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title: "What is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen while driving at night?"
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# What is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen while driving at night?

We asked our regular contributors through e-mail **What is the scariest thing you’ve ever seen while driving at night?** We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way.

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1. I used to deliver [pizza](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-amazing-facts-about-pizza/) and often had deliveries right at midnight when we closed. One time, late at night, I'm driving back to the store through a small neighborhood. Up ahead I see something. It's perfectly spherical bright/shiny... Thing, just hovering about 6 feet off the ground. Not moving at all.
I pull up very slowly. Still doesn't move. Still can't comprehend what I'm looking at. Just this shiny hovering orb in the road at midnight.

At this point, my curiosity has overridden my fear. I'm the guy in the horror movie who dies first because I just gotta know. Either I die or I get a cool story, right?

So I hop out of the car, and slowly walk up to it. I'm right in front of it and still can't understand what I'm seeing.

So I reach out and touch it.

It's a balloon.

One of those foil birthday balloons with the streetlights shining on it making it look weird out of context in the middle of the night on an empty road.

- warmyourbeans

2. A 6ft [kangaroo](https://www.kickassfacts.com/20-interesting-kangaroo-facts/) standing in the middle of a pitch-black road at 3 am in the morning missed it by a bee's dick.

- ready_4

3. I was on i70 in Colorado going towards Utah, pulled over at a gas station at 8 pm. Fueling up I noticed a couple of attractive women pumping gas, on the other side of the pump was the man in his late 40s, just staring at these young women without notice of anything else going on around him. I walk inside to go grab some food for the next few hours of driving, when I come out I see both the younger women's car and the older man's truck are gone. I decided to hang out at the gas station for the next hour to catch a little sleep before hitting the road again.
After driving for a few hours (I was speeding heavy) I pull over at yet another gas station, the young women are there getting gas and eating some food on a picnic table. Looked like they had been there for a while. I didn't see any sign of the man in the truck but can't say I was looking very hard for it. Well here is where it got creepy as hell...

Can't say I didn't stare at them a bit, I mean they were good looking women. As I am watching them leave I see in the next parking lot over some headlights turn on and it's the same man as before... He leaves when the women leave once again. Okay, that's a bit weird but could just be a coincidence as there weren't many places to pull over. I leave a few minutes later and catch up to them...now this guy is riding their ass with his high beams on.

I decided to slow down and stay a distance behind the truck. 10 minutes or so later the women pull over once again to most likely get this guy off their ass... With a sigh of relief, the truck keeps going and I continue on my way. About 1 mile down the road the guy just pulls off to the side of the highway... So I pull off a mile or so down the road again. Sure enough, the women drive by and the guy is still following them. At this point, we are out in the middle of nowhere and too many coincidences have happened. I called the cops to alert them and about 15 minutes the cops pulled the guy over.

I could have just seen too many horror movies that started like this and overreacted but ya never know. Better safe than sorry.

- Land_As_Exile

4. A dead, butchered horse laying in the road. Someone had completely skinned and butchered a [horse](https://www.kickassfacts.com/fascinating-horse-facts/), took the choice pieces of meat, and just dumped it on the highway. I almost crashed into it.

- Reapingday15

5. I slammed the brakes once because I saw a [deer](https://www.kickassfacts.com/deer-facts/) in my peripheral vision. Upon closer inspection, it was a mounted deer head on a stick in the middle of the woods. Slammed the gas after I realized that.

- payton_planet

![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/dark2.jpg)

6. I was driving on the expressway around 2 am and a semi hit a car and it went into the median. The car basically folded into itself and was beyond smashed. I can’t imagine that person survived. It was incredibly sad and terrifying to see.

- oceanof

7. I was driving home late one night and was driving on a dark stretch of the highway. Suddenly a body was in front of me, I tried to swerve out of the way but it was too late. My bumper was hanging on the ground.
The guy died. And I went to a nearby gas station not knowing what to do (was 18). When the tow truck pulled my car up on to it, there were a bunch of blood and guts on the bottom. I couldn't get that image out of my head

Apparently, a drunk driver with 5 DWI's had hit a guy on the motorcycle prior.

For years after I had serious depression and thought about it every night before sleep.

- sexycalamari1

8. A hitchhiker almost leaping out in front of my car on a dark forest road late at night. The woman literally popped out of nowhere. Had to drift into the oncoming lane. Luckily there was no one else and painted median there. Read a police report that she ended up getting hit minutes after I drove by. She was intoxicated and running from the police. Pretty creepy. I hope she's alright. I can't imagine what the driver that hit her was thinking.

- BotherSquidwardDay15

9. Driving to work at 4:30 am and seeing a cyclist with his head split open and brains on the road.

- Stevebertfan

10. While traveling east just outside Flagstaff, Arizona around midnight I was in the fast lane doing about 80mph. There was a bend in the road and you could see the headlights of the westbound lanes filter in-between the trees. It was funny because I thought the lights kinda looked like they were coming at me. Then they really were. I screamed obscenities and jerked the wheel just in time to let a speeding wrong way driver fly by me in the lane I was just in. After skidding to a stop in the shoulder I called the cops to report it.
"Could you describe the vehicle?"

"Yes, it was a dark blur with headlights"

- MegasXLRV

![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/shack.jpg)

11. A lonely abandoned shack with a bunch of arrows pointing to it. Saying come in!

- dontqustion

12. I don’t know if this is really scary, but it definitely freaked me out for a moment.
Driving home from grad lab for a couple of hours of [sleep](https://www.kickassfacts.com/40-mindblowing-sleep-facts/), about 4 in the morning (longish, time-sensitive experiment), not dawn yet, still pitch black. Turn a corner, and suddenly, someone runs into the street right in front of my [car](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-and-interesting-facts-about-cars/) and....stops. I stop.

I wait.

They don’t move.

Cautiously, I try to drive around.

They scream, run up and slam their hands on the hood of my car. With them so close, I realize they are totally naked and filthy.

They stare at me for a moment, then proceeds to run in wide circles, kinda listing to one side than the other, in front of my car.

After about two minutes of this, he lists hard to one side, far enough I felt safe quickly driving around them, very wide, on the other side that was now open.

Meth, man.

- Faithie_Ichiban

13. Frogs everywhere. Like hundreds of frogs all over the road.

- GrayOnline

14. I was following a grey Toyota Tundra in a massive blizzard through Montana on McDonald pass. He was going pretty quick most of the way but must have been unfamiliar with how steep the final few miles are. He got away from me as I slowed down to about 35. Not 5 min later I passed his tire marks in the fresh snow that went off the side of the mountain. Pulled over and looked down to see his truck upside down and on fire about 300 yards down.
Called 911. He didn’t die but was burnt up pretty bad. Sad and scary and don’t go 50 in the snow just because you have a truck or 4wd!!!

- r34lsessattack

15. Dad was driving at night, and I was looking out the window and saw two red pinpricks in the cornfield, and it followed us. I told my dad about it and he said, in the calmest, casual tone for this situation:
"Those are cornfield demons. Stay in the car and you'll be okay."

Cue me freaking the hell out when he got out of the car not too long after to check a tire before getting back in.

I'm still not sure if that was an actual thing or if he was using a situation to his advantage to teach me to not do anything stupid like that at night. Either way, it worked, and I STILL have no idea what those two pinpricks were.

- Pipermccloud

![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/dark3.jpg)

16. I was fetching someone from his workplace. Had to go through some fields, and some parts of the road were dark. I saw a thin, long object, wiggling at an upright position at the side of the road in front of me. Totally freaked me out. I thought I was finally experiencing something extraordinary. As I got closer I realized it was a tail of a [cow](https://www.kickassfacts.com/cow-facts/). It must've escaped from some field and was hanging around at the side of the road. The cow itself was black, the tail slightly lighter in color. That's why I only saw the tail moving first without seeing the whole cow first.

- runeofrose

17. I got off on my exit, and the whole road was covered in blood. I put on my brights and saw a bisected body of a large animal. It just made me so sad.

- hyacinths_

18. A closed Waffle House.

- Mook-tac

19. A body in the ditch. Thought it was a deer as I approached and then my brain was like "Deer don't wear boots". I was shaking as I did a U-turn to make sure the person was alive. They were, just drunk and some people stopped as well and emergency was called. I was so shaken up by it.

- sourkitty33

20. Killer Clown on the side of a deserted country road during the 2016 clown apocalypse. I think I cried.

- growing_youth

![](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/accident.jpg)

21. Someone I knew locally came across a jeep that had just crashed into the ditch on a highway at night, flipped on its top, wheels still turning kind of thing.
He was the first on scene so-called 911 and ran down into the ditch. The driver, who was badly mangled, had been tossed from the car and was dying. This guy held him and the driver died in his arms.

The weirdest part of it all was that he found out the next day that it was his cousin, but he hadn't been able to recognize him.

- Auto_Fac

22. I was a very young woman driving home after clubbing, about 2 am through Hollywood. I was pulling up to a stop sign on Cahuenga, about 3 blocks from Hollywood Blvd., when a bunch of guys begins to casually stroll onto the crosswalk, coming from both sides.
I hit the gas and ran the stop sign without even thinking. They cursed and ran after me, but those boys were ready to jack me. My instincts took over before I even realized what was happening.

- Peppa_D

23. I dropped my GF off the night we saw The Mothman Prophecies. It wasn't a super scary movie, but it had some scares. I take the interstate home. On the way, there is a curve where there aren't any lights. Just a dark stretch of interstate.
As I came around the bend, there was a guy in a black trench coat walking along the side of the road. As it was about 3 am, I guess I started him. So, when my headlights hit him, he whipped around and I swear he stared me right in the eyes.

My heart jumped into my throat. The whole event lasted maybe 2 seconds tops, but it had my heart racing. Not paranormal, but definitely scary for me.

- CryoClone

24. Driving down a 2 lane divided highway. I came up to a couple of semis and went into the left lane to pass. I did a shoulder check to get back into the right lane when I saw headlights in front of me.. in my lane. The car was going the wrong way.
I managed to swerve into the ditch, felt like I was mere centimeters from [death](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-death/). Thought my wife's scream would be the last thing I ever hear... And I never want to hear it again. The semis I passed all pulled to the shoulder to come to check on us. Didn't see the car anywhere... I think they just kept going.

Had to pull into a gas station after and collect myself.

- trplOG

25. Oh I’ve got the perfect thing.
Driving home one night from my fiancé’s house, a normal night on the Florida highway.

It’s pretty dark, not too many lights, cruising at around 75 headed over a slight hill, just big enough that you can’t see the other side.

Get to the top and start making my way down the hill, and very suddenly in my headlight view I get a giant construction vehicle with all of its lights TURNED OFF, AND PARKED IN THE LEFT LANE OF THE HIGHWAY.

I really, seriously, pray to God that no one hit that parked construction vehicle (it was one of the ones that dig up dirt I think?) on the highway that day. I very, VERY narrowly avoided smacking right into the back of that thing. I don’t know how the Cherokee I was driving at the time handled the sharp turn I made into the right lane to avoid the vehicle. Needless to say, I was very nearly dead.

Immediately called Florida highway patrol and told them about it. I hope they got to it before someone got hurt, and I REALLY hope someone at that construction company lost their job. Because they could have killed multiple people.

- ethancknight