I Work At A Truck Stop That Must Be Haunted

I worked in the truck stop industry for about 15 years all of the following stories took place at the same location I worked there less than 18 months if people are interested I have other stories at other locations but this one had the most frequent occurrence of weird stuff that happened I was given the opportunity to help open this brand new location and since it came with a fat raise and to promotion I definitely accepted it now has been about 5 years since the location opened I don't believe there is a single employee left that

was there when we opened of the over 60 employees we hired prior to opening day on opening day not long after the ribbon cutting ceremony a woman delivering flowers dropped the flowers on her sandal foot and sliced her foot open bleeding all over the entrance within a week of being open we had water and sewage coming up through all the drains including sewage ones outside all over the property it had not been raining it wasn't like a flood situation weatherwise we have no idea what caused it to suddenly happen and just as quickly as it

happened it went away plumbers were baffled a couple of months after we opened we faced a severe storm that destroyed the high-rise Interstate sign and caused a 7-hour power outage I had sent several people home but I had kept a couple of employees in case the power came back as we sat in the restaurant dining room chatting under electric lantern light an employee who was a local resident and had lived in the town all of her life mentioned that people were a little worried when this place was announced to be built because this property had

been rumored to been a Native American in burial ground for years I have zero way to prove or disprove if that is accurate but given the events getting more serious as time went on it makes you wonder when the power did come back despite several steps I took like unplugging all the equipment to make sure the surge wouldn't fry stuff we'd lost several pieces of expensive equipment some of this equipment was critical and caused major operational problems for weeks until it could be replaced the first winter after we opened was the coldest in years so

cold that we had to buy space heaters for the servers in the electrical room so the servers wouldn't freeze we had issues with frozen pipes especially in the truck Care Center in the restaurant 6 months after opening was the first death a truck driver came in to take a shower in one of the shower rooms rooms and we had sensors on the doors that let us know how long someone had been in there if the timer had been going for a couple hours we would knock on the door to see if maybe they had actually

left so we could clean it for the next driver the employee knocked on the door of a shower that had been in use for a couple hours and there wasn't an answer she used the key to open the door and the driver was on the floor he had died of a stroke he had been driving a semi-truck 30 minutes before he entered that room the employee who had opened the door was significantly traumatized the company did a great job of offering support for her but she didn't last much longer after that a few weeks later

was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen I was working on the restaurant side of the truck stop as the restaurant manager had quit after a series of bad things that happened to her and they asked me to move me into the rooll temporarily the assistant manager on the store side came over because the freakiest thing had just happened she pulls me into the stor side office and pulls up the cameras to show me what happened a small four-door sedan pulls into the lot but doesn't pull into the gas station side pulls into the

truck stop side where the semi- trucks pull in he parks next to the maintenance shed which which is located adjacent to the main building and very close to a large trash compactor he gets out of the vehicle opens one of the doors and pulls out a trash bag he throws the trash bag on top of the compactor he then gets in his car and leaves the property I don't remember exactly how long as she had fast forwarded the footage but I think it was an hour or two later he returned he pulls back next to

the compactor climbs on top of the compactor and Chucks the bag onto the roof of the maintenance shed he then climbs down off of the compactor gets in his car and leaves never to return this is when he was noticed by an employee who had been outside Gathering trash to take to the compactor the maintenance shed is more of a small building or garage it's about 20 ft by 20 ft if the employee we had not seen him throw it up there it probably wouldn't have been noticed maybe ever as the building was as high

as a one-story building once the employee saw the individual leave he goes into the shed gets a ladder and goes to get the bag on top of the roof of the shed he brought the bag inside the store to show the assistant manager inside the bag is a ton of paper these documents list hundreds and thousands of addresses across the United States under each address is a specific hidden location on each property where a body could be found no information on who the individuals were just sex and location of the individual or individuals on these

properties the locations spanned from coast to coast but I didn't get a chance to look too deeply into them I was really freaked out and I thought that touching them would maybe contaminate something so we just put what we had pulled out back in the bag the obvious answer here was to call the police so that is what happened next now the thing about truck stops is that they are more often than not in remote locations along interstates for obvious reasons the town this truck stop is located in has three police officers total it is

a town with less than 1,000 people so when I say the chief of police showed up it's because he was the highest ranking officer of three in the town he hated us as truck stops bring Crime and suddenly he had a lot more work to do he comes in and watches the footage and looks in the bag and the most frustrating thing here is that he was not concerned in the slightest he asked what we wanted him to do about it it was probably a prank Etc he took the items with him filled out a

form for request for the footage and left left my hope here is that he at least forwarded this to the FBI a couple of weeks after this there was a body found of a bound nude and recently deceased man across the street at a dump because it was a dump they had no idea where the individual had originated from sometime in following weeks was the second death on the property it was a driver that had died in his truck somewhere in the middle of this we had another severe storm and the interstate highrise was destroyed

again we had another weird incident involving abandoned things but this one had a resolution a driver came in to show us that someone had left ratchet straps and small children clothing folded up neatly next to a diesel pump the combination of the items was alarming for me so I got on the camera system and called the police I was able to find the truck that left the items and luckily I got the one amazing police officer in the town this time she actually did her job and followed up with me to let me know that

she had found the driver and called him he had his kid in the truck for a while for summer break but it had ended so had brought her home with her mom and wasn't going to see his kid for a while so when cleaning out his truck he had this clothing and some straps he didn't need and thought someone else could use the items he did didn't think about the combination of the two raising eyebrows and he honestly was really grateful that somebody would be worried and follow up in case a couple months after the

first year mark the state do had to shut down the off-on ramp to the interstate as the exit started to collapse and they were worried that the overpass would collapse as well we had nearly zero business for weeks as construction Crews rebuilt the ramps and repaired the overpass it was during this time that I earned a promotion to a general manager role and was moved to a different location I kept in touch for a while especially with my former boss and the assistant manager the incidences continued couple months after I left there were two major

incidents but I cannot remember which came first one was involving an individual that entered the building with a machine Ste he was aggressive the employees were terrified I wish I hadn't deleted it but there is footage of state troopers coming in with AKs and drop kicking the guy unsure where this person came from as he walked and this location was 10 to 15 miles from the nearest town the second was a customer attacked a teenage cashier because he didn't get the customer's lotto ticket correct and got into a brawl with the maintenance guy who came

to the kidss defense slowly over time I lost touch with them and they both left the location so I stopped getting the stories I don't know if they are continuing haunted portal to hell I don't know but what I do know is now I avoid truck stops like the plague this happened to me about 11 years ago when walking home from a friend's house at night I'll just get straight into it I used to live in a rural part of the UK and have lived in rural areas most of my life so I was used

to long walks occasionally at night especially before I could drive they never bothered me too much I'd get creeped out occasionally but this one night was the most terrifying experience I ever had and there was this one friend who used to live roughly 3 miles away from my house he had cool parents my other friends and I would often go over to his house and play video games and hang out occasionally this meant walking home at night if I stayed late there were two ways back from his house the roadway which was about 5 m

long and it took about 30 to 45 minutes the roads were very quiet and Eerie sometimes but they were lit by Street lamps so it never bothered me walking this way the other way was a shortcut through some Woods which took off about 2 mi and the wooded bit was about a mile or so long I often favored the wooded shortcut and have probably walked it over 100 times the woods were dark however combined with the lack of ambient light due to living in a rural area and you had absolute Abyssal Darkness luckily most of

the time I had my phone light to walk with but sometimes my phone would die or the battery would be so low The Flash wouldn't work and I'd have to use my screen light as you've probably guessed by now this was one of those occasions I remember my friends and I had just finished watching a film it was nearing 1: p.m. so we all left my friend's house and headed our separate ways home I contemplated briefly which way I should go and decided to take these shortcut through the woods I started walking away from his

house and towards the path that headed into the woods the street lights dimmed as I entered the fields before the woods I glanced at my phone and saw my battery was really low only enough power left for a couple of minutes of Flash and then I'd have to use my screen for light that wouldn't last pass the wholeway either as I saw the tree line approaching I switched on the flash and followed the well trodden path into the dark to my dismay my light died within seconds of entering and I flipped my phone over to

try and Shine the way using the screen as I walked I looked out for all of the familiar landmarks I was used to seeing to ensure I was heading in the right direction funky tree stump check half Fallen fur tree check enormous puddle I had to jump over and check all was going well I was halfway through the woods when my phone completely died I remember the moment it happened I was engulfed in darkness I'm not sure if you've experienced this level of darkness before but it was so dark I couldn't even see the outline

of my hand cenm in front of my face naturally my pace slowed considerably and I started holding my hand out in front of me to make sure I wasn't going to walk into a tree or something I continued walking for another minute or so until all of a sudden a pungent smell hit me cigarette smoke I glanced around but couldn't see anything then I heard it a cough I wasn't alone thoughts raced through my head who would be out in the woods in the dark are they following me am I lost I quickened my Pace

again throwing a little CAU to the wind I carried on walking and tripped slightly on a branch as I regained my balance I heard another sound branches breaking underfoot what sounded like right behind me the snapping turned into fast footsteps That Grew louder and louder I started sprinting I felt the well-trodden path turn to brush I felt branches logs and plants hitting my legs it wasn't long before I fell hard I was lying on the floor holding my knee I could still hear branches snapping around me and a voice muttering to something I didn't dare

move then all of a sudden they turned on a torch I couldn't see anything except for the beam of Light which seemed to be eaten quickly by the darkness of the forest I lay motionless on on the ground as the beam swept through the trees I could still hear the person mumbling a deep growl the crunching of footfalls grew and grew they were only several feet from me by this point I couldn't breathe the light went out the snapping of branches grew and then nothing quiet my eyes were wide open but I couldn't see anything

then I could hear wheezing right above above me I wanted to cry I wasn't sure if the person could see me or not they could have been staring right at me and I wouldn't know this carried on for about 5 minutes until the crunching of leaves and snapping of Twigs started up again and got fainter and fainter as they moved away from me I remained lying down for another 5 or 10 minutes contemplating my Escape like an idiot I'd ran off the path and wasn't sure which way was back to it or was home I

didn't really care I thought I was going to walk in One Direction until I left the woods and get home from there I knew as soon as I started moving again if the person was still in the woods they would hear me should I run or try and sneak out I opted for the ladder I slowly Rose to my feet listening constantly to my surroundings picked a direction and started walking I wasn't perfectly quiet but quiet enough to be sure I wouldn't be heard from too far away I kept hearing snapping sounds and rustling in

the distance and every time I froze I'd hold my breath until I was happy no one was there and then start walking again I repeated this pattern for what felt like an eternity until eventually I found the path I sced screamed for joy in my mind and sped up my pays after another 10 minutes I saw it Light street lights filtering in through the trees I'd never been so happy to see a meager Street Lamp but as I progressed to the end of the woods my heart sank at the end of the path was a

black silhouette unmoving contrasted against the light background was the dark figure of a man what should I do maybe it's a different person perhaps it's someone walking their dog I froze and watched them silently but they didn't move at all they just stood there like they were guarding the entrance to the woods I didn't know what to do by this point I'd had enough I was so close to getting out I decided to just run straight towards the exit straight towards them I was a 6-t young man if they wanted to stop me they'd have

a hard job of it I thought so that's what I did I started sprinting the figure grew and grew and as I reached them I stepped to the side I heard someone growl loudly and felt something clip the back of my head and tug the back of my jacket I cleared the Sheep gate in one Leap and sprinted into the light I eventually stopped running when I could see the first house and looked back the entrance to the woods was was quite far away now and I couldn't see anyone standing by the entrance relaxing a

bit more now I finished my walk home that's pretty much it I know I could have overreacted it could have been someone out for a walk in the woods a dog walker or camper but what I thought was strange was that they didn't use their torch except briefly on one occasion once they heard me they also actively sought me out who knows what would have happened if they caught me in any case I never walk that way home alone again not at night anyway [Music]