30 Creepy Things People Witnessed While Driving at Night

‘A body in the ditch’
30 Creepy Things People Witnessed While Driving at Night

Darkness makes everything creepier. An abandoned car? Yup, creepy. A doll sitting in a chair? Nightmare fuel for sure. An old guy on a bicycle carrying two bales of hay and going the wrong way in the emergency lane of a country freeway at 2 a.m.? Step on the gas, brother! 

These are the kinds of eerie sights Redditors have witnessed while out on the road after dark. Even if you’re not easily spooked by creepy tales, at least one of these stories will convince you to finish running your errands before the sun goes down — especially the one about the frogs.

5y ago A 6ft kangaroo standing in the middle of a pitch black road at 3am in the morning, missed it by a bee's dick. 30K ...
StopFightingTheDog 1 8y ago UK cop here. On night's on Halloween, saw someone dressed up (very good costume too) as that toy from Saw, on a small tricycle, pedaling home(?) from town at about 4am. 524 ...
8y ago I saw a girl who looked about 10 to 12 years old, standing on the side of the road holding a mangled dog. She was wearing a long white dress and it's blood and guts was all over her. 63 ...
stuffonfire 8y ago It was around 2am and I was dropping my friend off at his house. A van (white, unmarked) was just sitting at a stop sign intersection and flashed his lights for me to proceed, even though he'd gotten there first and had been sitting there for who knows how long. Не immediately starts following me, and it becomes clear he's not just going the same route as I was driving in circles around the neighborhood. I eventually started running stop signs, which he also did. Basically we were chased for a good 15 minutes before we lost
payton_planet . 5y ago I slammed the brakes once because I saw a deer in my peripheral vision. Upon closer inspection, it was a mounted deer head on a stick in the middle of the woods. Slammed the gas after I realized that. 26K ...
Reapingday15 0 5y ago A dead, butchered horse laying in the road. Someone had completely skinned and butchered a horse, took the choice pieces of meat, and just dumped it on the highway. I almost crashed into it 23K ...
5y ago e Edited 5y ago A lonely abandoned shack with a bunch of arrows pointing to it. Saying come in! EDIT: To answer some questions i was on my way to texas to see family and the gps took us down a back road. my mom and i joked that it was a sex dungon 18K ...
5y ago A hitchhiker almost leaping out in front of my car on a dark forrest road late at night. The woman literally popped out of nowhere. Had to drift into the oncoming lane. Luckily there was no one else and painted median there. Read a police report that she ended up getting hit minutes after I drove by. She was intoxicated and running from the police. Pretty fucking creepy. I hope she's alright. I can't imagine what the driver that hit her was thinking. 20K ...
GrayOnline . 5y ago Frogs. Fucking. EVERYWHERE. Like hundreds of frogs all over the road. 15K ...
runeofrose 5y ago I was fetching someone from his work place. Had to go through some fields, and some parts of the road were dark. I saw a thin, long object, wiggling at an upright position at the side if the road in front of me. Totally freaked me out. I thought I was finally experiencing something extraordinary. As I got closer I realized it was a tail of a cow. It must've escaped from some field and was hanging around at the side of the road. The cow itself was black, the tail slightly lighter in color. That's why
growing_youth . 5y ago Killer Clown on the side of a deserted country road during the 2016 clownpocalypse. I think i cried. 9.1K ...
yucatan36 5y ago 3am on a lonely road and I was the passenger. An old man only wearing a bra, panties and high heals was casually walking down the road. My friend who was driving didn't believe me and went back around. Sure enough, he saw him and we were like wtf. 4K ...
annerevenant в 5y ago Driving down country highways late at night and seeing coyotes just standing on the side of the road can be pretty unnerving. 1.8K ...
o 5y ago 0 Edited 5y ago Night shift. Driving home. Child right in the middle of the street. Noped outta there because I watched those car hijacks. Took twice as long to get home though... Edit: I did call the cops and they caught the guys mid act. Husband wife and a child. Only reason I was informed by this is because my police bud. 1.5K ...
ijustwanafap 5y ago I was driving on a lifted interstate without a shoulder. It's like 3 am and no one else in the road. Round a bend and see a guy with no legs and no arms propped up against the railing. Не looked like he was 3 days into a hardcore Bender. 691 ...
sourkitty33 5y ago . Edited 5y ago A body in the ditch. Thought it was a deer as I approached and then my brain was like 'Deer don't wear boots'. I was shaking as I did a U- turn to make sure the person was alive. They were, just drunk and some people stopped as well and emergency was called. I was so shaken up by it.
YosemiteTissiack 5y ago . Edited 5y ago Driving in the Santa Monica Mountains because I was delivering a Christmas Tree. It was not completly dark, but the stars were starting to come out. I turned the corner on a windy road and right in front of me was a mountain lion. I was shocked and humbeled about how large it was and how fast it could kill me. Thankfully I was in a car. 498 ...
5y ago Long stretch of road, not so much as a driveway for 100 miles in either direction. Late at night in this middle of nowhere road, there was a car on the side of the road that was on fire. And I don't mean like an engine fire, i mean completely engulfed in flames. Not a single person or another car anywhere around it. I hadn't even driven past a car in over an hour. 677 ...
peppermint_toad . 5y ago Watched IT at a friend's house, leaving late at night and I look in the rearview to see Pennywise the clowns yellow fucking eyes staring at me. It was another car with weird headlights. I almost crashed the car...into a graveyard 469 ...
8y ago Driving in to Laughlin, Nevada late one night I caught what looked like three pairs of legs, like three people laying down, pointed toward the road. First I was like. No. can't be three people there. My buddy took the same road two hours after me. Walked up to me and like man, cops everywhere. Three body bags in the highway. I think tjere was an execution. + 83 ...
sizzlorr26 8y ago Not the driver but passenger of a bus. It was already late at night last trip of the bus that day. We were passing by a rural area, by this time most of the passengers are already sleeping. Suddenly the driver slowed down and opened the bus door, waited, then closed the door just like when letting a passenger in. But there was no one. I didn't know if I was the only one who noticed and I didn't ask the driver afterwards. Always wondered if he saw something that day. 161 ...
Citadel_97E . 8y ago I was around 12 at the time. My fathere was driving through Richmond, VA. I guess he was dring through a bad part of town. In the median I saw a man with no facial features. Haven't been back since. Am 31. 18 ...
JW9thWonder . 5y ago somewhat remote highway near where i was born, we were driving back into town and there was this lady in a white sundress just standing by the entrance to her driveway staring at us... this is like 2:30am. hella creepy, made me wonder if she was sleep walking or something. 238 ...
. 5y ago A plate of spaghetti on the road 195 ...
QuiteLady1993 3y ago I was 19 driving home from my then bf house and stopped at a red light on the very edge of town (like city lights behind me but corn fields and shelter belts ahead of me) because it's like 2 in the morning I'm the only one sitting at the red light. I saw something moving in my peripherals and because of my location I thought it was gonna be a deer. I turned my head and locked eyes with a man maybe in his 50s creeping towards my car. When he saw that I saw him
CatiCom 3y ago When I was 16 I had a junky convertible 1989 Capri. I loved that car. One night I was driving the backroads home out in the middle of nowhere Missouri. Top down, enjoying the night air. I dove under some low hanging trees and heard a weird SLAP noise from the backseat. Turned around to see a huge black snake frantically slithering towards the safety of under my seat. I nearly wrecked. I hate snakes and even though this rat snake was 100% harmless I was panicked. Pulled over screaming and called my dad to come de-
esr95tkd 3y ago A driver drove past me by my right side. I was driving in a single lane street next to a cliff on my right and a mountain (no road) to the left. I slammed my brakes and let it sit for some minutes before driving again. To this day I'm not sure of what I saw 300 ...
Finaldamns 7y ago Somebody had set up a cardboard standee in the middle of a middle of nowhere road. I thought I almost hit somebody standing in the pitch black. It took me a few minutes to regain composure and realize it was a standee of arnold schwarzenegger 1.9K ...
Thereisnoyou 3y ago I was working a night shift and rode a moped to work, the headlight was fairly dim but on the way home I saw what I can only describe as what looked like.. black pants, floating slowly just overhead but making a walking motion as they passed, I got a good look and I still cant make heads or tails of what it actually was and I sure as fuck wasn't going back to double check + 555 ...
michaelrohansmith 8y ago Old man on a bicycle carrying two bales of hay going the wrong way in the emergency lane of a country freeway at 2 AM. Не was in my headlights for a few seconds, then gone. 139 ...

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