pitch black darkness that bothered me… It was the sounds coming from it… It wasn’t animal noises… I have no idea what it was… But it creeps me out to this day","replyToPid":0}

613017

{"replyTo":"","text":"My Grandad was a truck driver in Korea when he was in the army post WW2. Every night driving down a supply road a certain tree would bang on his roof. He got sick of it so stopped the truck to climb up and cut the hanging branches. He shone the torch up all on his own on a dark road… and it was legs. Traitors were hung there apparently. He only drove the route at night so didn’t see.","replyToPid":0}

613182

{"replyTo":"","text":"There was a story on here a while back by a trucker who shared his creepiest experience while out on the road. It was getting very late (and very dark) so he pulled into a rest area off the highway in the middle of nowhere. The place was totally empty, meaning there weren't any other vehicles or people there. While he was getting some shut eye inside his truck, he heard a faint sound of a barking dog that seemed to get louder and louder as time went by. Eventually the nasty barking sound was coming from right outside his driver side door. As he got up to look in the window, he didn't see a rabid dog but instead it was some crazy-eyed person looking directly at him, growling and trying to get in. He started the engine and got the heck out of there.","replyToPid":0}

613185

{"replyTo":"","text":"On Halloween last year I saw a pale lady in a white dress walking around with what looked like a baby in her hands. I was driving down the interstate when this happened and even stopped but she walked into the woods. I have no idea if this was a prank, if she needed help or if this was a freaking ghost but it scared the hell out of me.","replyToPid":0}

615433

{"replyTo":"","text":"A few years back, I was traveling through Ute native land in New Mexico on Highway 491. 491 used to be Route 666, but they changed it a few years back. I think people were stealing the signs. Anyways, I'm in the middle of the desert around midnight, no lights or civilization for miles, when up in the sky there's a huge, orange flash. The orange flash quickly \"inflated\" into a giant ball, bigger than the sun. It even had a fiery looking texture to it. Suddenly, the orange ball disappeared, and the entire desert sky, horizon to horizon, flashed a bright yellow, lighting up the everything around me like it was daytime. Then everything went back to normal. This all happened within a few seconds, but it was definitely the weirdest thing I've seen on the road.","replyToPid":0}

615811

{"replyTo":"","text":"Driving during a rain storm and seeing a bear with matted down fur walking on his rear legs like a person. Honestly thought it was bigfoot. Had to do a few double takes in my mirror when I passed him.","replyToPid":0}

773304

{"replyTo":"","text":"Not me but a friend, saw a naked kid (9-10 years old) walking at night on a long stretch of empty stretch of highway 41 south of where it meets highway 285, in New Mexico.\n\nHe picked the kid up and called it in to local law enforcement. The kid wouldn't speak. A State trooper showed up, and according to my friend, acted like it was no big deal, like he had seen it all before. My friend asked the officer to hold up, and what was going on. The officer said, \"don't worry about it\", and just turned and walked away, loading the kid into his vehicle.\n\nHe tried to find a newspaper articles about it in papers from nearby cities but never found any anything. He looked and couldn't find anything in any missing persons filings.\n\nHe told this story with a haunting simplicity and air of dread.","replyToPid":0}

773306

{"replyTo":"","text":"Probably a local mentally challenged kid. The cop's reaction and the fact that it didn't make the news tend to indicate that it wasn't the first time they did something alike, and a good cop sees no reason to publicize what could be embarrassing to the family...","replyToPid":0}

773308

{"replyTo":"","text":"My buddy is also a trucker. He was stopped at this rest stop somewhere in Ohio. He was outside of his truck checking something near the rear trailer wheels. A car pulled upside him and the driver rolled his window down. The driver was a middle aged male and creepily asked my buddy if he wanted to have a good time. My buddy responded “nah, leave me alone”. The guy driving the car sped off. Around 2 hours later, my buddy went back outside to check something near the rear wheels again. As he was bent down, he heard this car approaching quickly. It was the same man he encountered earlier. The man attempted to hit my friend with his car (at probably 25mph) but was unsuccessful as my friend jumped under the trailer. The driver of the car stopped about 30 ft from the trailer and put his car in reverse. As he began to back up, my buddy grabbed his tire iron and threw it at the car. The tire iron smashed through the rear window of the car. The driver sped off immediately. My buddy didn’t get a plate number or great description of the vehicle or guy as it all happened at night. He was upset that he lost his tire iron though.","replyToPid":0}