4 Disturbing TRUE Hitchhiking Horror Stories

[Music] it was a rainy night and I was driving home from my shift at the late night Diner I work at it was a quiet shift at work I had a weird amount of energy still so I knew I was going to have to pop a melatonin when I got home I was driving my usual route a Scenic Road during the day but majorly dark at night lacking many light posts there's the occasional little parking lot with cute little strips of stores or family-owned restaurants and shops and then just stretches of nothingness and by nothingness I mean Forest obviously I was passing one of the aformentioned parking lots of a well-known Deli and under a light post was a woman standing out in the rain with her arm held out she was waving me down I slowed as I realized it was a slightly older woman who appeared to be in her mid-50s maybe this woman was really tall like 511 or 6t but very skinny I lowered my window and yelled do you need a ride she came over to the front door and opened it shanting how much of a hero I am I asked where she's heading and she said just up the road to town she was soaking wet getting my car all wet but I like to think of myself as a good person and I couldn't in good conscious leave another woman out there in the cold rain however picking up a random man on the other hand would be a different story the woman seemed sweet but I noticed as I looked at her while talking to her she was missing a few teeth very very off-putting I had to now wonder if she were homeless she didn't smell or look like a homeless person though but the rain soaking her and her clothes could have been masking any sense temporarily plus her hair was so wet that what may have usually been scraggly undone hair could now have been weighted down and straightened by the water either way the woman was smiling the whole time and didn't seem like a threat we pulled up to an intersection with a gas station on one corner I pulled in next to a pump might as well fill up I asked her if she wanted anything from inside I was really doing my good deed for the week she said no thanks honey so I went inside to pay the attendant for guests and some spike seltzers since tomorrow was the weekend when I got back to my car the woman was gone I looked around the gas station lot real quick but it was Tiny she was gone she must have ran off somewhere I felt slightly bad feeling like she was some lost helpless woman but part of me also felt slightly relieved I filled up the tank of my SUV and I was on my way home when I got back to the house I went straight inside my apartment which is the first level of a two family house there's a tenant upstairs and me the front door into the fo was usually left unlocked then the two doors leading to each apartment were locked I let myself in out of the rain and into my apartment I set the shelters down on the counter I wasn't that tired yet so I took a melatonin and tried to go to bed even with the Melatonin though I was having a hard time sleeping that night my mind was kind of going wild with thoughts a lot of thinking about that woman I picked up earlier and what happened to her at certain points I heard slight sounds from outside of my bedroom but I dismissed them as sounds from the upstairs tenant boy do I wish I was more suspicious before falling asleep I woke up in my dark bedroom something that usually would never happen when I take a melatonin I usually sleep like a baby through the night I sat up feeling drowsy feeling really thirsty too I reached over the table next to my bed for my water and then I saw and heard something across the room from me I saw someone crouched in the corner of my bedroom behind a clothing dresser with their legs folded I had to be hallucinating it I shook my head violently and made weird noises I even slapped myself in the face and now whoever was in the corner stood up and walked out of the room I didn't scream I didn't say a word I sat in my bed in literal shock the part that had me questioning my sanity for a bit after the figure was gone was that there wasn't a single sound from outside the room after this no footsteps not the sound of a door closing I grabbed my phone and called my dad he picked up confused why I was calling so late I told him of what I just saw and he said Trish you probably just had a night terror I stayed on the phone with him as I was continuing to become more awake and I left my room and turned on the lights to the living room outside it was a small space there was no one in there I looked around the entire space and could confirm no one was there I started to believe that maybe I did just hallucinate it but still I slept with the bedroom door locked that night when I woke up in the morning I drank some coffee and got dressed for the gym I went to open the door to the foyer and realized it was already unlocked my heart sank last night what I saw was it real I did another look around the apartment confirming no one was inside I went out to my car and opened the back door to put my gym bag in the back seat and that's when I noticed the damp yellow brownish stains all over the floor in the back and my blanket that I always had back there was gone I wanted to cry or scream I figured it out that woman snuck into the back seat last night when I was in the gas station she either somehow unlocked the door to my apartment or I mistakenly left it unlocked I called my dad again frantically asking him what to do he said check and make sure nothing was stolen and if nothing was then calling the police really wouldn't do anything I checked the house and didn't find anything to be missing just my blanket from the car I skipped the gym that day in fact I stayed bottled up in my apartment for a while after that I was just genuinely Disturbed I didn't want to live there for much longer after that and so after that month I found a new place to [Music] live this happened a few months ago and I don't know why I agreed but I decided to go with my friend Michael to a house party he was attending during our first year of high school even though I wasn't even invited Michael was able to pull some strings and I accepted the invitation knowing that I wouldn't be able to drive I made the choice to go with Michael when we arrived at the home late at night Michael told me to leave my phone in the car he explained that maybe I could lose it or someone I don't know could try and take it from me while I'm not looking at first I was confused I simply nodded and we got out of the car I went with Michael into the home more backyard where the party was taking place I glanced around the backyard and saw people engaging in various activities such as smoking drinking and possibly even doing drugs in small groups Michael had encouraged me to go mingle and say hello to a few people after a few hours I realized I had way too much to drink because my vision was completely foggy after getting closer to the house I leaned against the wall to support myself as I did so I noticed the time on my watch indicated that it was either midnight or or 1:00 in the morning I knew it was time to leave so I set out to find Michael and despite my overwhelming need to collapse I scanned the yard for him but I was unable to locate him or see him when I asked a few others if they'd seen Michael they all said they had not I decided to call Mike to find out where he was so I reached inside my pocket to feel for my phone but it wasn't there and I cursed myself in the back of my mind because I realized that I had left my phone in Michael's car it disappeared with him I realized there was only one way to get home which was walking because I remembered my house wasn't too far from this house but the night was chilly because it was fall I thought about just asking someone else to take me home but I didn't know anyone else that could help so I stuck with my idea of walking home in the darkness by myself I then got to the road and started stumbling down the street and I knew I had too many drinks because I felt lightheaded and dizzy a few minutes later I made it to the main area of the street and kept walking I lazily started thinking about a bunch of different things like why did Michael decide to leave me alone at the party or why I decided to listen to Michael's idiotic idea of leaving my phone in his car so I couldn't call him or anyone else I started cursing myself for being so careless with my drinking and even getting drunk knowing I shouldn't have done that I stopped walking on the side of the road because I was getting tired and I crossed my arms over my chest tightly to keep myself warm then I remembered something I could do which was hitchhiking and I then held out my arm and stuck out my thumb hoping someone else could see me I watched as a couple cars drove past me they wouldn't stop and as minutes ticked by I started feeling uneasy thinking I would have to start walking again it was past 1: in the morning and there were a few cars driving past me but no one was stopping because they either didn't notice me or didn't care I hesitated and thought about walking home again but I realized that in my drunken state it would be too daunting I was still holding out my thumb when a gray truck pulled up and stopped in front of me and I smiled as I stumbled towards the vehicle the window rolled down and an old there looking man with a beard ask me if I needed a ride I told him yes and then told him where my house was before getting into the truck feeling grateful for the ride as we started driving down the road the man started trying to make small talk with me asking what happened to me however I was too disoriented to have an actual conversation with him and the only things I could manage to say were low mumbl or just murmurs and groans as we turned the corner to my street away from the party I started feeling uneasy for some reason I couldn't shake the feeling that something was strange about this man suddenly we drove past my house and I told the man that we had just driven past it and I felt my gut telling me to get out but I couldn't because I was too drunk to move I was about to tell the man to let me out before we got too far away from my house when suddenly the man turned to me and I noticed he had a Sinister look on his face you know you shouldn't be drunk while you're hitchhiking because you'd make a very easy target the man said smirking Darkly the man reached over and started rubbing my leg and I didn't know what he was trying to do but I knew it probably wasn't anything good but before he could do anything else to me we both heard a loud siren behind the car and then a flashing red and blue light flooded the night I realized it was the police and I jumped for Joy inside the man panicked and stopped unlocking the doors which allowed me to jump out of the car I ran as fast as I could and the police officer rushed over to me and I told him the entire story about what happened to me unfortunately nothing illegal happened per se at that point the police officer told me that he was looking for someone in a gray truck who had apparently stolen something from a store I'm not sure if it was the man who picked me up or someone else but I was just glad the police officer stopped the car a cop gave me a ride home and I decided from there on I wouldn't get so drunk that I couldn't think straight I now know the importance of being responsible and staying aware of my surroundings even when having a good [Music] time I was still in college when this happened I went to a big party school in Upstate New York I wasn't in a sorority but I attended a lot of the Frat parties still I had a heavy drinking phase in college unfortunately but I guess it's good that I got it out of my system there was an upcoming frat party that my friends Deanna and Kayla wanted to go to I was not one to ever say no to a party unless I was already deathly hung over and even then I'd sometimes be known to still go out I was living in a house off campus with three other girls we were not a sorority house or team house or anything like that just four friends renting a house together I believe it was a Kappa Sigma party that we were going to the house was about 20 minutes away from campus we pregamed pretty heavily at our house and then we called an Uber which we all split on the Uber ride there we pregamed some more which was a recipe for Disaster by the time we showed up to the party I was borderline blacked out I just barely remember the layout of that house I'd never been to a CA party besides that night it's weird I have short spans of memory from that night I vaguely remember the outside that there were a bunch of frat guys standing out front of the house and then I remember the DJ in the living room and the two beer pong tables in the kitchen I was later told that I played beer pong with some random frat guy and ended up talking to him in a corner for a big chunk of the night but after that nobody knows where I went I couldn't even tell you the last thing I remember before waking up sleeping on the grass on the side of the road in a days my head was throbbing I had to still be somewhat intoxicated it was Pitch Black outside I was laying by a bunch of trees like a wooded area apart from the University there wasn't much up there besides woods and the occasional little town there were a couple light posts further down the road so I wasn't just laying in complete darkness I patted down my pockets looking for my phone and I had a meltdown when I realized my pockets were empty I was also missing my cross body bag I had absolutely nothing on me I started to freak out I couldn't even call for help let alone check the time or where I was I looked around the immediate area by where I was sleeping nothing my white shirt was stained with dirt but that was the least of my worries I started walking down the road closer to the light posts I was starting to realized there were no buildings in sight I was on some completely random back road I leaned on the light pole for a few minutes wondering what to do I decided I'd wait for someone to pass by and ask for help it took a long time though at least 15 minutes before I noticed headlights down the road I stepped out onto the road waving my arms and jumping trying to ensure I got their attention the car slowed to a stop on the side of the road I approached the car and the guy inside rolled down the window once he asked me if I was all right I told him I was stranded without a phone and needed a ride home he told me to get in and I did making sure to let him know how much I appreciated it he of course asked me about my predicament how I found myself stranded on the side of the road I told him I was at a party and the next thing I remembered was waking up on the side of the road in hindsight I should not have said any of that I should have been as vague as possible not let this guy know that I got completely trashed and was vulnerable he asked why I didn't call for help and I told him I lost my cell phone too the guy looked at me like I was a [ __ ] I looked back at him for a second and this was the first time I really analyzed his features he was like 35 he wasn't the best looking guy he had a thin goatee and a big nose I gave him my address to put into his house as he drove he put the address in and then I heard him say under his breath okay here we go I asked how far away we were and he said about 20 minutes that sounded about right since the frat house was about 20 minutes from our house I thought things would go smoothly I'd get dropped off at the house where Kayla and Deana would be waiting for me with my belongings but nothing can ever go that smoothly the man spoke in a gentle voice basically the entire time he was asking basic questions at first his soft voice was almost in a weird way off-putting like why was he talking in an almost whisper in the car we drove on and on for what seemed like over 20 minutes on the same road I started to get concerned and so I asked him how much further we had he didn't respond right away so I said sir and he went hm and I repeated my question he said in his soft voice not far this wasn't right our house is in town yet we were still on the same same back road with nothing but trees everywhere I started noticing in my peripheral vision that he would look at me multiple times like he'd move his whole head to stare at me for a few seconds and then look back at the road I was starting to feel sick I asked him if he put the right address in and he said yes then he said what color underwear are you wearing as he put his hand on my knee and started rubbing my knee I moved it away and told him in a desperate voice to please not hurt me I just want to get home safe he said why would I hurt you after saying this he pulled onto the grass on the side of the road and put the car in park and he was about to lean over towards me and do something like put his arms around me but I didn't let him I opened the door and ran into the woods luckily I was wearing my air force on so I didn't have a hard time running in the woods I ran only just enough to be out of sight from the car when I could no longer see its headlights I heard the Man For the First Time raising his voice and he yelled into the woods where you at I just want to like your [ __ ] I put my hands over my mouth not only to muffle my breathing but because of pure fear I waited and waited until I heard a car door slam shut and the sound of a car speeding off I waited a few more moments before walking back to the road confirming he was gone I felt truly helpless I didn't want to run into that man again but I also needed someone else to help me I waited just at the edge of the woods for another car to come and eventually one did I saw saw the headlights approaching from afar but I waited until I was sure that it was a different car before jumping out and waving my arms and yelling the car came to a stop it was another man this guy a little older I sat in the back seat this time I was so shaken up that I hardly spoke apart from answering whatever questions about my predicament he asked thankfully this man dropped me off at the house it was like 4:00 a. m. at this point my friends were still awake waiting for me they had my phone and my bag they were contemplating calling the police if I didn't come back by morning no one had any clue who I left with or how I ended up on the side of the road the boy who I was with claims he wasn't the one to leave with me in fact there's no solid proof that I even left with anyone but that leaves no explanation how I ended up sleeping on the side of the road I cut back heavily on the drinking after this night and I never want to be in a situation again where I have to hitchhike [Music] out of the Dark Forest I was hitchhiking from lifei Germany to Paris he was a French man a somewhat dirty and unshaven driver small and shabby he agreed to give me a ride in his car a ride with him to Paris where I needed to pick up my paintings from an exhibition I had there it was October I was 29 years old and he seemed about the same age he spoke broken English I spoke spoke no French at all I really didn't have a clue who this guy was the day was mild sunny and blue it was a warm and comfortable French day a great day to hitchhike it was around 4:30 p.

m. when I met him at a gas station somewhere in France I hopped into his little old car happy to have scor a ride we drove off to Paris on the main Highway after some small talk mainly about where I'm from he reached over my lap and opened the glove compartment he pulled out what looked like a bunch of passports they were passports he handed me all four the first pretty girl was his girlfriend who died falling off the back of his motorcycle he said the second his girlfriend who died in a car crash he told me the third girlfriend died from a brain tumor and the fourth fell off of a horse he said I'm such an unlucky man I agreed he was unlucky the uneasiness started then and only grew as the miles rolled on he was in possession of four young women's passports soon after showing me the passports the man said he wanted to take a shortcut to Paris it wasn't really a question to me excellent I thought get me out of here ASAP I assumed we would cut through some charming French villages on secondary roads past houses and Farms but no instead we turned off onto an implausible Dirt Road off the main Highway uh-oh I thought not good but I kept silent why we keep quiet is a mystery perhaps because of our dumb manners at first the road was out in the open through a field we rolled over the typically Vivid green French Hillside until we finally reached the oncoming heavy Woods the road narrowed it grew instantly darker as we entered the Forest Road and drove in the interior of the forest was creepy the woods looked like the perfect place to hide something I still found the woods beautiful beautiful and Dradful it was at this point that my French driver shouted in broken English I don't want speak English anymore this was definitely not a request then silence uncomfortable silence in the darkening Forest I started to feel a small trickle of adrenaline in my body my fight ORF flight Instinct was warming up communication had now officially ended just silence I pondered this because I knew I would surely have questions as we would get deeper and deeper into the thickening Woods I knew though that I wouldn't ask anything nothing it was now 5 p. m.

and the sun was fading fast the woods grew darker the driver seemed so tense and I could tell he was in deep thought I noticed his lips moving almost imperceptibly it was rigid snake likee I myself had moved my hand to the car door handle a movement I'm sure could not have been missed the car was slowing down it did not say a word was I going to die now did he have a gun I looked all these questions ran through my head my life was now surreal this was not my plan maybe I communicated with my captor in some secret way maybe I gave off some kind of male Theron perceptible only to men facing off I possessed my own rage issues and I was not going down without a fight that I knew there would be no begging or cries of Mercy from me not to this [ __ ] I also had my own Secret store room of crazy I was big and strong at that time Road tough through my travels and there's no substitute for my nothing to lose stare that is all I gave him something very primitive transpired between us then I think rather quickly in a matter of seconds it's a sort of inner calculus as to whether one can overcome stop or kill the other guy or not and all its peripheral considerations not the least blood gore strength and alas dying I don't think these calculations are the same when the victim is small and scared begging and weak I think between those two uneven people it just becomes blood lust power Panic scratching and doom 5:12 p. m.