last November I turned off the highway into a two pump gas station in the middle of nowhere at around 1:30 in the morning I guess I was kind of zonked from how tired I was because as I drove my car up to the pump everything seemed as normal as could be my eyes were locked on the pump display as I filled my car up trying my best to not go a penny over 30 bucks so it was only when I walked over to the kiosk to pay that I noticed something was off the first thing that got my attention was how there was no one Manning this kiosk at first I just waited thinking the employee was just taking a quick bathroom break or something of that nature but then as I started to look around I realized the driver of the car at the pump in front of me was nowhere to be seen either they weren't in their car and they weren't inside the convenience store so my first thought was how the driver and the gas station attendant must have been both in the back of the store I guess I got this momentary chill thinking I might have interrupted a robbery or something and I was suddenly very hesitant to knock on the glass or call for service I remember turning to check out the car parked in front of me and thinking if it's Honda then I'm getting out of here but it looked to me like it was a 2011 3 Series now if you don't know cars Hondas are easy to steal BMWs on the other hand not so much and while that didn't completely preclude the possibility that there was a robbery in progress it reassured me enough that I started knocking on the glass and asking if there was anyone there I knocked once and then twice and then after the third time I knocked on the glass in as many minutes and it hit me that something highly unusual was clearly going on my first thought was to try the door to the convenience store I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be locked but when I pushed the door swung right open for me I walked up to the counter calling out hello the whole time and then thinking there might have been some kind of medical emergency I jumped the counter and took a look around the back of the store there was a bathroom in a storage room in a small office but all three were unlocked and empty then and only then did I realize that the entire gas station was completely deserted I checked around the back just to be sure but I figured that there'd be no one there and then once I was 100% sure some something seriously weird was going on I pulled out my phone and got ready to dial 911 I wasn't still 100% sure what to do so I called out hello again but much louder and when that got no response I called the cops I could tell that at first anyway that the dispatcher thought that I was just some jerk customer who was angry my gas station attendant wasn't there when I needed them but once I properly explained that there was literally no one to be found anywhere on the premises or or elsewhere she started to take my call a little more seriously she asked where I was and when I told her she asked if it looked like there had been a robbery I remember asking how the hell would I know but she explained that if there had been a robbery recently an employee might still be hiding somewhere and I felt this sort of twinge of frustration because like I said I looked probably everywhere except the dumpster around the side of the gas station and as I'm walking back from checking out the highway for signs of life I just so happened to be passing it as the thought to open it popped into my head I wanted to be able to say to the dispatcher there I even checked the station's dumpster there's definitely nobody here ma'am but when I opened the dumpster there they were I only caught a glimpse of what was inside before I dropped the lid of that dumpster and backed off like the thing was radioactive but a glimpse was enough for me there were two bodies in there all bent out of shape with dark all over their clothes and one of them was almost certainly wearing a gas station uniform I remember saying something like oh Jesus oh my God pacing away from the dumpster in a state of total shock with the dispatcher in my ear sir sir tell me what's going on sir and I told her they're in the dumpster Jesus [ __ ] Christ they're in the goddamn dumpster the cops arrived in about 10 to 15 minutes and by then I'd run off near to the highway to puke up all the contents of my stomach and I'd remembered that thing about preserving the Integrity of crime scenes so in a wild Panic I'd actually puked as I was running then had to hold puke in my mouth for a few seconds before I puked even more out near the highway and after that I just walked back and forth hitting my vape until I saw a cop car heading towards me down the highway and then after talking to one of the officers for a few minutes he told told me I was free to leave I looked the whole thing up online the first chance that I got later but although I found a bunch of stories about a member of the public Yours Truly finding some bodies at a gas station there was nothing that explained how or why those two people have been killed and never since I've always been extra careful while driving at night both in the sense that I keep a very close eye on my fuel gauge and try to avoid any nocturnal pit stops but also if a gas station looks a little too quiet I'll avoid it all together and just head to the next [Music] one I used to work nights at a gas station called North Star Mar out near a place called Foster in rural Virginia I used to drive up from gler get there at around 10: p. m. and then work all through the night until 6:00 a.
m. when my boss dude named Jud came over to relieve me Jud lived right next door to the gas station in a big old house that he claimed that he built himself there was no way that he built that whole thing on his own but he was far too nice for me to call him out on it so I just let it be he was a great boss too I mean that from the bottom of my heart not many folks can say that they had a boss who had done almost anything to keep him safe but I can and it makes me feel a little guilty sometimes that I don't head up there to visit them more but I don't like driving around Foster anymore I don't like going anywhere near the place and by the end of the story I think you're going to understand why I worked at the North Star for 9 months and 3 weeks working anything from 2 to five nights a week depending on how busy I was at school not a single customer and all the time I work there ever gave me a single ounce of trouble it was one of the best jobs I ever had in that respect it was always a little busier on week weekends but during week nights I'd sometimes serve only two or three customers a night and spend the rest of my time watching movies on my iPod back when that was like a revolutionary thing to do Jud was really chill like that he didn't give me a bunch of cleaning tasks and he didn't give me any busy work at all actually and he only ever had one rule if anyone ever showed up late at night acting weird in any way I was to call him right away it didn't matter if the call woke him and his wife up from the sweet sweetest dreams theyd ever had if anyone was acting sketch Jud wanted to know about it I figured that was fair enough the gas station was jud's whole life it was his retirement plan so if it went up in Flames well you see where I'm going with this so even though it felt slightly emasculating as in I felt like I could take care of the station myself I agreed to give Jud a call every time there was any disturbances when he first told me about his little Golden Rule I'd be lying if I said that it didn't make me a little nervous I guess it suggested that there were a lot of weird people who came by the gas station at night but that couldn't have been further from the truth like I said nine whole months and not a single instance of weird or Disturbing Behavior and then one night it happened I was in the back office one night splitting my attention between security monitors and the copy of The Dark Knight Rises when I suddenly saw a lone figure approaching the gas station we had three cameras one facing the pumps one facing the approach to the store and a third which allowed me to watch the inside of the store from the back office I can see the guy walking towards the store past the pumps and then into the view of the second camera but then instead of walking into the store like literally everybody else he stops dead outside the door he's right in the view of the second camera so I'm looking at the sky fairly close up and he looked like a perfectly regular rural Virginia dad type he looked like he had work boots on some faded jeans and a baseball cap with some kind of hunting or fishing logo on it literally the most unremarkable looking guy that could ever walk through our door but his behavior most definitely got my attention I guess it's not entirely true that nothing weird ever happened because there was one previous occasion where I called Jud in the middle of the night some crazy lady was screaming like a demon out near the pumps it was a Saturday and had to be maybe 4: to 4:30 in the morning but just like Jud said I gave him a call at his house I told him about the lady and how her screaming was freaking me out he ask for a description I gave him one and then he tells me oh that's just Ronda lick hered up on payday she'll head home once she's tired herself out and then you know what she did she eventually stopped screaming and then just kind of walked off like she was done with that night's performance anyway the guy in the Sporting Goods cap stopped dead and just stood there in front of the camera not moving a muscle not nearly as freaky as screaming like a banshee but still weird nonetheless I figured he was I don't know taking a moment to think or something but then as I'm watching him his head starts slowly moving turning his neck until he's staring into the camera lens I know it was just an illusion but it felt like it was staring directly at me and that was easily one of the most unnerving Sensations I've ever experienced once the guy's Behavior reached a concerning level of weird I grabbed the phone and called Jud I didn't even feel emasculated doing it either whatever that guy's problem was it wasn't meth it was something way scarier than that Jud picked up the phone then once again he asked me to describe the person acting weird I started describing the guy and then the next thing Jud slams the phone down I look back at the screen and the guy's disappeared from view but he's not in the store either something I'm where the hell is he gone but at the same time I'm also thinking why did Judge just slam that phone down on me he told me to call him if something weird started to happen and the first time he sounded sleepy but pretty calm so I was wondering what was so different about that time when I suddenly see him on the monitors Jud was running towards the gas station and nothing but with his boxer shorts and a wife beater and he was carrying a shotgun in his hands he burst into the store and asked me where he is then when I say the guy just disappeared and that I think he just walked off Jud runs past me into the office to check the monitors I'm freaking out too because what the hell is he carrying that shotgun for but no matter how many times I asked him what's going on he kept silencing me and telling me that I needed to concentrate as he ran back to the security footage to get a look at the guy's face I watched him rewinding the footage until he finally found what he was looking for and when he did I watched Jud turned completely pale whoever it was Jud was terrified of him so terrified that he felt the need to come running over with a shotgun to protect me and then that scared the hell out of me too Jud sent me home that night after calling the cops and the next day he called to say that he'd understand if I didn't want to come back to work I asked just one time if he could tell me who the man was and Jud paused and then repeated the part about understanding if I didn't want to come back I thanked him for the job wished him luck and then just hung up like I said earlier I still feel guilty about not going up to see him more he was a great guy and a great boss but without knowing who that guy was without knowing why Jud was so scared of him I couldn't put myself in the position of working for for him anymore I didn't want to die for some stupid gas station job no matter how cool my boss was and if there was a guy out there who scared the hell out of one of the toughest sons of [ __ ] I'd ever known then what chance in hell did I have my mom used to work the nice shifted a gas station in the early '90s this is one of those mom and pop gas stations so typically there was only about one person working the station at a time during the night of the story my mom schedule had overlapped with one of her co-workers for 2 hours because there had apparently been an armed robbery in the same area the night before so the owner was a bit concerned about being the next Target of the robbers after about 2 hours my mom's coworker leaves about a half hour later there was a golf girl that comes into the station and buys a p of cigarettes the girl is fidgety but polite my mom tells the girl to have a good night then begins to clean the hot dog case as my Mom starts cleaning she notices that the girl doesn't leave the station the girl then starts walking around for about 5 minutes just looking at random items in the shelves my Mom finally stops what she's doing and she then asks the girl if she needs anything the girl goes up to the counter and tells my mom that her car ran out of gas just up the street so she needs to get some gas the girl doesn't have a gas can so my mom grabs one of the gas cans from behind the counter and then tells the girl the price of the can the girl then says that she doesn't have enough money for the can mind you she literally just bought a pack of cigarettes my mom kind of wears her heart on her sleeve more than she wants to sometimes so she tells the girl that she'll buy the gas can for her the girl then smiles and thanks my mom my mom lets the girl know that she doesn't have enough money to buy gas for herself let alone for somebody else the girl seems to accept this and then thanks my mom profusely goth girl says she has someone she can call who will stop by the station and give her some gas money my mom then asks if she has enough change for the pay phone and the girl says yes she thanked my mom yet again for the gas can then leaves my mom is really good at reading people and while the goth girls seem polite there's something about the whole situation that was really giving my mom bad vibes my mom looks at the surveillance footage that gives an outside view of the Station instead of walking to the pay phone which is just left of the front door the girl starts walking to a van that's parked really close to the station's exit the girl then walks up to the passenger side of the van and she starts talking to someone who's inside the van she points a few times at the station while my mom is secretly praying she's not about to be robbed the conversation between goth girl and whoever was in the van only lasts about a minute or two and my mom just watches as the goth girl starts walking right back to the station the goth girl comes back to the station and she tells my mom that she had got some gas money from her uncle but that when she tried pumping gas she had some trouble with the handle of the gas pump mind you the the gas pumps of the station are literally your basic no thrills pumps the girl then asked my mom if she could come outside and help her my mom pretends to be C but she then starts to panic on the inside she then tells the girl that she can't leave the station so she asked the girl to try another pump the girl says she tried them all but she just can't figure out how they work she asks again if my mom would come outside and just show her how one of the station's pumps work my mom apologizes and she then explains that she's not able to leave the station unattended or she'll be fired she tells the girl that there's a gas station just a block up the street and that they always have multiple employees on staff so she should be able to get someone to help her over there the girl starts to whine and she starts to let out this really eerie sort of snarl she then gives the fakest big smile she can muster and tells my mom that she'll only be gone for a minute and that she really needs my mom's help now when she said that she really needed her help her teeth were clenched and she started stomping up and down like a pouting toddler goth girl then starts breathing excitedly like she's a rabbit animal or something at this point my mom then drops all pretenses of being nice gives the girl what she calls her cold [ __ ] smile and then says so by the way I saw you talking with your friends outside and I already called the cops and gave them your friend's license plate number they should be here in just a minute they're so fast in this town my mom was of course bluffing and luckily for her the girl seems to believe her goth girl quickly leaves the store gets inside the van and right before she can fully shut the side door the van is then peeling right out of the parking lot my mom did wind up calling the police later on and then gave a general description of the van and girl it didn't take too long for the police to find the van it had apparently been abandoned on the side of the road near a wooded area the girl and her friends had used Hammers and box cutters to destroy the van's interior the police didn't know what the girl and her friends had planned to do to my mom but they said whatever it was it probably wasn't even robbery my mom wound up turning in her 2E notice shortly after this happened my mom's advice to anyone listening to this story is to always always trust your G instincts they just might save your life one [Music] day so this was earlier this year I moved to a different town and was finally settled into my new place it was the night before Christmas and family was coming by early that morning so I spent the evening cleaning and prepping for the next day all was well I was in High Spirits and crawled into bed it was the first time that I was hosting Christmas so I was a bit too anxious and giddy to fall asleep I knew that I should sleep soon but I was just wide awake so I played on my phone a bit and just passed the time it was about maybe 10 p. m.
