“TRUE HITCHHIKING HORROR STORIES” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: The open road is a beautiful place where you can make friends that you’d otherwise never meet and have adventures that will change your life. But there are also extreme dangers to traveling with strangers on highways and backroads. No matter how trustworthy or well-intentioned a driver might seem, it's nearly impossible to tell if they are actually a predator or murderer, preying upon innocent hitchhikers. Creepy, true hitchhiker stories can make you think twice before picking up that stranger at the side of the road - or trying to "thumb it" yourself.
SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
“The Hitchhiker” original story at the beginning of this episode was written by HoneyBunny00:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8b53e2
“Hitchhiking Horror Stories” by Isadora Teich for Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3yj8t3ka, by Jacob Shelton for Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s4a2wkz, Eric Redding for ThoughtCatalog.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hk8pn8rf, and from ScaryCarries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2aead59t
“Phantom Hitchhikers” posted at Anomalien.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y4dxkv7m, Kelly Agan for Medium.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/36wucpzm, Paul Adams for The History Press: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8z538u, and Krystal DeCosta for ScientificAmerican.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mr29nkpa
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Stories and content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:43.0 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:47.0 | A recently |
| 0:48.0 | A recently married couple were on a long road trip through the heart of the United States. |
| 0:58.8 | One night it was raining hard and the headlights of their car flashed across an obviously cold wet man on the side of |
| 1:05.1 | the road hitching a lift. They weren't usually ones for taking hitchhikers, but the weather was so bad |
| 1:11.0 | that the husband pulled over and offered the guy a lift. The man thanked them and |
| 1:15.0 | climbed in. He seemed a bit agitated and edgy, but who wouldn't be |
| 1:20.1 | after walking down the street in such a downpour. He barely spoke a word for the whole journey, and eventually the couple dropped him off at a crossroads where he had asked them to let him out, despite the rain coming down in sheets. |
| 1:32.9 | The couple drove on for a good while, then suddenly the car gives out and no amount of keying |
| 1:38.6 | the ignition will make it start again. |
| 1:41.1 | They try turning on the radio, to no avail. The battery is completely drained. |
| 1:46.4 | So the husband tells his wife to stay in the car while he walks ahead in the rain to try and |
| 1:50.6 | get help. The woman locks the doors and sits in silence. Without even the car |
| 1:55.6 | radio to keep her company, she eventually dozes off. She wakes up, seeing flashing police lights |
| 2:02.0 | through the water coming down the windshield, and a voice through |
| 2:04.7 | a loudspeaker, ma'am, open the door, get out of the car and run towards us as soon as you can, |
| 2:09.9 | do it now!" |
| 2:11.9 | The woman's confused but gets out of the car and puts her hands above her head. |
| 2:15.6 | Run and don't look back! orders the police officer. But how do you resist doing so once you |
| 2:22.4 | hear that? |
| 2:23.8 | So the woman turns. |
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