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The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

Lot 125: The Shortcut

The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings

Lauren Shand

Society & Culture, Fiction, Drama, Arts

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

130 million people take road trips every year.

0:04.0

15,400 of them are never seen again.

0:08.0

Have you heard the story of the passenger that's been circulating online lately?

0:14.0

A young couple set out on a van life road trip, but a few nights in,

0:19.0

they came across a brutal car accident on the side of the road.

0:23.7

I'm not talking about a typical crash. Something about this was off. And there's one detail that

0:30.4

keeps coming up. The car they found had three deep scratches carved into the side.

0:38.9

Not dense.

0:41.0

Scratches.

0:43.4

They stopped.

0:44.7

They saw it.

0:46.4

And then they left.

0:50.2

But here's where things got strange.

0:55.2

Not long after, creepy things start happening.

1:00.3

They began to feel like they weren't alone in the van,

1:03.7

like something followed them from that road.

1:08.9

People online have started connecting it to something they're calling,

1:10.5

the passenger supposedly it

1:13.2

attaches itself to anyone who encounters it and marks their car with three scratches

1:18.8

and once that happens it doesn't let go if these reports are true this couple didn't just witness something on that highway.

1:30.7

They carried it with them.

1:33.8

From Andre Overdoll, director of autopsy of Jane Doe, comes passenger.

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