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Lost in the Night with a Mysterious Driver - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Three months after I turned 16 in 2005, I got my first car, a
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  99 Toyota Camry, on a warm Saturday night.
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  When my friend Alex invited me over to one of his friends big
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  parties, I knew I wouldn't be in a condition to drive the Camry
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  home afterward. So we carpooled with Alex's
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  girlfriend Brianna. We lived in the countryside of
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  Virginia, meaning less big parties.
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  Meaning when there was a big party it was a huge deal and
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  everyone would go. We lived about 5 to 10 minutes
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  away from this kids house. I knew where he lived as I was
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  acquainted with him but not exactly friends.
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  The whole ride there we took the same 2 lane highway type Rd.
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  through the woods and this kids house was actually on this road
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  further down. At certain points on this road
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  there were a few houses on either side and then it would
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  just go back to being a long empty highway again.
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  The house was tiny like a lot of houses around the area, but the
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  party was held outside anyways since his closest neighbors were
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  relatively far away and noise wasn't an issue.
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  I'll skip most of the party up until the point that Brianna,
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  who was supposed to be our designated driver, had to
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  suddenly leave for a small family emergency.
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  Alex said it was fine and that we'd find a ride home.
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  Well Fast forward another few hours and another few drinks and
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  I could barely even walk straight.
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  I checked my watch and it was like 2 in the morning.
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  I figured it was time to go. I started looking for Alex but I
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  couldn't find him anywhere. In fact, it seemed like
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  everybody I knew had already left.
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  I could barely even think straight, but I was still.
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  Furious at the fact that Alex could have actually left.
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  Without me, I asked to use the party host's phone and dialed
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  Alex's home number. After two tries, I gave up and
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  then realized I shouldn't wake his family up.
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  So, literally not knowing what else to do, I dizzily stepped
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  out onto the road and began walking back home.
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  I knew this walk would take anywhere from half an hour to an
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  hour in my condition. Maybe after 15 minutes of
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  walking down the road, the slight shine of car headlights
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  on the road was fading in from behind me.
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  Jumping for joy inside, I lifted up my arm and stuck out my
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  thumb. As the car neared, it slowed
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  down and came to a stop right next to me.
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  The man driving the 98 Ford Explorer rolled down the window
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  and asked where you headed. I told him my house was just
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  down the road and beyond a right turn.
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  Probably slurring my words beyond comprehension, he
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  chuckled and told me to hop in. I thanked him and joyously
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  hopped into the truck. I was exhausted and I remember
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  completely disregarding things the guy was asking me because I
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  was so close to just passing out.
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  And that's what happened. The memories of being in that
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  truck turned to a fog as I'm sure I passed out.
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  The next thing I remember, I woke up still in the moving
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  truck. The guy looked at me and laughed
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  but didn't say anything. I looked around and realized the
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  road we were on wasn't familiar. I nervously asked.
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  Where are we going? He then said.
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  So what were you doing out this late anyway?
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  As the man answered my very straightforward question with
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  another irrelevant question, the sobering reality of the
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  situation hit me. You can, you can let me out
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  anywhere, I told the man. The man responded with a firm
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  no, I felt like throwing up as he said that no, I really
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  actually felt like I was going to throw up.
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  I started to gag as I felt more and more nauseous.
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  By the 2nd. The man took his eyes off the
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  road to look at me and that's when I thought of the perfect
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  distraction. I turned in his direction as I
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  continued to gag and he started to kind of lean away and slow
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  down the car. Thankfully I drank as much as I
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  did because I finally threw up and made a point of doing it all
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  over the man's lap. The man yelled in frustration
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  and stopped the car, and that's when I took it upon myself to
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  run for my life into the woods and duck behind a few bushes.
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  The man came following into the woods with a flashlight and on 2
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  separate occasions he shined the light straight over me without
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  noticing. Eventually I heard his footsteps
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  walk even further into the woods past me.
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  That was when I ran back to his truck, but unfortunately he was
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  smart enough to lock it. By some miracle, I saw another
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  car approaching in the distance and I ran out into the middle of
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  the street, waving my arms like a lunatic.
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  The car tried to avoid me, but I wouldn't let it.
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  They were forced to stop and I yelled at them to help me before
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  they came back. Once I told them that I was
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  kidnapped by the man who was driving that Ford Explorer, the
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  driver agreed to give me a lift, not to the police station or
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  anything, but to my house. I made it back safely where I
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  couldn't thank the driver enough.
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  I immediately woke up my parents and told them my dad wanted to
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  know if I got his tag number and then I felt like punching myself
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  in the face. I failed to get the simplest
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  information from the guy that would have allowed me to
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  actually properly report him. All I knew was that he drove a
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  faded blue 99 Ford Explorer. I made sure to give Alex a piece
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  of my mind, and part of me always held a grudge against him
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  ever since, just for abandoning me at a party without telling
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  me. I haven't seen him in four years
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  now, however, and this was actually the first time I even
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  thought about this incident for almost a year now.
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  As time goes on, even the worst of memories may start to fade,
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  but after writing this to share with the Internet, it's once
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  again fresh in my mind.