THE LONG HAUL TO HELL: Real Truck Stop Horror Stories | Paranormal and True Crime
Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.
IN THIS EPISODE: Did lost cosmonauts make it into space before Yuri Gagarin? (The Tombs in Space) *** Don't take a gift from Gracie Watson's grave... or her life-like statue might cry tears of blood. (Gracie’s Ghost) *** A latchkey kid comes home to an empty house… or so they thought until they heard footsteps in another room. (The Laundry Room) *** People often encounter strange and frightening things when they experience sleep paralysis – but in one particular story, the horrors began well before going to bed. (Sleep Paralysis in Bangkok) *** Did Bonnie Scott run away? Was she kidnapped? Murdered perhaps? All anyone knew was that no one had a clue where she was. She had simply disappeared without a trace. (The Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scott) *** Samuel Joselyn was buried in 1810 in a North Carolina cemetery. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Samuel was actually DEAD at the time of his burial! (Buried Alive in Wilmington) *** in 1894 Rosa Lochner was a witness to murder, but she had been deaf since birth and her spoken vocabulary was limited. So how could she testify against the accused? (Murder In Pantomime) *** A boy wakes to find his previously closed curtains now open – and the only explanation involves a previous resident of the house he’s nowliving in. (Strange Manifestations) *** Mention the word “Chupacabra” and most people will think of a strange, hairless dog-like animal. They are never described as having the ability to fly… until now. (Winged Chupacabras) *** These UFOs aren’t shiny metallic discs or cigar-shaped spaceships. They are humanoid – and they fly without the help of a jetpack, wings, cape or even a broom to sit on. And the sightings are still coming in all throughout Mexico. (The Flying Humanoids of Mexico) *** The North Carolina Cherokee have a story about how dangerous it can be even near a calm river – where the waters can suddenly foam and a giant beast can appear on the rocks. (James and the Giant Leech) ***Supernatural women, shadowy men, odd animal sightings, and more… they can all be found at late-night truck stops if you’re not careful. (Truck Stop Horror Stories)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In #1 (Truck Stop Horrors)
00:01:07.291 = Lead-In #2 (Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scott)
00:02:52.812 = Show Open
00:06:05.191 = The Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scott
00:17:51.945 = The Tombs In Space
00:36:04.582 = Gracie’s Ghost
00:41:21.481 = The Laundry Room (by Anonymous)
00:43:31.415 = Sleep Paralysis in Bangkok (by Mark iO)
00:51:31.441 = True Truck Stop Horror Stories
01:17:45.625 = Buried Alive in Wilmington
01:22:17.553 = Murder in Pantomime
01:27:30.229 = Strange Manifestation (by Brian Abraham)
01:31:56.159 = Winged Chupacabras
01:40:38.608 = The Flying Humanoids of Mexico
01:52:36.560 = James and the Giant Leech
01:56:59.016 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Tombs in Space” posted at The Unredacted: http://ow.ly/nW5U30mwbWw
“Gracie’s Ghost” by Gary Sweeney for The Line Up: http://ow.ly/arFz30mwaLc
“The Murder of Bonnie Leigh Scott” by Troy Taylor for American Hauntings Ink: http://ow.ly/v6wX30mwbwW
“The Laundry Room” submitted anonymously to Weird Darkness
“Sleep Paralysis in Bangkok” by MarkiO for YourGhostStories.com: http://ow.ly/FUOD30mwc0C
“Truckstop Horror Stories” by Erin McCann for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/wldxxnl
“Buried Alive in Wilmington” by TheresaHPIR for Theresa’s Haunted History of the Tri-State: https://tinyurl.com/rr4cvoh
“Murder in Pantomime” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y97rswf5
“Strange Manifestation” by Brian Abraham posted at My Haunted Life Too: https://tinyurl.com/wmlzd22
“Winged Chupacabras” by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/th8p7ox
“The Flying Humanoids of Mexico” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/urxujoc
“James and the Giant Leech” by James Mooney from the book “Myths of the Cherokee”: https://amzn.to/2JHpUFo
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Originally aired: November 07, 2018
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice. (AI Policy)
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| 0:00.0 | Another one is that Jones is at 27 now. New porcelain paving. Looks like Taralis Nordic. Everyone's going Nordic these days. Is the same fella doing it again? Ooh, dark bath. He's using Darkbath Seek a jointing compound. Betty's got a trade account at you, son. Terralis porcelain paving from £22 per square metre and seek a fast-fits jointing compound at 2999 each. |
| 0:21.9 | Plus, get 10% off if you buy two tubs. |
| 0:24.3 | All trade prices XVAT at 20%. |
| 0:26.8 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses. |
| 0:33.8 | If you understand the freewheeling nature of life on the road, you also understand |
| 0:45.0 | that scary truck stop stories get much more horrific than the casual observer might think. |
| 0:52.4 | A truck stop provides a 24-hour hub where people from all walks |
| 0:57.4 | of life pass through on their way to somewhere else, and who knows who they are or where |
| 1:03.8 | they're going. For all you know, they just escaped from prison, or are fleeing a kidnapper, |
| 1:10.1 | or something more terrifying. |
| 1:12.4 | For truckers and truck stop employees, these creepy experiences may sound like just another |
| 1:20.4 | day or night on the job, but listening to truckers describe scary sights at truck stops |
| 1:26.3 | should give anyone goosebumps. |
| 1:29.1 | Music The story of Bonnie Lee Scott is a forgotten Chicago tragedy. |
| 1:54.1 | Bonnie vanished on September 22, 1956. |
| 1:58.8 | That evening, around 6.30 p.m., she left the home where she lived in Addison, Illinois, |
| 2:03.6 | and told her grandmother that she was going to go out and look for a blouse. Bonnie lived |
| 2:08.7 | with her aunt and uncle, Mrs. Robert Schwallow, their daughter, Sue, 15, and Bonnie's maternal |
| 2:14.8 | grandmother, Mrs. Doris Hitchens. Her parents were separated and in the |
| 2:19.9 | midst of a divorce. Bonnie was an ordinary girl, a sophomore at York Community High School, |
| 2:26.4 | and a babysitter for many of the young children who lived in the quiet suburban community. |
| 2:31.3 | The five-room newly built ranch house where she lived was virtually |
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