Road or highway
Two floating featureless figures on a Colorado mountain road
[name withheld], calling from St. Louis, Missouri, tells Art Bell about a nighttime drive they say they took in the mid-1980s while living in Colorado Springs. The caller says they and their girlfriend parked on a dark mountain road above town and saw two black, featureless head-and-torso figures floating silently and rapidly toward them. They fled by car. [name withheld] says their girlfriend later gave a matching account and added that the figures were nearly upon them as they drove off.
Woman in a white dress pursues a car on Monterey Highway, 1951
A caller named [name withheld], from Los Banos, California, relays a story they say their father told them about their father's cousin [name withheld]. According to [name withheld], in 1951 [name withheld] was driving north from a movie theater in Morgan Hill toward San Jose on a stretch of the Monterey Highway known as “Blood Alley.” A woman in a white dress at the roadside kept pace with the accelerating car and then appeared at the window as a skeletal face. [name withheld] says [name withheld] braked, prayed, and drove back to [name withheld]'s mother's house instead.
A figure dancing on a fence post on a country road in northern Alberta
Art Bell reads a letter from a listener named [name withheld]. It describes a walk home along a country road in northern Alberta about fifteen years earlier. [name withheld] writes that they and their friend [name withheld] saw a thin, emaciated human form standing on a roadside post, slowly dancing. Months later, [name withheld] was diagnosed with cancer and died. [name withheld] concluded that the figure had been [name withheld] himself.
White-haired woman with a white dog beside a desert road
A caller named [name withheld], from Salt Lake, tells Art Bell a story dated to 1981. [name withheld] says they and four friends were driving home from a California graduation trip. On a desolate desert road outside Palm Springs, they saw a white-haired woman in white holding a white dog on a chain. The woman’s dress and hair blew without wind, and her head turned unnaturally far to follow their car. The friends reportedly felt a horrible feeling and still discuss the encounter years later.
A caped figure, a skeleton, and two strangers at Redondo Beach
A truck driver who calls themselves [name withheld], phoning from a truck stop in Milan, New Mexico, tells Art Bell a story they date to the late 1970s at Redondo Beach, California. The caller says they and their girlfriend chased a fast-moving black cape-like figure on their motorcycle at dusk. It turned and looked like a skeleton. When it vanished around the corner of a building, two oddly dressed strangers were suddenly standing there. One of them grabbed their girlfriend’s hands and repeated a warning. The caller ends by passing on a friend’s opinion that they had met something supernatural. The host calls it not easily explained.
Figure and hearse at “Sleepy Hollow” in Brea, and a car crash afterward
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], in Flagstaff, tells of a night in 1962, the summer after their high school graduation. The caller and a friend drove the caller’s first car to a spot in Brea, California, that the friend called “Sleepy Hollow.” The caller reports that their headlights lit a parked 1939 Cadillac hearse and a figure the caller compares to the Phantom of the Opera. When the two drove back minutes later, both were gone, with no tracks left behind. Shortly afterward, the caller says, their car flipped over three times on Brea Canyon Boulevard. The caller offers to send the host signed affidavits, and the story ends with the host’s remarks about it being a warning.
Injured, one-legged figure with a lantern on Roberts Road
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Chicago, tells Art Bell that about eleven years earlier they and a friend were driving home from a party at around 3 a.m. They saw a man standing by the curb with a lantern on Roberts Road. The caller says the figure stepped in front of the car and walked toward them, looking injured and see-through, with a missing leg. The caller says a following car drove right through the figure as it walked toward a cemetery. The caller says they and their friend both saw it, that they called Justice Police and later [name withheld], and that the experience unsettled them for about a year.
Tall shadow figure in woods linked by caller to neighbors’ candles
[name withheld], calling from Atlanta, Georgia, tells Art Bell a story they say began years earlier at their own house. It involves their wife and the neighbors of her ex-husband, who they say were practicing an occult tradition. The caller reports orbs and nighttime footsteps on the nights the neighbors’ candles were lit. Then came a bang on the roof and a large shadowy figure in the woods across the street. The caller and their wife finally watched it run into the light and seem to vanish, while its footsteps stayed audible. The story ends with the caller praying over the property and the activity stopping. Art comments that people who dabble in such things live to regret it.
Whistling to call ghosts at Spouting Horn, Kauai; a cousin held down
A caller who says they are originally from Hawaii and are listening to the show on 105.1 in Las Vegas describes a night in the early 1970s on Kauai. The caller and four others drove to Spouting Horn, whistled to call ghosts, and played a prank on a cousin by driving off and leaving him. The caller reports seeing the cousin crouching. When they returned, they heard Hawaiian chanting with no instruments. They found the cousin crying, and the caller’s brother could not lift him. The cousin later said something held him down. The host cuts the call off for time. The caller adds that their grandmother saw a spirit behind the cousin and that he still wears something she gave him.
A hearse, a voice, and white figures on a winter road in northern Canada
A caller who gives their first name as [name withheld] tells of something the caller says happened to them in high school, when they were 16 or 17, in a small town in northern Canada. The caller was walking alone at night on a snowy road after their friends drove off. The caller reports a panicky feeling, a big black car the caller took for a hearse, a voice quietly saying their name from behind them, and two white figures that moved toward them while calling their name. Then they ran into town. The caller ends by reporting that their friends said they had each felt that [quote withheld] and had turned the car around for them. The host thanks the caller and moves to the next caller.
Teen dream of a house and pasture, later found ruined near St. Louis airport
A caller who gives no name or location says that in their teens they had two dreams in one night. The first showed an idyllic road with grazing livestock and an old house; the second showed the same road with dead animals and an axe attack. About six months later, the caller says, they and two companions found a ruined house off a driveway near the St. Louis airport, felt a presence, and fled when their Jeep would not start. The caller ends by saying that over the years, the only explanation they and their cousin agreed on was an economic one.
Hooded figure with sickle in Golden Gate Park before a friend’s motorcycle death
[name withheld], who gives their name on KSFO in San Francisco, tells Art Bell that as a teenager they and a friend were riding bikes in Golden Gate Park in an area called Dark Valley. A hooded, caped figure with a sickle stepped out of the darkness and raised an arm, and the cape touched them as they passed. They say that within that week their best friend, not the friend on the bike, died in a motorcycle crash near the beach. The host suggests the figure may have been the Grim Reaper, and the caller ends by warning against Ouija boards.
63 more stories
- Sudden pain coinciding with a young friend’s fatal truck accident4 min
- Two lightning bolts cross a truck after a driver asks for a sign3 min
- Pursuit on a Nevada highway, a flat tire at an isolated house later found boarded3 min
- Caller reports seeing husband in a passing car before learning of his death3 min
- College radio expedition to a reservoir reports a woman in white on the road3 min
- Pale, unresponsive hitchhiker figure on Piper's Gap Road4 min
- Man in a black robe at a remote mountain campsite2 min
- Recurring dream of a jeep on a desert hill, then a matching real road3 min
- A man in a checkered suit lying on a Santa Cruz Mountains road2 min
- Cyclist reports seeing their dead riding partner on the road at night2 min
- Vanishing woman in a long gingham dress on a Georgia country road3 min
- A child's voice and figure in a Las Vegas family home4 min
- Ghost tracks and a truck pushed over a San Antonio rail crossing5 min
- Woman in a green glow at a bridge near a lynching site in Claxton, Georgia4 min
- Colorado officer meets the same roadside man twice, then the man vanishes2 min
- Gray figures circling and red eyes in Genesee Park at the summer solstice4 min
- Shadowy figure bows silently, then a phone call confirms a grandfather’s death4 min
- Figures in a field, a shrinking shape, and a child’s face in a drain pipe7 min
- Car dies on the Mass Turnpike and restarts after a plea to the caller's late father3 min
- Scent of carnations in a van on Highway 99 after a grandmother's death4 min
- Police officer reports a man and dog who vanished on a foggy road near an old homestead3 min
- Walking boots without a body on a logging road near Knoxville3 min
- Faceless woman in period clothing walking on a snowy road near Yellowstone3 min
- A girl named [name withheld] who vanished in a Denton, Texas graveyard7 min
- Letter: A father hears a moan at the time of his mother-in-law's death2 min
- Faceless green caped figure in the left lane on a night drive to Peoria2 min
- Highway spin-out and a figure seen in the rearview mirror2 min
- Handprints on the front of a car that stopped before a cliff28 s
- Caller describes seeing themselves from the corner of their ICU room after flatlining2 min
- Caller relays friend's story of a black semi-human figure on a bike trail2 min
- Vanishing shack and field of Corvairs near a suspected haunted house8 min
- Deceased neighbor’s voice and rose scent reported to warn caller twice4 min
- Footsteps and wet footprints in a Route 66 service station2 min
- Driver reports hitting an elderly man and dog on a road outside Chicago5 min
- Woman in white waving arms on an Arizona highway, then a crashed car5 min
- Black car, red window light, and a note in an orchard5 min
- Agnostic caller’s near-death experience and beings they call alien-like7 min
- Dream of an emaciated creature as a message from a deceased grandmother3 min
- Shadow figure behind a sapling and streetlights going out on a drive home4 min
- Border Patrol trainees and a robed group around a bonfire near the Rio Grande7 min
- Two men who asked about a missing gate vanish on a rural gas road5 min
- Volunteer firefighter senses dead crash victim, then an unexplained phone call5 min