92. Long Haul Horror: Ghost Sightings and Creepy Encounters on The Open Road

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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From ghostly hitchhikers and terrifying truck stops to suspicious looking roadkill and strange noises in the dead of night, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether it’s an eerie sense of being watched or bizarre encounters with the supernatural, truckers share the scariest moments they've had while driving through the darkness. Buckle up and join us for a ride into the unknown – it’s going to be a long, dark road. Subscribe on Patreon for bonus content and to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society. Patrons have access to bonus content as well as other perks. And members of our High Council on Patreon have access to our after-show called Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. Apple subscriptions are now live! Get access to bonus episodes and more when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Follow on Tik Tok and Instagram for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0	Church was driving down the Arizona State Highway 87, a route he had done a bunch of times.
0:39.7	He was in between Phoenix and Payson, a part of the highway that runs mostly through desert
0:45.4	with really nothing on either side for miles. It can be really mind-numbing, driving through
0:51.7	the empty landscape, especially at 2.30 in the morning, like William was doing.
0:57.5	So I imagine he was doing his best to stay awake, when all of a sudden he caught something out of the
1:04.6	corner of his eye. It was like a flash of light on the right side of the road, almost like there was a piece of metal or something
1:12.5	that his lights reflected off of, a car on the shoulder, perhaps. But as fast as he saw it,
1:19.6	he drove past it. He checked his rearview mirror only to see nothing. Whatever was there was
1:26.3	completely gone. Eventually, he pulled over to a truck stop,
1:31.2	but was still thinking of that weird light. So he decided to look at his dash cam footage.
1:36.8	It had been recording the whole time, and maybe it had caught a clearer image. But he could
1:43.2	have never guessed what he was about to see. There was
1:48.0	something on the side of the road near the 200-mile marker, and it wasn't a solid object.
1:54.0	William looked on in confusion and honestly terror as the video showed him passing by a transparent human shape in the road.
2:04.1	It looked like a small woman or a child walking. The footage ended up being picked up by
2:11.3	news organizations, and the public could not believe what they were seeing either. No matter
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