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"I then hear someone..."
<p>Trucker here. I think the best "creepy" thing that ever happened to me was I was heading from Tucson, AZ up into Saltlake City, UT. Well this was a few years ago and the main highway had been taken out in a flash flood, was under construction so I had to take a wierd detour through the mountains in lower Utah.</p><p>Well it was getting late and I was getting tired so I pulled off onto the shoulder and went to sleep in my bunk. Now this was in the middle of nowhere, closest town was like 40 miles away, so it is complelty pitch black outside once I turn the lights off. Any way around 4 am I wake up because I'm hearing something messing with my truck, like playing with the air and power cables between my cab and the trailer, which is literally 6 inches from where my head is at but on the outside of the cab. Then I feel something climb onto the landing that's on the back of my truck and it shakes my whole truck, so I'm guessing something around 2 to 3 hundred pounds was climbing around back there, I'm thinking like a mountain lion or a bear. At this point I'm wide awake and I want to get this thing away from me, so I slam my hand into my cab wall trying to scare what ever is out there, <em>SLAM</em> Hard enough to really make it loud.</p>
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<p>I then hear someone, a male, scream bloody murder and I hear them fall off the back of my truck. I then hear about 15 other people all around my truck yelling. I climb up front, turn on my lights and illuminate a squad of Army Reserves doing their midnight ruck march and capture drills.</p><p>Turns out these guys were supposed to go find an "abandoned" truck and "secure" it for their midnight drills. That truck was 3 miles back down the road. They were not expecting me to be sleeping there, and thought I was part of the drill. I'm ex-military so after explaining I was not part of their test and legit was just there out of coincidence we laughed it off. They had to radio to their C.O. and tell him I was there and not have the other squads bother me.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g96rerp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">DWL52</a></p>
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"I decided not to back up..."
<p>I used to deliver hotshot freight across the great plains/Minnesota area. One night around 2am I was hauling across North Dakota trying to reach Montana by morning. I was delivering a particularly valuable tractor part that a farm desperately needed for the following day. I began to notice some highway hypnosis sneaking up on me, but it didn't really bother me because I'd been through it hundreds of times before. Anyone who has driven across North Dakota knows that it is incredibly flat. Like, really flat. There also tends to be very straight and long roads. It's somewhat easy to see things on the road that are far away, even at night.</p><p>I noticed something long on the road, spanning my entire lane, approximately half a mile in front of me. I slowed down a little and prepared to move into the opposite lane, thinking it was some re-tread off a blown tire. As I got closer I noticed it was two people, laying head to toe across the entire lane. I swerved into the other lane, successfully avoiding them and came to an almost complete stop. But they didn't move. Not an inch.</p>
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<p>I was just about to back up and check on them when I remembered a story that an old greybeard colleague of mine told me. He told me that in certain remote areas, people will lie down in the middle of the road and wait for a car or truck to stop and see what's going on. At that point, the road-layers along with whoever else is hiding in the nearby bushes will beat the the driver and steal his vehicle, leaving him in the middle of nowhere.</p><p>I decided not to back up, and when the two people in the road saw me put my truck back in gear and drive away, they both got up and walked toward the shoulder. I called the police and explained what happened, but we were so far away from civilization that I doubt anything came of it.</p><p>Thanks to that old greybeard, I got to keep my truck, my job, and my teeth.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g96hp4d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ArronRogersButthole</a></p>
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"Driving through an abandoned section..."
<p>Driving through an abandoned section of Baltimore at 3 in the morning, my CB radio turned itself on and crackled for a bit. Out of nowhere some voice over the radio said in a deep southern drawl, "I ain't got no panties on."</p><p>I could see up and down the interstate for miles and saw not one set of headlights...</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g968ww0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">THREEkoalas</a></p>
"Every so often..."
<p>Driving through a national park in the middle of the night going through a slow stretch at about 30km/h.</p><p>Every so often I think I see something out the window and beside me. Just a glimpse of movement. When I Iook though I don't catch it. Finally on about the third time I whip my head around and this time I recognize its a huge black wolf following alongside my truck just off the highway. I only saw it for a few seconds before I had to focus back on the road but it was absolutely lovely yet unsettling.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g967pgg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">skilganon</a></p>
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"I was driving through eastern Washington..."
<p>I was driving through eastern Washington on some state roads. There were no rest stops or cities but I had done the route enough to know there were these massive dirt areas every ~40 miles where you could park safely away from the road. I decided to call it a night and closed my blinds and laid down to watch something on my phone.</p><p>After roughly an hour I hear someone try to open the driver's side door. I haven't heard any vehicles on the road the whole time I'm parked but I get up to peek out the curtains. As I'm looking out into the blackness of the drivers side window I hear them try the passenger side door. I peek down from the top of the curtain but can't see anything so I start the truck and kick on the lights.</p><p>I'm fairly freaked out at this point so I'm still not opening the curtains but peeking through gaps. Nothing, nobody is standing near either of my doors or parked within sight line. I take a deep breath and close the sleeper curtains too, because for some reason that's going to make things better right?</p>
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<p>After laying back down and convincing myself that something blew against the truck and it only <em>sounded</em> like the doors (it was fairly windy outside and a lot of flat ground) I hear what sounds like someone trying to pry open the vents on the sleeper. The door handles start clicking again and the truck starts shifting like someone is climbing on it. I hit the little alarm button in the sleeper hoping to spook them off but it does nothing but add to the noise of door handles, fingers tapping on windows and chassis, and the hiss of air coming out of the suspension.</p><p>Then suddenly it stops. A few moments where I can only hear myself breathing and my heart pounding before I hear another truck approach and then drive by. I spent the next few hours waiting for whatever it was to come back but it never did. In the morning I couldn't find any footprints or damage to my truck but on <em>every</em> window were tiny human looking handprints, like a toddler had licked their hand and stuck it to my window over and over.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g969mar?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ICollectTheDead</a></p>
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"I also experienced..."
<p>I work for a railroad. Not necessarily "remote" but sometimes its just a conductor and engineer cruising along +/-10mph on very isolated, fairly wooded track. I've heard a few older guys mention something about a family (or a man with a suitcase, something along those lines dont really remember) walking down the track with no concerns. Constant blowing of the horn, flashing of the lights etc just kept walking down the track. Then disappearing. Near Weatherly, PA.</p><p>I also experienced a pretty intense trip myself one night coming home from New Jersey. Saw my 1st dead body laying along the rail which in itself was kinda interesting.</p><p>Then the only other part of my trip where we were required to run at a slow speed, I heard the craziest blood curdling scream I have ever heard in my entire life. One of the nights I will probably remember until I retire.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g95yt6d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">tylerk135</a></p>
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"So I went to sleep..."
<p>Reno, NV. </p><p>A place on the north side of town, way off the freeway towards an old "military" road. I got there early at like 1am, they didn't open till 6am. The facility was closed so no one around and I just pulled into the lot and parked off to the side. So I went to sleep and was woken shortly after to someone knocking on the door/window, firmly to the point the truck shook. I jump out of bed thinking they are there already and want to offload me early. I get to the door and no one is there, so I step down thinking they are behind the trailer looking at the door seal or something. No one around, I look under the truck and around absolutely no one. No wind or bad weather, not another person around. I jump in the truck and pull out of there as fast as I could and went and parked in a nearby truck stop. Still can't explain it, I mean I guess I can justify I could have imagined the sound but the truck shaking was definitely real so I dont know.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jd4sqx/truck_drivers_whats_a_creepy_story_youve_got_from/g966yl8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Paulthekid10-4</a></p>
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