What is the creepiest thing that has happened to you driving?

**gimp** · 01-05-2008, 10:24 PM

I was driving home from the bar after last call up home in rural New Hampshire. I saw something in the middle of the opposite lane coming up. I thought it was a deer or something that got hit. I got closer, and I saw it was some dude that I had seen at the bar that night. He was laying down in the middle of the road (40 mph speed limit). I stopped and said "Hey man, you all right?". He sat up, said "Woah. I forgot where I was.", then stood up and walked straight off into the woods.

Coming from the opposite direction, there is no way you would have been able to stop without hitting the guy. He was right in front of a little riser in the road. People fly down that road too. That was pretty weird. Not really creepy, just weird.

**MoeMag** · 01-06-2008, 02:40 AM

**Indignant** · 01-06-2008, 03:33 AM

this happened a little while ago, haven't talked about it much because it really freaked me out bad.

we've got this old road in town that is supposedly 'haunted' to teenagers. if you go down it at 12:34-1:17 on Thursdays or if you go by it at any moment the time matches the date (IE 2:27 on February 27th) ghost people will appear around there. i never really bought into it and i take the road all the time to and from my girlfriend's house as she lives across town and if i take the haunted road (i'll call it by its real name from now on, MacAllister Way) i avoid all the stoplights and other BS by the freeway off/on ramps i would otherwise have to go through. like i said, i didn't believe it, but i still have never really been comfortable on the road, especially coming home at night. i never paid enough attention to notice the time thing.

the legend is that a large group of homeless people were murdered by a group of drunk teens there after an orchard party (yeah, orchards. cool town) way before i was born or anything. i guess the homeless used to have a big camp and were routinely messed with but one time a bunch of kids took it too far. it was a huge debacle and caused a TON of unrest in the community, i've been told, and i've seen it in the old records of the newspaper at the library. interesting stuff, the trials and everything. anyways, since it was only teens that murdered the hobos teens are the only ones effected and it happened between from 12:34-1:17 blahblahblah. never believed it.

a couple weeks ago i was driving down MacAllister to pick up my girlfriend to go to lunch. it was the week before Christmas, December 22nd. 12-22, i later realized. i was driving down the street not thinking much about the curse, instead thinking of the incoming mexican food to my belly, when stuff got scary. it is making me uncomfortable to type this right now, seriously. i didn't even tell my girlfriend when i got to her house, she doesn't know yet... probably think i'm crazy. or trying to trick her into believing the legend or some ****. that's what i get for being the boy who cried wolf, i suppose.

i was driving the Bronco at the time. it's a 1973 Bronco, lifted and all that on 35"s and the gearing is lowwwwwwwwwwww. because of all this, none of my gauges work real well. the speedometer is all but useless to me (my dad understands "the formula") and the clock doesn't work. because of the clock not working i have a watch duct taped to the dash. ghetto, but i can read the time. sweet. it's an analog watch... not the greatest for glancing. just what i had lying around

so, i am driving down the street when my clock turns on in the car. the normal one on the stereo which hasn't been on since we bought the truck last year. i figured it was just a loose wire from all the work we've been doing. well, the clock starts to freak the hell out. it is showing random numbers, halves of numbers, just random crap. at this point i am getting freaked out. i try to ignore it and keep my eyes on the road but my cluster catches my eye... my speedometer is going absolutely NUTS! the needle is ALL over the place, like a orange blur on the gauge. again, freaky. i am suitably FREAKED OUT and just trying to get to my girlfriends and then drive the long way to lunch.

so i said F the speed limit, no cops out there, shifted up and hit the gas. i make it sound like this is real fast at this point... i might have been going 65 before i eased off because it sounded like the engine was working too hard. that's what low gearing gets you, but hey, it's made for crawling rocks not escaping malevolent spirits that want to make me late with symbols or get arrested for speeding.

this is when i looked down... and noticed my odometer. the odometer was spinning around. every number was going crazygonuts around the gauge.... and then it stopped. on 012220. i looked at the clock. it was back off. i checked the watch... it was 12 something. around the 4 on the minute hand... figured it was 12:22. i have never been so close to pissing my pants.

until the guy ran out in front of my car. he jumped out of the bushes and i SWEAR TO GOD i have never been so scared in my life. i went karate kid on the clutch and smashed on the breaks screeching down the road in the process... no ABS here, full lock from too fast. i eased on a bit, but when i noticed i wasn't going to stop before him i just killed the brakes. i guess i am giving myself a little less credit than i deserve for how jittery i am, especially in that situation. well, the guy is standing in front of me now looking raggedy as all hell and my heart is just about beating out of my chest. he waves... i stare back. he walks up to the door and against my better judgement i roll down the window and ask if he needs anything. he looked me right in the eye and said "You're moving with your Auntie and Uncle in Bel-Air!"

well, i whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had DICE in the mirror! if anything i knew that this cab was rare but i thought, now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air! I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and i yelled to the cabbie 'go home, smell you later!' looked at my kingdom, i was finally there, to sit on my throme as the prince of bel-air.

**RobOpel** · 01-06-2008, 08:58 AM

^^^^ Best. Read. Ever.

**Army** · 01-06-2008, 11:21 AM

In my truck, teaching Sarah how to drive a clutch on a country road......

....creeeeepy

**skife** · 01-06-2008, 03:47 PM

was driving down a country road about 10:30 pm in the fall, all my lights are on, offroad lights included, it was about the time the deer started running and i didn't want to hit them.

i see eyes glowing in the road ahead, so i slow down a bit, there was a cat in the road and it was chasing something, looked like a left, i get a bit closer and this cat was chasing a mouse acrost the road.

**Motorhead** · 01-06-2008, 04:23 PM

Happened on the Loneliest highway in the world ... U.S. 50

Last July coming home from a 2 week Motorcycle trip. My buddy & I were just out side the town of Austin Nevada about 2:00 in the afternoon.
Road entered a bunch of twisties just outside of Austin, when all of the sudden road way changed color from a grey asphalt to a dark purple red color .... Shoulder of the road way had funny piles of brown acorn sized debris, Then the raod was moving and alive followed with getting VERY slippery ..... WHOLLY cra* those are crickets by the MILLONS !!!

Find out once in town getting gas that every year these desert crickets hatch and migrate across the highway. Those who get run over become food for the others and the process of get squashed become food again & again. This go's on for days !!

We both almost crashed our bike because the road was go greased with dead crickets !!

Freaky to the max !!

**Phaelynar** · 01-06-2008, 05:58 PM

No one can beat my weird driving story.

Not weird, just not needed. Been here for 4+ years, and haven't learned the rules yet?One week for circumventing the filter. Army

**secretweaponevan** · 01-06-2008, 06:18 PM

Came home from a late night coffee-fest at 3am to find the brightest flashing light i'd ever seen (as bright as the inside of a movie projector) coming down over my house. Radio, clock and wipers start freaking out. Drove away. Waited until dawn before going home. Bought a shotgun the next day and have worked nights for 9 years now.

**maxama10** · 01-06-2008, 06:45 PM

Originally posted by Motorhead

Happened on the Loneliest highway in the world ... U.S. 50

Last July coming home from a 2 week Motorcycle trip. My buddy & I were just out side the town of Austin Nevada about 2:00 in the afternoon.
Road entered a bunch of twisties just outside of Austin, when all of the sudden road way changed color from a grey asphalt to a dark purple red color .... Shoulder of the road way had funny piles of brown acorn sized debris, Then the raod was moving and alive followed with getting VERY slippery ..... WHOLLY cra* those are crickets by the MILLONS !!!

Find out once in town getting gas that every year these desert crickets hatch and migrate across the highway. Those who get run over become food for the others and the process of get squashed become food again & again. This go's on for days !!

We both almost crashed our bike because the road was go greased with dead crickets !!

Freaky to the max !!

Eh, yeah, Mormon Crickets are what they call em. We get em here in Lovelock too, once in awhile. Theyre pretty nasty suckers.

I think, that when the Mormons settled the Saltlake valley long ago, they were growing crops. So, after a while these crickets came and decimated their crops. So, they were on the verge of being ruined and had no idea what to do. Then, came the sea gulls, they ate all the crickets and saved the Mormon settlers. (aka Mormon air force)

I think thats about accurate?

**warpig13** · 01-06-2008, 08:36 PM

I hit a hooker.

There were bits of glitter stuck in my grill and cheap make-up smeared all over the windshield.

**d4m4don3** · 01-07-2008, 12:20 AM

Driving down the 60 Fwy, Big F-350 raised about a foot was barreling down the highway at 80 mph, and was flashing the brights on me. Suddenly his right tire popped and he veered left right into the k-rail, bounced off of that and hit a bunch of cars behind me. :spit_take

**Beebu** · 01-07-2008, 01:15 AM

Here's what Army thinks of my post:

"Not weird, just not needed. Been here for 4+ years, and haven't learned the rules yet?One week for circumventing the filter"

It's not weird to have a guy run into oncoming traffic into your car after you stop, then run away from the scene of the accident? That's pretty weird to me. Also, I typed a normal swear, I didn't edit any words to circumvent anything. Everything that was a swear appeared as filtered. You fail at moderating. No wonder this forums gone to hell lately.

Apparently my TRUE story wasn't needed because of real swears that were filtered. But the guys post about hitting a hooker and glitter getting stuck in the grill is incredibly necessary folks.

**Indignant** · 01-07-2008, 01:54 AM

eh, ban circumvention... if there is one thing i've learned, it's let it go and wait it out

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