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20 people share the scariest thing they saw while driving at night.

There&#39;s nothing quite like a nice long night drive. The steady hum of the car on a dark road is amazing for clearing the brain from the stress of the day, and it also gives you a new view of the land surrounding you.However, not all night drives provide the peaceful escapism we&#39;d hope for. It&#39;s far easier for people to get away with their most degenerate dealings when the lights are dim, and depending on where you live, everything from robbers to wild animals are out at night.Even when you&#39;re not placed in the direct line of fire, a night drive into the wrong spot can quickly make you a witness to some strange and eerie sights.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the scariest and most unexplainable things they&#39;ve seen while driving at night.1. From QuiteLady1993: I was 19 driving home from my then boyfriend&#39;s house and stopped at a red light on the very edge of town (like city lights behind me but corn fields and shelter belts ahead of me) because it&#39;s like 2 in the morning I&#39;m the only one sitting at the red light. I saw something moving in my peripherals and because of my location I thought it was gonna be a deer. I turned my head and locked eyes with a man maybe in his 50s creeping towards my car. When he saw that I saw him he froze and it was then then that I noticed he had a tire iron. I ran the red light and sped out of there. 2. From mechanicalsam: Brother&#39;s girlfriend at the time was driving though a very rural area of Maine pretty late at night. She saw something small in the road and slowed down. She said as she got closer and closer it looked like a baby crawling across the road.  So she stopped about twenty feet from the baby. But stayed in her car. Once she could see it clearly she could tell it was a baby doll being dragged across the road by a fishing line or something. She said she was just filled with this huge sense of doom and gtfo of there. I think she just floored it right over the doll. 3. From Thereisnoyou: I was working a night shift and rode a moped to work, the headlight was fairly dim but on the way home I saw what I can only describe as what looked like...black pants, floating slowly just overhead but making a walking motion as they passed, I got a good look and I still cant make heads or tails of what it actually was and I sure as f**k wasn&#39;t going back to double check. 4. From jdgrafton: A bit of background: I&#39;m a truck driver, specifically doing shuttle runs for a factory in my city. I run loaded trailers from the factory downtown, to a warehouse 20 miles away, where I drop my loaded trailer, exchange it for an empty, and take it straight back to the factory. I run this route 7-8 times a night; I&#39;m told it&#39;s a diamond in the rough as far as trucking jobs go.  Anyway, my route has me cross this rather precarious highway bridge on the return trip. The bridge is only two lanes wide with no shoulder. The speed limit on the highway is 70 miles an hour, but this bridge has a steep drop and a sharp curve down to surface level, so the recommended speed to take this curve is 45. A few months ago, around 2AM on a Wednesday, I was in the process of rounding this curve when a car was blocking the bridge, and I nearly plowed right into it.  The car didn&#39;t lose control or smash into anything, there weren&#39;t any tire tracks on the pavement, and the car didn&#39;t have any damage. Said car was a brand-new Mercedes SUV with dealer tags, so it probably wasn&#39;t broken down. And nobody was in the car; whoever was driving must&#39;ve just decided to come to a complete stop in the middle of this practically blind corner, get out of his car, and walk away.  The car couldn&#39;t&#39;ve been there for longer than 20 minutes or so; it wasn&#39;t there when I drove past that bridge in the other direction. I didn&#39;t see anyone walking along the highway, either. I have no idea what was going on with the car; when I un-clenched my seat out of my a**hole a minute later, I called the cops to get that car and I never heard anything about it afterward. 5. From incompetentegg: If you see a deer on the road that...isn&#39;t quite right...in some way or another, it&#39;s probably chronic wasting disease. It&#39;s a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease) that often presents in ways like the deer is rotting while still alive. This can mean a lot of things, like deer with weird postures, pieces falling off of them, etc. so in the dark at night it can look really freaky. Like a monster that is trying to look like a deer but didn&#39;t quite get it down.  I&#39;ve heard several &quot;I saw a monster on the side of this mountain road one night&quot; stories that were almost certainly a deer with progressed chronic wasting disease. It&#39;s very sad but also quite fascinating, if it wouldn&#39;t gross you out to read about. 6. From CatiCom: When I was 16 I had a junky convertible 1989 Capri. I loved that car. One night I was driving the backroads home out in the middle of nowhere Missouri. Top down, enjoying the night air. I dove under some low hanging trees and heard a weird SLAP noise from the backseat. Turned around to see a huge black snake frantically slithering towards the safety of under my seat. I nearly wrecked. I hate snakes and even though this rat snake was 100% harmless I was panicked. Pulled over screaming and called my dad to come de-snake my car. I never road with the top down in the country again. 7. From maphes86: I was driving to work, chatting on the phone with my wife to pass the time (6-8 hour drive out to the base from our home) and ahead of me was somebody riding a motorcycle. The road we were on was generally straight (Mojave desert) but had some unpredictable curves because of the road loosely following a broad wash/lake bed (like we&rsquo;ve discussed, Mojave&rsquo;s desert.) the person ahead of me was going between 70-90 MPH and seemed generally familiar With the road. But, then they just sailed straight over the edge of a 45 mph curve going about 80.  I made some reactive, disgusted sound, and hung up with my wife. I immediately pulled over, called 911 and put them in my pocket, got my trauma kit, and put on gloves. I was talking to the dispatcher and explaining what had happened when I step over the bank and see, to my surprise, not a crumpled body in the sage. But a young guy, mid twenties. Picking himself up off the ground about 75 feet ahead of me and 15 feet below. He&rsquo;d been launched from the motorcycle which was in terrible shape about 30 feet from him. I told him to stay still and went through a quick evaluation. He was basically fine, but super rattled (ended up Having a broken collar bone and a mild Concussion). Anyway, it&rsquo;s not a ghost story. But I was absolutely certain I&rsquo;d just seen a person die. And was completely shocked to find him in fine form if a little shaken up. 8. From ellanida: Getting a feeling that I needed to turn my brights on in a dark spot in the middle of town. And there ended up being 4 deer just chilling in the road that I wouldn&#39;t have seen until I was much closer. 9. From Ok-Category9249: My sister and I stopped along Interstate 5 in Oregon in a super random countryside pull out to check something in the car and I look over at her and she&#39;s staring wide-eyred at the door behind me. I turn around just in time to see a hippy guy (probably just homeless guys) reach for the unlocked back door. I screamed &quot;Peel out!!&quot;.and she did covering him with gravel. But c&#39;mon he wasn&#39;t even hitchhiking. He appeared out of a ditch. So we are grown and screaming our damn a**es off which turns into uproarious laughter. Just a bunch of super scared emotions. Poor guy (if he wasn&#39;t a killer). 10. From Lucky_Luna_: My mom tells this story about when she was young and her mom was driving home from shopping. The car they were in broke down, and in the car behind them a guy gets out and offers to help and fix it there at the side of the road. Thing is, after they were done fixing the car (I think she says they ran out of oil or something like that) the guy, and his car, just disappeared. Gone. Nada. Didn&#39;t see him get in the car and leave, just one moment he and his car where there, and then next they were gone. While the story isn&#39;t particularly scary, but my grandmother was petrified, and they drove quietly all the way home. 11. From escherthecat: My mom told me this story. She was in the car with my sister who was driving and they were on their way back from some event. The street lights on this particular stretch of road weren&rsquo;t working very well and it was difficult to see. My sister is chatting away and my mom is watching the road when all of a sudden she sees in front of the car a bike rack, complete with bikes on it, that looked as if it had just dropped off the back of someone&rsquo;s car and they didn&rsquo;t notice.  She screams &ldquo;BIKES&rdquo; at the top of her lungs, my sister swerves, over corrects, spins, and then comes to a stop on the other side of the road facing the opposite direction, miraculously avoiding all the cars that were going by. A few cars stop to make sure they&rsquo;re okay. My sister looks at my mom and asks her how she even saw the bikes because she didn&rsquo;t see them until they were almost about to hit them. My mom said she saw them and it looked like they were illuminated by a gentle blue light, but they looked back and those bikes were just sitting in the darkness. Creepy. 12. From horny_coroner: It was in the dead of the winter and in the middle of night a girl was dancing around on the highway. I almost hit her because it was snowing but I managed swerve. So I got worried and turned around on the next ramp and when driving back she had just disappeared. I was propably just sleep deprived but it felt so real. 13. From taikalainen: My brother and I were driving down a super remote road late at night many years ago. Wildlife was common so we drove slower than was posted. An accident could be fatal on this road. Anyway, it was a particularly dark night so we had the high beams on and were really concentrating on the journey.  We saw it at the same time. It was impossible to miss. My brother hit the brakes and we skidded to a stop in front of the biggest f**king cow on earth. We could have driven under it with room to spare. It was massive. And it stared at us without seeming to see us. The vibe was so creepy. Other cows were around but they were regular sized. This guy was the king of all bovine.  It doesn&#39;t seem all that weird when telling the story but something was just off with this creature. It didnt seem quite...natural. 14. From uneasyandcheesy: A friend and I were driving down some gravel roads one night, aimlessly turning and trying to get lost and find our way back home out of boredom.  So we&rsquo;re driving down a long stretch and it&rsquo;s pitch black out, no houses or lights nearby just the gravel and fields around us. Suddenly I see a large, black mass running next to the car and keeping up with us. I scream and point, my friend screams and slams on the brakes. We&rsquo;re both in sheer panic mode as this thing stops and turns around to run back at the car. I thought this was the end. Some paranormal creature was about to kill us.. annnnd it was just a big, black, wild dog.  The relief and laughter that followed felt so good after being so f**king scared. The dog was huge to be fair but it keeping up with the car while we drove is what had me thinking it wasn&rsquo;t some normal animal we see out here. 15. From DieselDown: Four years ago I&rsquo;m driving across the Colorado / New Mexico border at around 4AM and I&rsquo;m looking for a place to stop for fuel. I happened along the smallest and saddest little farm town with only one tiny gas station. I hadn&rsquo;t seen another car for hours, it&rsquo;s freezing cold, and it felt like this town was abandoned it was that quiet... honestly it was kind of cool except for the cold.  I&rsquo;m pumping away feeling like I&rsquo;m completely alone, until I notice another car in the shadows near the back of the building. Flashy black low rider with completely tinted windows and 4 &ldquo;right out of a Mexican Gangster movie&rdquo; looking guys leaning against it. I remember laughing because 1, they startled the hell out me and 2, they were wearing the black shorts, wife beater tank tops and the knee high socks. Remember it was FREEZING cold, it was the middle of nowhere, and they looked so casual.  Without a word, all 4 got off the car and walked straight towards me until I could see the full sleeves and face tattoos under the pump lights. Dropped the gas pump, fired up the motor and did the greatest 0-100 that old girl had ever seen. Not 20 seconds after burning out onto the highway, I see headlights swerve out and follow me. Little did they know, my beat up looking dodge truck had the hemi motor and a couple of upgrades, they never had a chance and after a few miles their headlights disappeared in my rear view mirror.  I didn&rsquo;t think much of it, and even laughed at how bad I outran them till a cop buddy told me about the Mexican Cartels running drugs through there to avoid the Interstate. I wasn&rsquo;t laughing anymore. 16. From mrbeefthighs: I used to date this girl who lived in a house in the middle of the woods and her driveway was like a mile long single car road. I was driving up it around midnight to go home and my driver&#39;s side window exploded and showered me with glass.  Turns out a deer had rammed into the driver side of my car. Completely destroyed that side and I had to get out of the passenger&rsquo;s side. I never even saw the deer, I assume it ran away but there was a perfect hoof print in one of the doors. 17. From Aubsedobs: It wasn&rsquo;t exactly something I saw, but some point halfway through my drive home, at about 8:30ish at night, a guy started following me. It couldn&rsquo;t have been for very long, because I didn&rsquo;t notice he was there until I pulled into my driveway and he parked there at the entrance, got out, hiking his horn and screaming some sort of nonsense. Bunch of sh*t like &ldquo;we f**king know where you live! F**k you!&rdquo; over and over again and not saying anything about why he had followed me. F**kin terrified me. Worst thing? Happened two days ago. Still have no idea why or who it was. Been staying at my mom&rsquo;s bc if some random angry man knows where I live then for the time being I don&rsquo;t live there. 18. From BECKYISHERE: I once saw something late at night in the headlights on a dark country road which was sandy coloured, about the size of a small cat with about twenty feet of tail following it, running really quickly, real wtf stuff.  Some thirty years pass, and then I find out on reddit what it was. Someone posted a video of a pale rat with lots of smaller rats all holding onto each others tails and running like that. 19. From Windshards2: Around midnight at Rio de Janeiro and two boys on foot (maybe 16, 17 y/o) with assault rifles attempt to make me stop the car by pointing their guns at me, screaming &quot;stop, stop&quot; and closing the road with their own bodies.  It was a sharp turn and I entered exceptionally fast because there were almost no cars at the street and I was rushing home, and that&#39;s what made me react as not stopping. The entire thing lasted only for a split second, as I barely saw their faces. On the next split I started wondering: &quot;WTF, I have almost just died tonight.&quot; 20. From nannerdooodle: I&#39;ve got two. First, I was driving home from visiting family late at night. I was on a two lane highway in the middle of nowhere. Farms all around and spotty cell phone reception. If you didn&#39;t have headlights on, you couldn&#39;t see anything. My radio started cutting out and my headlights started getting dimmer all of a sudden. I turned the radio off and was just listening to the silence as my headlights were getting worse and worse, when all of a sudden, I hit a huge bump in the road. My radio came back on LOUD and my headlights were at full brightness. It was the weirdest car thing I&#39;ve ever dealt with. But I would have been screwed if I&#39;d broken down out there.  Second, driving home from a friend&#39;s house in the city at 2AM. As I&#39;m coming around a corner I see this creature crawling along the road. It was definitely larger than a raccoon, but smaller than a medium sized dog. It was moving slowly and sort of wobbled as it walked. I slowed down because I wanted to see what on earth it was. As I get up along size it, it scurries directly toward my car and I stepped on the gas. I looked in my rearview mirror and nothing was there. Still not sure what it was... 