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Enjoy the show. This was a strange encounter and it was very scary at the time, but when I tell people this story, they usually don't think it was something to freak out about.

Last Thanksgiving, I was driving home from college with my friend. We were both 21 at the time.

I live in a very isolated part of Arkansas that requires driving through an hour of hairpin turns in the mountains.

There are a lot of blind turns and the whole time that you're driving, you're on the edge

of these huge drop-offs with no barriers.

I'm usually pretty confident driving through the mountains,

but we were in my friend's car so I was going slower than usual,

driving about five over the speed limit.

Almost as soon as we started through the roughest part of the drive, another car

was tailgating us pretty close. This was stressing me out, and as soon as I saw somewhere

that I could pull over, I did. I pulled into a church parking lot, and my friend offered to drive

the rest of the way, but I declined as it was completely dark, and she had never driven this route before.

We get back on our way, and a few minutes later I have to come to a screeching halt as there's a car

stopped in the middle of the road. It wasn't on the shoulder at all. It was just stopped

dead in the middle of the road.

My friend is saying that they must have broken down,

but can't call a tow because there's no service in this area.

I immediately have a bad feeling and lock the doors. I tell my friend to stay in the car no matter what.

She's starting to get scared at this point. It's parked right before a hairpin turn, so I can't pass.

My friend starts frantically telling me to go ahead and pass it,

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