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Surviving the Unknown on a Dark Night - 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
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  I 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 without
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  me. I asked to use the party host's
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  phone and dialed Alex's home number.
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  After two tries, I gave up and then realized I shouldn't wake
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  his family up. So, literally not knowing what
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  else to do, I dizzily stepped out onto the road and began
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  walking back home. I knew this walk would take
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  anywhere from half an hour to an hour in my condition.
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  Maybe after 15 minutes of walking down the road, the
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  slight shine of car headlights on the road was fading in from
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  behind me and jumping for joy inside.
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  I lifted up my arm and stuck out my thumb.
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  As the car neared, it slowed down and came to a stop right
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  next to me. The man driving the 98 Ford
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  Explorer rolled down the window and asked where you headed.
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  I told him my house was just down the road and beyond a right
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  turn. Probably slurring my words
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  beyond comprehension, he chuckled and told me to hop in.
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  I thanked him and joyously hopped into the truck.
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  I was exhausted and I remember completely disregarding things
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  the guy was asking me because I was so close to just passing
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  out. And that's what happened.
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  The memories of being in that truck turned to a fog as I'm
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  sure I passed out. The next thing I remember, I
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  woke up still in the moving truck.
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  The guy looked at me and laughed but didn't say anything.
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  I looked around and realized the road we were on wasn't familiar.
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  I nervously asked. Where are we going?
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  He then said. So what were you doing out this
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  late anyway? As the man answered my very
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  straightforward question with another irrelevant question, the
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  sobering reality of the situation hit me.
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  You can, you can let me out anywhere, I told the man.
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  The man responded with a firm no, I felt like throwing up as
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  he said that no, I really actually felt like I was going
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  to throw up. I started to gag as I felt more
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  and more nauseous. By the 2nd.
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  The man took his eyes off the road to look at me and that's
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  when I thought of the perfect distraction.
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  I turned in his direction as I continued to gag and he started
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  to kind of lean away and slow down the car.
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  Thankfully I drank as much as I did because I finally threw up
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  and made a point of doing it all over the man's lap.
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  The man yelled in frustration and stopped the car, and that's
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  when I took it upon myself to run for my life into the woods
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  and duck behind a few bushes. The man came following into the
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  woods with a flashlight and on 2 separate occasions he shined the
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  light straight over me without noticing.
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  Eventually I heard his footsteps walk even further into the woods
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  past me. That was when I ran back to his
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  truck, but unfortunately he was smart enough to lock it.
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  By some miracle, I saw another car approaching in the distance
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  and I ran out into the middle of the street, waving my arms like
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  a lunatic. The car tried to avoid me, but I
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  wouldn't let it. They were forced to stop and I
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  yelled at them to help me before they came back.
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  Once I told them that I was kidnapped by the man who was
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  driving that Ford Explorer, the driver agreed to give me a lift,
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  not to the police station or anything, but to my house.
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  I made it back safely where I couldn't thank the driver
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  enough. I immediately woke up my parents
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  and told them my dad wanted to know if I got his tag number and
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  then I felt like punching myself in the face.
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  I failed to get the simplest information from the guy that
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  would have allowed me to actually properly report him.
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  All I knew was that he drove a faded blue 99 Ford Explorer.
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  I made sure to give Alex a piece of my mind, and part of me
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  always held a grudge against him ever since, just for abandoning
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  me at a party without telling me.
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  I haven't seen him in four years now, however, and this was
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  actually the first time I even thought about this incident for
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  almost a year now. As time goes on, even the worst
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  of memories may start to fade, but after writing this to share
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  with the Internet, it's once again fresh in my mind.