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

773311

{"replyTo":"","text":"There’s another driver where I work that tells a story about driving through the desert in Arizona back in the 80’s with nothing around for miles when he broke down in the middle of the night- it was an easy fix (his fuel filter was clogged- he drained it a little to free up the fuel and got the truck running about 15 minutes later), he took off down the highway when he saw a man that was out of breath on the side of the highway that was staring at him as he passed.. he said it looked like the guy had been running toward him until he got his truck running and drove away.. He said if he had been there a few more minutes the guy would’ve been able to walk up on him with his head in the engine bay. He said the look on the guys face gave him chills and telling the story you could see it still creeped him out.","replyToPid":0}

773314

{"replyTo":"","text":"witnessed a shootout between cops and crackheads next to the gas pumps while pulling into a truck stop","replyToPid":0}

793362

{"replyTo":"","text":"A woman was crossing a busy highway and got hit by a car. Police were there but paramedics had not made it yet. The sight of her family holding her lifeless body with blood everywhere while cry hysterically is something I will not forget.","replyToPid":0}

793393

{"replyTo":"","text":"i was making a night drop and kept getting the feeling like someone was watching me. The hair kept standing up on the back of my neck and i just felt uneasy. I decided something was off and left to circle back in the morning. Turns out I’m pretty sure someone WAS watching me because someone was shot and killed there a few nights later in an attempted robbery.","replyToPid":0}

793519

{"replyTo":"","text":"My dad use to drive for a commercial grocery store back in the day, this was probably around 1975-80. The route he drove took him past a hospital for the mentally ill. Apparently the place wasn't known for its security because my dad said he would pass people walking on the road in varying levels of nudity. He said he would see about one or two escaped patients a week and eventually it became a pretty normal thing. He told me the creepiest part is sometimes they would look at the headlights the way a deer or wild animal would and he was terrified that one day they would just run out in front of the truck. They never did though... just stared and watched him drive by.","replyToPid":0}

793525

{"replyTo":"","text":"Creepiest is seeing people walking along the shoulder of the highway when it’s pitch black out and there hasn’t been a town for miles and miles and there isn’t one coming up for miles either.","replyToPid":0}

793533

{"replyTo":"","text":"Driving home from a trip one night, something told me to merge over, so I did. About a quarter mile later there was a guy sitting in the middle of the lane I was just in, freaked me out like nothing else had.","replyToPid":0}

793537

{"replyTo":"","text":"I saw a deer on its hind legs on the side of the road. It's eyes glowed in my headlights. I nearly shit my pants.","replyToPid":0}

793540

{"replyTo":"","text":" A family friend got into an accident with a pick up truck full of drunk teenagers. Neither he nor the kids inside could open the doors, so he watched them all burn alive. He had nightmares about it for years. He owns his own trucking business now too. Pretty amazing to me that he still stuck to it. I would have changed jobs. At least.","replyToPid":0}

793542

{"replyTo":"","text":"The creepiest thing I remember, other than the empty rest areas in the middle of nowhere, was the howling trailers of Flagstaff.","replyToPid":0}