These three true rest stop horror stories are based on real events: a phantom warning on a lonely interstate, terrifying screams from an empty bathroom stall, and a chilling watcher in the deep woods.

There are places on the road that exist between destinations. Places of flickering lights and deep shadows, where the hum of your engine is the only thing keeping the darkness at bay. For the unfortunate souls in these tales, a simple stop for rest became a descent into unspeakable horror. We present three accounts from the asphalt abyss.

First, you will meet a trucker on a lonely stretch of I-70. To escape a bone-deep exhaustion, he pulls over for a strange young woman who looks impossibly like his own daughter. But this is no chance encounter. It is a chilling paranormal message delivered by a vanishing passenger, a glitching dashcam, and a photograph from a time long since passed. It is a supernatural horror story where the real fear begins only after the ghost is gone.

Next, you will travel to a forgotten rest stop in the oppressive Texas heat, where a family makes a quick stop. From inside a locked bathroom stall, a woman's terrified screams rip through the silence before being cut off abruptly. When the door is finally opened, the stall is pristine and empty. But a closer look reveals a desperate, silent testament to a previous horror: deep, frantic claw marks and two words scratched into the metal... "HELP ME."

Finally, journey to a brightly lit New Jersey rest stop, a supposed island of safety in the dead of night. A trucker witnesses a hunched figure at the edge of the woods, struggling with a heavy, dark bundle. But when the figure turns, it is not a man. It is something with flat, cold eyes that glow with a burning red light, an encounter with real evil hiding just beyond the reach of the light.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Story One: The Phantom on I-70

09:12 - Story Two: The Screaming Stall

17:45 - Story Three: The Watcher on Clinton Road

From The Shadowteller:

Which of these roadside horrors will linger in your mind? What do you believe was truly happening in that locked bathroom stall? Leave your theories in the darkness of the comments below.

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