3 TRUE & DISTURBING Trucker Stories With Ambience | True Horror Stories

I've worked in manual labor my entire life but I took a gig hauling trucks for a few years in the early 2000s I got off for a package that I couldn't refuse in the way of full-time pay with part-time hours if I can meet the arrival times I got insurance benefits everything an employee dreams about I got my CDL as well as a few other certifications found myself on the road just a month or so later I had a lot of jobs where things got weird or just crazy but one particular evening makes the others

pale in comparison I don't like like stories with a lot of fluff so I'm just going to jump right into it I was on a return trip from Oregon to Minnesota I had already made one delivery hooked up a second and was now technically on my way home this was about the halfway point weather is great I'm feeling good motivated my time on that trip was well ahead of schedule so I made sure not to push it or burn myself out I found it super defeating to get home from a long haul to be too

too exhausted to enjoy it it's always better to take a little time and stay level I also have a bit of a heart condition so heavy caffeine intake isn't an option for me most of my life has been all natural using whatever remedy that I could come up with to keep my energy up the biggest influence was just a good diet exercise and consistent sleep schedule that means I stopped every night generally at the same time got a good amount of rest and that's it many of my trips were clocked to the very last second

but I managed to always arrive on time I passed over the Idaho border and started gunning through Montana lots of beauty But ultimately not much in the way of civilization out there the route took me through Missoula bu and some more established townships between them though you'd be lucky to find a service station of any kind rural stretches like this always kept me on my toes as I'd heard horror stories about guys running out of gas blowing tires or encountering engine trouble there isn't help for 75 miles in each Direction on top of that some

of these rural stretches don't see a lot of traffic some early mornings I wouldn't see another car on the road for an hour at a time I had my eyes set on a trucking station out in the middle of nowhere between Boseman and Livingston I'd roll through Boseman around dinner time grab a quick bite to eat then push on towards the station let my food settle and digest a bit after an hour of driving I'd hit my target pull over and totally be ready for bed I liked routine I like structure I liked having a

plan that night everything was supposed to be simple at first it was my plan was going smoothly I got dinner gassed up experienced little to no traffic was back on the road in no time soon I found my head swimming from the digestion and long day of driving but there it was some lights out there alongside of the highway you know exactly what I'm talking about these big concrete pull outs on the side of interstates every 100 miles or so they usually have a bathroom vending machine trash cans everything people living on the road might

need I pulled in and found a rare sight not a single vehicle anywhere no one was using this rest station and I like that there's a kind of security in being solo if that makes sense I let the truck cool down locked everything up then crawled into the living space in the back my area was very simple a bed small table attached to the wall and an overhead shelf thing to store most of my belongings I also had a little makeshift Power Cell which I used to charge a portable flip DVD player that had both

this player and a screen it was one of those inventions of the 2000s that could have only been popular then I settled in with my big blankets and pillows and watched one of my favorites Resident Evil or rain of fire an action thriller of some kind despite the shooting and explosions I fell asleep just after 30 minutes I closed the DVD player and surrendered to the darkness inside my cab it must have only been a couple hours later and something woke me up I couldn't place it but I knew something Jarred me I have a

habit of snoring occasionally and when I do I sometimes wake myself up with one of those louder rips I thought maybe that's what happened so I snuggled in for a few more hours of sleep I like to hit the road Before Sunrise get those extra miles in before the rest of the world wakes up just as I closed my eyes though I heard it the sound that woke me up it wasn't a snore like I thought but the abruptness of a cough it came from somewhere beyond the cab outside in the parking lot it sounded

partially muffled maybe another trucker had pulled in and I just simply hadn't heard the rumble really didn't seem that likely but I guess anything is possible right I wanted to be sure of what I heard so I turned on the small overhead light the second that flicked on I could hear ear shoes slapping the asphalt and the sound of someone running away as I listened the footsteps faded a bit the person was running away from my truck they must have seen the light come on and reacted to that but at this point I'm now on

high alert I turned the light off so was not to give away my position within the truck as long as it's dark it's almost impossible to see in the depth of the sleeping cab so I used that to my advantage looking out I surveyed the parking lot and found something unusual an older van parked across the lot sitting angled so the broadside faced my windshield definitely weird asz I was 100% alone when I pulled in originally that parking lot was empty I tried to be reasonable though maybe he was walking his dog having a smoke

whatever the case the person was likely a long haul traveler just like myself the guy was probably stretching his legs doing a few laps of the parking lot when he accidentally woke me up once he saw the light he realized that he made a mistake then hi tailed it back to his van it really wasn't the most outof the ordinary thing to happen at a truck stop with a little apprehension I let everything go and I didn't investigate it any further despite my best efforts I couldn't fall back asleep just as I started to drift

off I heard those footsteps again and then what I thought sounded like someone tugging on the passenger side door handle there was an unmistakable click then the sway of someone stepping off the sidebar whoever I'd heard coughing just trying to get inside my truck at this point all my alarms are going off in my head and that structured well-planned part of my brain is now scrambling for whatever reason and a lot of my friends have given me flak for it over the years but I didn't carry a gun on these truck huls I did have

a short club that I used to check my tire pressure and that was a great second option at this point I believe my best choice was to nut up and confront whoever was Milling around the parking lot let them know that my truck wasn't public property all at once I throw the passenger door open click my flashlight on I had a small steady Streamlight that could reach something like 30 yards and not without puffy yellow flare of a cheap flashlight but white concentrated light I swept it back and forth saw nothing so I started inspecting

the truck and the trailer I saw nothing at first glance so I hopped down and did a full lap of the rig still nothing not even underneath it only one option left now time to go look at that van I swept the flashlight around and started marching up to the rear I wanted to see the license plate before I checked it out any any further as I go to eye the back of the bumper I brought my light up so I could see my eyes naturally went to the license plate which was from South Dakota

but something else caught my attention I couldn't place it at first but as I kept looking it all came into Focus below the back of the van near the far back tire there was a pair of boots someone was crouched and hiding on the other side of it only the toe tips poked out but it was enough for me to see what was going on I left the light on the boots for 10 20 seconds long enough for them to realize that they were exposed I watched in disbelief as the boots slowly shuffled backward until

they were completely hidden behind the tire my stomach soured at the whole thing this person clearly had ill intentions and I wanted nothing to do with them I wanted to say something but I found myself completely speechless I'm not confrontational you may have gleaned that for my lack of a firearm I didn't want to issue a threat to someone who might have the upper hand I just backed up until I reached my truck hopped in and locked the door I figured that encounter was enough I got out and found them who would come up and

keep messing with me we both knew what was going on at this point so the mystery was completely over to some vagrant weirdo looking to make a score now that he knew the truck wasn't abandoned I hoped that he would just move on I sat for 45 minutes and that van never moved I didn't see anything move no person no door opening or closing it's like they were still hiding behind that rear passenger tire as the morning went on though sleep came and kissed me and I knew I needed to get at least a couple

of more hours of rest if I wanted to have a successful day my eyes started to droop and soon I was snoozing the sound that woke me this time was clear loud and right outside the door it was the sound of a man clearing his throat the sound someone makes when they want your attention my I shot up and moved to the glass and there just peeking over the lip of the door I can see someone looking into my cab I freeze hoping they can't see me but it doesn't matter this guy's eyes are rolling

back and forth they it all in looking for whoever is inside he looks crazy like he'd given himself a haircut with a butter knife some of it was shaved some of it was long and I could see Nicks along his scalp I think his eyebrows were shaved off too but it was hard to tell in the Moonlight I could literally feel this guy pulling on the door handle making the entire truck move I did the only thing that I could think of shout as loud as I could what do you want I hollered at the

glass still Motionless in the back of the cab this is also a censored conversation as I remember swearing in literally every sentence that I spoke to this guy he said it's me who I asked okay maybe this was a case of a mixup I sat up and reached for the club on the floor it's Jake come on he pleaded I don't know you you I'm not from here now please just get away from my truck I explained to him the conversation devolved from that point forward playing hard to get I like it let's do something

different he said this guy went on at length about what he wanted to do to me none of it involved violence at all everything this guy said was sexual from start to finish I'm watching this guy lick the window of my semi as he tells me he wants to kiss my feet wor worship me pleasure every part of me I'm not homophobic but the whole thing was nauseating as he's going on and on and on about his sexual fantasies transitioning into what he wants me to do to him and I'm yelling for him to just

please go away throughout the entire thing his tone changes he starts talking about his desires which were much more violent this guy wanted someone to hurt him during their sexual escapades punched choked tied up and abused the whole shebang I couldn't really believe what I was hearing he switched from licking the window to tapping on it before finally smashing his fist into the glass I had to do something I remembered my portable DVD player and for whatever reason came up with this weird little plan I opened up and faced it away from the front of

the cab so the light would illuminate my face but he wouldn't be able to see what the light was coming from I'm calling the police I said hoping the light source would look a car phone or a radio I've got your South Dakota plates too Richard he asked I'm not who you're looking for now get the hell out of here man was the last thing that I ever said to this person I watched him leap down and start running all in one swift motion the van fired up and without even turning its headlights on LED

from the parking lot like a bat out of hell honestly I ended up doing the same and after another inspection in the trailer and tires and I made sure everything was Secure I rolled out and made for Livingston that morning really played with the idea of calling the police and making some kind of report but thought it would be more trouble than it's actually worth I didn't have the actual plate number just that it was a Dakota van so I figured my report would go absolutely nowhere it wasn't until I got out of trucking that

I realized how common this type of encounter was especially after the invention of Craigslist truck stops have always been known for midnight Rend V but became explicit for random hookups all over the country particularly for traveling men who wanted to experiment whoever that Jake guy was he thought I was Richard who was probably another trucker rolling through Montana that night Jake must have gotten the truck station mixed up or Richard was late to the arrival so got us confused regardless and whatever the case I'm very glad that I had my doors locked that night as

I could be telling a very different story right now I have a plan when you hit the road and always stick to that plan when I was much younger I would drive a big rig throughout the summer to make some extra money my real job was school so summertime was the perfect time to get behind the week wheel and see some of the country getting paid to roll across state lines yeah it sounded like a dream and honestly and I'd had fantasies about being a truck hauler in my youth but my parents pushed me to

go to college and do something else either way I got to satisfy my desire and drive every summer it turned out to be such a cool gig that my wife would come with me as well which isn't uncommon she actually got her CDL so she could just drive the truck in the event that something happened happened to me it was a great little thing that we had going was some of the most fun that we've ever had There's Something Beautiful about waking up to the unpredictable life on the road there was only one of these

drives that had us second guessing the job honestly it was the scariest thing that ever happened to us both on and off the road nothing compares to the night that we had outside of Tucson it had been routine the entire drive we brought the load down from Idaho and now we're headed back with a different trailer in toe we're making good time but a little complication had us leaving Tucson a little later than we wanted to it was dark we only made it about an hour outside the city there was a truck stop ahead we

were both honestly pretty tired it seemed early to pull over but we wanted to start our return trip totally fresh we pulled into the truck stop found that it was wall to--all with semis and smaller trucks too every single stall was filled even the lane space was crowded with people parked illegally it was crazy to see like they were weathering a storm of something we did a u-turn through the lot and jump back out on the highway hoping that there would be a pull out large enough to accommodate us somewhere ahead fortunately we were in

luck cuz there was a big Dusty stretch just off the highway a nice wide dirt road took us off the highway about 100 ft then proceeded to open up into a field of some kind I assumed ass it was an outdoor recreation area this is where people unloaded their dirt bikes and quads my wife said that once the sun was up we'd probably see jumps everywhere maybe even a dust bow to rip through the only thing we could see in the moment was a tree stand off in the distance ACAA and Mos grow in little

pockets throughout the desert so we figured there was a wash that cut through where the trees grow something to keep them watered we immediately got into our usual routine checked the load and made sure everything was Secure put a couple of cones behind the trailer just in case someone came ripping through then I looked at the tires for lumps punctures anything while I did this my wife filled out the mileage logs another light paperwork that comes with the job we made short work of the chores at hand after that it was time to veg out

we had a light dinner played a card game then snuggled up to catch some shuty we didn't even put a movie on or anything they usually usually just kept us both awake so we just slipped away into the darkness of the C as it was quiet still and just a perfect night I remember how Serene it was as we fell asleep because when we woke later it was the exact opposite the thing that woke me first was my wife she was shaking me hollering that something was wrong I sat up and looked around but I

couldn't really see anything we used a divider to separate the cab from the sleeping bunk in the back regardless I could now hear what she was talking about I could feel it something was lightly making the truck Rock back and forth now I know what you're thinking the truck and the trailer weigh tons upon tons and you're right it takes a lot to make a big rig Shake but it isn't impossible a good wind can push the capab around make the trailer wiggle around like a big metal worm a pothole will make the whole thing

bounce honestly if someone is climbing up the side or back ladder or just messing with a trailer Hatch you can feel it inside the truck it's subtle but it's there now if someone were to climb up the side step of the truck itself or climb up in the back where the hitch is you can feel every single step this however didn't feel like any of that it kind of felt like wind with something larger nudging the rig back and forth it felt like it was coming from the ground the only way that I can describe

it is like we were caught in a herd of animals like goats or something they were gently bumping into the truck just enough to make it move a little I said this to my wife who agreed then made the deduction that we were technically in cattle country ranchers particularly during monsoon have a lot of land they can drive their cows through in Arizona I know it sounds crazy but it actually made sense to us in our sleepy state of mind we laid there for a while pretend like we were going to go back to sleep

I actually kind of did for a bit but my wife woke me back up again and this time I could tell something was really wrong we were really rocking now and there's some kind of sound coming from outside like a whooshing like wind but it had this weird metallic Echo again this whole night is impossible to describe at this point I got out of the bunk and grabbed my flashlight I didn't want to peel the light blocker off the windows in the back so I just pushed the divider over and peaked out through the windshield

I couldn't see any animals or moving bushes I couldn't see anything but darkness and I found that weird because I could actually see different shades of black twisting into one another it was like seeing some kind of special effects in real life or something I don't know I turned the flashlight on and shined it through the windows but I had to get close to see past the reflection beyond the glass there was nothing just dirt weeds sparse cactus ice here and there nothing reminiscent of an animal or swirling dark like I'd seen before my wife

asked from behind me if anything was out there and I told her no not even a cloud of dust which animals definitely would have kicked up for all the commotion that we felt nothing was really happening outside the second that I clicked that flashlight off the entire truck and trailer swayed so hard that I could hit the wall of the cap and almost fell to the ground my wife started screaming immediately it felt like we've been tossed out the sea or hit by a train maybe both I got back to my feet and grabbed the

passenger seat in front of me for support and cover I wanted to be able to scan the outside area without being seen if the truck rocked like that again it could hurt the hitching or mess up the cargo cause me trouble to put it plainly I didn't bother with the flashlight now as I could actually you see pretty well with just the light of the Moon the desert makes great canvas for things when you're looking for them in the dark my wife asked me if we should leave I told her probably I just wanted to

understand what the hell was going on the truck didn't move again but outside we can now hear something tapping planking vaguely like a stone against metal my wife actually had the perfect comparison she said it sounded exactly like one of our little dogs at home skittered across the tile of the kitchen the sound of claws clacking against the hard floor when she said that to me it creeped me out more than anything for some reason we sat in silence and just waited but we didn't have to wait for very long as I looked through the

passenger window I saw movement out by that tree stand that we spotted earlier I duck down squinted even considered getting my glasses I didn't think we'd be able to find them in the dark so I just stayed put and watched whatever was out there it only moved between the trees at first so I figured it had to be an animal I was hoping for something big like a bull cow or a horse something that I could believe maybe pushed on my truck it took a few steps before breaking away from the tree line when it

did I was sure I was looking at a person a man carefully walking amongst the dirt and rocks he was looking North away from the truck in the trees I whispered to my wife that there was someone out there she almost had an aneurysm she kicked off the blankets found her shoes and insisted that I get the truck going and if I didn't she was going to to this day and I don't really know why I asked her to just to please calm down and wait we were both there we were somewhat safe inside the

cab something strange was definitely going on the logic in me demanded to find find out some kind of answer she wasn't happy with it but she agreed to wait for just a bit longer came up and took a place next to me in the passenger seat we watched as this guy stro away from the trees stopped and then started making really weird Motions like interpretive dance or something he only did it for a second not even long enough for us to comment on it then just pointed over to some Stones as he pointed it looked

like he was looking back back and forth between the rocks and our truck then he was gone it wasn't like we turned away or blinked and then he vanished it was like this guy was never out there what had looked like his pointed silhouette dissipated into a shapeless Shadow out beneath the moon we went back and forth for a while about what we saw and if it was really real we've been doing these jobs in summer halls for a couple of years at this point nothing like this had ever happened to us now that our

truck was still and the stranger outside had vanished exhaustion really started to hit us we really needed to be resting if we wanted to make good time so we agreed to catch a few hours and then hit the road Before Dawn he take turns driving all day while the other slept in the back and still stay on schedule the rest of that night was one of the most peaceful that I've ever had I slept soundly I didn't toss or turn and I didn't wake up until I needed to there wasn't any sounds or commotion I

felt Centered for whatever reason my wife said the same and we chocked it up to an adrenaline dump after everything we'd been through that night we got up and ready brushed our teeth all our normal stuff there's nothing like sharing a cabin with someone that has bad breath that's a true horror story even compared to the night that we had kidding of course just a little joke for my wife I used to call her dragon breath on the mornings that it was particularly stiff anyway I wanted to take a leak while the engine warmed up

I climbed out of the truck and did a little PTI looked over the terrain for anything that I might get hung up on then wandered off to find a place to pee i' almost forgotten how crazy the night had been up until I saw the tree stand off on the other side of the lot and I made my way over there wasn't much over there just some dead High Grass some scratchy bushes in the tall binley mosquite the only sign of a person being back there was a little roadside trash big gulps and jerky bags

nothing ominous or threatening I followed that little path that the stranger had walked down until I spotted the rocks that he was pointing at I picked a tree to water did my business and then turned back to head to the truck I hesitated though something in me was screaming to go look at the rocks that we saw that guy pointing at how could I walk all the way over here and not at least take a look I turned around and marched over to the stones on the ground there wasn't really anything over there shockingly I

kicked around and looked between some of the bigger Stones it was just dirt though I climbed up onto the highest outcrop did a final survey of the area and that's when I saw what looked like a bill of a hat at my feet and then a skull and some other bones ribs fingers or toes everything was human no doubt about it we got on the radio and were able to get hold of local law enforcement sheriff's department and DPS were on the scene in no time as this was a well-known spot just as my wife

assumed we told them about our story from the night prior I walked them over to where the bones were they saw the skull and immediately started taping everything off it had been there for a while half buried in the sand and dirt it wasn't a fresh dump or anything it got filed as a John Doe for the time being and my wife and I were cleared to leave after a couple of hours police said this area was occasionally known for missing people to turn up both alive and dead not just the parking lot but the

entire trail system inside the hills vagrants and people having a bad day would sometimes wander off not realizing just how far they were from the city then succumb to the elements and lack of water after that they didn't immediately suspect B play but until they had an ID anything was possible we called at the end of the summer for a followup but they still hadn't been identified it made for one spooky evening and even more surreal morning my wife likes to think that we saw his ghost that night who was trying to get a little

peace in the afterlife I think we felt the wind and some Shadows but even then I guess they still led me to that skeleton again nothing like this has ever happened to us we didn't live in a haunted house or have some kind of psychic Visions or anything very little ever occurred to us in the way of Supernatural happenings I'm still not even convinced that it was Supernatural at all the officers told us that it probably hadn't been discovered earlier because of the placement the trees and the rocks on the far side of the lot

were more obstacles than anything so folks didn't ride their toys near them they unloaded and zipped right into the hills either way was a crazy experience and I'm glad it was one and done I hope that F didn't suffer out there when you first become a trucker you have a lot of delusions about the world or at least I did I was a young man when I got behind the wheel and I didn't know [ __ ] from a shoelace fortunately the road is jam-packed with Gruff greasy degenerate old men that already have made mistakes

for us and boy are they loud about it anytime I stop for coffee or just use the bathroom some Oldtimer would have an earful for me how I could plan a better route drive and manage my time better improve my wheel handling all kinds of things it was always annoying but sometimes there would be cool little Snippets tips and tricks that actually get you out of trouble this story is about making a mistake getting myself into trouble and using my wits to get out of it I don't want to get give away too much of

my personal information so I won't even say what state this happened in let's just say it was North somewhere parallel with the Canadian border that plays a factor in the story as well it's later afternoon I'm skirting my way through a small Township population 11,000 the interstate hooks through this town just like it does with many small communities to keep it inside the loop towns like these are almost like a truck stopping themselves you'll find us sleeping in the information center where the gas station at the edge of town limits or maybe just the Walmart

parking lot they are handy but can be annoying too depending on the time of day nothing like hitting a small town and single hour traffic when you just happen to roll through I just got outside of the town's limits when I saw someone standing on the side of the road a woman she's got her thumb hanging out the sun is starting to dip away I can see she's wearing shorts denim cut offs by the look of it it's already 40 outside but when the Sun goes away it'll plummet to 25 or so well below freezing

and this girl doesn't even have a coat on I could hear a thousand different Old-Timers shouting to me in my head do not pick her up never pick up a hitchhiker I remember a buddy of mine picked up a guy and he wouldn't get out of the cab they're all druggies or crazy they'll steal your [ __ ] and leave you stranded on the side of the highway no matter how bored how lonely how horny you get never pick pick up these people I hit the brakes and rolled onto the shoulder then watched her saunter

up to the passenger door I realized immediately this might have been a mistake this girl is much younger than I pegged her for she looked 20 in The Fading sunlight but now she looks maybe 16 no matter I'm not a danger or a weirdo I really didn't have any intentions but now I'm confused by what this girl is doing out here I put my guard up as I rolled down the window embraced her she was as nice as could be she said her name was Katie and she just needed a lift to the next town

she had some story about coming up here with her friends and getting separated and now wasn't sure where they were Katie said the plan was for them to go back to their Hometown which was about an hour away so she walked to the edge of town and waited as the day went on she didn't see them drive by and she figured maybe she missed them so she started to hitchhike I mean it's almost believable but some of it still sounded weird to me made up I asked her why she didn't use a pay phone or

try to call home in general she said her parents didn't know that she took a trip to the next town over she'd be in deep trouble if she knew that she was so far away at this point I just wanted to get back on the road so I made the mistake of telling her to hop in honestly she was pretty good company for the next 15 minutes I had all kinds of questions about the truck and the job and what I was hauling in the back she seemed like an honest bright curious high schooler had

I known who she really was I would have left her exactly where I found her oh the lessons that I learned I agreed to drop her off from the next town whatever as we're talking the sun is almost gone and we're caught in the dwindling Twilight this is the worst time to drive as Twilight is the trickster hour it messes with your eyes it makes Shadows longer deeper it's when people see whatever their mind Cooks up every trucker can tell you about that well I'm coasting along Katie all of a sudden sits upright and says

what is that she's pointing somewhere ahead of us I lean forward and start the break but I don't see anything only after we roll another 100 ft or so does something appear something scattered all across the road I break and squint over the wheel it's people no doubt about it there are three people people laying in a line across two lanes of the interstate my heart is racing and so is my mind the hell did I just come upon I figured there was an accident maybe they fell out of bed of the truck and no

one noticed I'm 100% certain that I discovered a fatality and need to call it in then I remember that I have a kid in the cab and I don't want her to see what's out there look over to her and she had this weird little grin and it disappears the moment that we make eye contact at this point I pulled onto the shoulder again as to avoid running these people over any more than they have been I looked out my side window to inspect the damage but they all look intact one of them even seems

to be moving a little and looking back up at me the gray beards start chirping in my head again people get desperate and do all kinds of crazy [ __ ] they'll stand in the road just to make you stop if they gotta you see someone in the dark and they're sitting or crawling or doing something weird you never ever stop if you do they're going to hurt you someone standing in the road is so desperate they have nothing to lose I remembered some of those crazy stories that I heard at diners and truck stops

little groups of stranded people coming up with ways to stop traffic and laying in the road was one of those methods this wasn't just hitchhiking these people were far more dangerous everything Clicks in my head and instead of stopping I shift and Rumble right on into into the dark I could actually see Katie's entire demeer change immediately why aren't you stopping she asked me because there's nothing wrong with them I said what they look like they got run over she replies no they looked like they set a trap for me I'll call them in dispatch

and let them know no she screamed and almost smacked my hand away from the radio receiver now I was sure she knew whoever was back there this was all part of some kind of weird racket this girl was running and my good intentions got me caught up in whatever was going on I was so grateful that she was 12 lb teenager and not some 200 lb convict I mean we can call them when we get to the next town the police back there are always busy now she was offering up some kind of excuse things

were getting Stranger by the minute we rolled on as that was literally the only option I was staring at the clock ticking off every minute until we reached the next town I was deciding if I would just kick her out or actually take the time to report her and get everything on the radar my decision was made for me when I saw the police check up ahead not 5 miles outside of the town that we were shooting for the girl turtled up and looked in the back where my bunk was she asked if it would

be okay if she hid police make her nervous or something I said it wasn't going to do any good as I was about to report her anyway and her friends or whoever the hell was in the road back there I stopped where the police directed me to do so and I rolled down my window they already vaguely knew who I was and what was going on the officer asked if I picked up a hitchhiker this evening to which I said yes they asked if the hiker was a girl a young girl again I said yes

indeed she's sitting right next to me they asked if I knew her and I said no and explained I only picked her up because the sun was going down I originally thought that she was an adult upon seeing that she was a kid I felt compelled to get her out of the cold and I didn't realize the gravity of the situation it turns out that Katie's real name was Corey and she and some of her friends had escaped from a local girl school this was real rule living the girl school was more like a juvenile

detention center than anything problem children were sent there criminal children were sent there to avoid jail time as well as for tough foster kids it's where rural communities could send their Wards of the state or kids that families just couldn't handle the proof was in the pudding these girls had a pretty serious History of Violence not just beating up other kids at the detention center but beating up teachers and counselors girls had escaped from this place before stolen cars hold themselves up in houses and just generally created chaos behind them on the run this was

one of the most organized escapes the school had ever seen and Cory planned the whole damn thing they stole a set of keys created this big distraction and one by one they all slipped out into the dead of the night six of them in total including Cory there were two more hiding nearby and three laying in the road to my understanding the plan was for them to get a car to stop Cory would encourage the driver to pull over and then all six of them would beat the piss out of whoever was unlucky enough to

get caught not me though those oldtimers advice had finally bailed me out also Cory's lack of a poker face tuned me in that something was definitely going on she turned on me in an instant hollering a string of insults denying everything and claiming to be a girl named Katie poo the officers opened up the passenger door and started coaxing her out by the sound of it they'd already rounded up her buddies and had them in custody it's not really like they were in huge trouble they were already in a state program so this was more

about their safety and making sure that they were all accounted for also again these girls had escaped from the school before they'd done it all vandalism assault robbery arson you name it only after they cuffed her and started putting her into a squad car did Cory's tune change she started screaming about how she wasn't going back how they weren't her parents all that dramatic stuff she went from pull together Escape criminal to a screaming child in about 5 Seconds it was sobering to watch and actually made me feel better about the whole situation and that

was good because I got extensively questioned after this I probably don't need to tell you how bad it looked for a trucker to be picking up an underage girl and trying to get her out of town only after I explained that she was without a coat pretty much all the logic that I explained earlier did they give me a little room to breathe I explained the attempt to force me to stop and steal my truck and the realization that Cory was running some kind of Racket we all compared notes and came up with the same

conclusion these girls were just planning a crazy escape and I was the first one to stop Cory confirmed there wasn't anything sexual going on which was excellent for me I don't think she realized in the moment that she could have seriously messed up my life with just one little lie it didn't happen though and after a thorough questioning I was allowed to continue onward you better believe I never picked up another hitchhiker after that encounter no matter how cold or poorly dressed that they were that experience put every piece of advice of Old-Timers had given

me into perfect perspective only takes time for the weird stuff to find you on the road this all happened years ago now I'm one of those gray beards and I hassle the youngsters every time I stop for coffee hey everyone thanks for listening if you stuck around at this point if you haven't yet please hit the like button the Subscribe button and that notification Bell to be notified when future episodes come out if you have a true scary story of your own feel free to send it to my email and you can also follow me

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a lot of uh camping and outdoor stories like kind of back to back to back even though I feel like for some reason also unint intentionally that's kind of been a fan favorite on my uh channel uh that wasn't my intention when I first started this but uh I'm glad there's at least one or two themes that most people tend to enjoy the most we have a really good lineup of stories a lot of different themes and stuff like that that I've never even done on this uh Channel period is going to be done next

month so I'm really excited to get to get to some of those um so yeah Missing 411 uh will be out on Thursday and then I have every intention of finally if you are a um if you pay extra like the $5 a month for the extra tier on this channel I am [ __ ] awful dude I know I suck I've only put out like two episodes on it since I started that which is ridiculous um I'm hopefully finally getting into the a rhythm here to the point where I can do that once a

month now sometimes maybe even twice a month um now that I have Zach's help uh it it it seems a lot more feasible so so if you're still paying me $5 a month for next to nothing I promise I'm going to make it up to you I've said this many times but I really genuinely mean that I have every intention of getting that fixed and not fixed well I guess fixed and and done for the future and for um all the months to come so if you're not no big deal don't ever feel obligated to

pay me money for uh the extra tier more than likely it'll only be one maybe two episodes a month but if you do that as well even though you're getting next to nothing I really appreciate every single one of you and for listening um whether you like the episodes or not whether you like this Channel or not I appreciate you and um even even when you comment something negative uh all you're doing is helping me so I appreciate even you um but all outside of that all of you guys for the most part you're all

awesome and I again can't say it enough and I won't stop saying that how much I appreciate every single one of you so I'm going to shut up now I really need to go get some coffee because I'm struggling today and I will see you on Thursday for Missing 411 episode for the missing 41 one I can't even [ __ ] see that's why I tell you I need some coffee right now I'll see you for Thursday's episode how about that going to be a really good one so uh I'm looking forward to it and

you should too I'll see you then guys [Music] cheers