5 True Creepy Driving at Night Stories for the Ride Home

A man driving back to Newcastle from Glasgow experienced a car breakdown near the English borders. Seeking help at a seemingly abandoned house, he encountered whispering figures who later set his car on fire and pursued him, forcing him to flee through fields.

After his 1982 Voxil Cavalier overheated and seized, the narrator walked towards a farmhouse. He saw candlelight upstairs despite the dilapidated state of the house, and after knocking, observed eyes peering from a curtain, followed by muted whispers and laughter. Upon returning to the road, he found his car engulfed in flames and was subsequently chased by a Land Rover, presumably carrying the squatters.

A woman driving alone late at night from Phoenix to LA was deliberately targeted by occupants of a blacked-out van with no license plates. After tailgating and then pacing her, a man in the van's rear swung open the doors and threw an engine block onto the freeway, aiming to cause a fatal crash.

The narrator noticed a blacked-out van with tinted windows and no police markings tailgating her aggressively. The van then pulled ahead, and a man in leathers with a bandana opened the rear doors, retrieved an object, and tossed it onto the freeway. The object, an engine block, smashed into her passenger-side windshield, causing her car to spin to a stop.

While a mother briefly entered a gas station, a stranger managed to open her locked car and give her six-year-old son a handmade 'Flying Plow Circus' keyring. The man claimed to know the child's father and later, the mother discovered a 'Flying Plow Circus' sign leading to a suspicious trailer encampment.

The mother left her son, James, in a locked car while getting coffee. Upon returning, James had a wooden keyring from a man who 'did something funny to the door' to open it. Later, while driving, she saw a sign for 'Flying Plow Circus' and found a circle of trailers with people gathered around a fire, who turned to watch her car.

A Texas bus driver on an overnight route experienced a passenger violently assaulting fellow travelers. The unprovoked beating was only stopped when a young man, described as a 'flawed hero', used an illegal gun to shoot the attacker, then fled the scene to avoid arrest.

During a Dallas-to-Austin route, a passenger began muttering, then escalated to a full-blown assault, beating another passenger unconscious. When others tried to intervene, he attacked them too. The driver pulled over, but the attacker charged him. A young man then shot the attacker in the belly, preventing further harm, but immediately fled, stating his gun was 'not legal'.

A Liverpool taxi driver in the 80s was held at gunpoint by a masked man who directed him to a pub. The man then shot someone leaving the pub, forcing the driver to flee. The assailant later made the driver abandon his taxi before dousing it with petrol and setting it on fire.

The driver picked up a passenger wearing a balaclava, holding a jerry can and a six-shooter. The passenger pointed the gun at him, ordering him to drive. They parked near a pub, and at 11 p.m., the masked man shot a person exiting the pub. The driver was then forced to drive to a derelict area, get out, and watch as his car was set ablaze before the shooter fled.