5 TRUE SCARY STORIES Rest Stops (1)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That seemed to fhaz him. I saw him getting back
in his car, and to add to the creepiness, someone
came out of the bushes and also got in the car.
They left. In a few minutes after that, I turned
on my van and drove in the opposite direction that
they went to. Safe to say that I never slept

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in another rest area that didn't have at least a
couple cars parked. I don't know what those people wanted,
but with Australia's history of backpackers serial killers, I'm very
happy to be here today.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
About three weeks ago, my mom told my brother and
I this story, and that straight up gave me a
yucky feeling. Sally is a lifelong friend. Sally would frequently
visit her friends and family in Oklahoma. We live in
a small town in southern Ontario, Canada. Sally would drive

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straight twenty hours at least to get from our town
to another small town. She did this simply to save
money and obviously wanted to arrive as soon as she could.
About thirty years ago, she decided to head south for
a visit. No big deal, as she's done this a
few times, so she packs up and heads out At

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some point, after driving about fourteen to fifteen hours, she
started getting pretty tired. Being as it was probably the eighties,
it was a little safer, so she decided that she
would stop at a rest stop. It was more of
a traveler stop. My mom said to sleep for a
little bit and resume her drive first thing in the morning.

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She parks in a very well lit and busy rest stop.
She parks right by the light and felt at ease
because there was an audience of travelers stopping and going.
She gets out for a bathroom break, comes back and
settles into her car. About then an RV pulls up
beside her, and an elderly couple get out. The man

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asks her about coming from Canada. They strike up a
little conversation. Nothing odd. The couple talked to Sally for
a bit. They tell her that they're driving from the
south going north and just needed to have a sleep
for the night. They wanted to talk because they were
unsure if a rest stop was okay to stop at,

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but seeing Sally, they were at ease. They said good
night and good trip, and the couple went back into
their RV. Saally locked the doors and went to sleep.
Two or three hours later, Sallly woke up with a
really unsettling feeling. She looks around nothing, a few people

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going in the stop parking lights are all on. She
assumes that she's feeling bad because she's tired. In a
car isn't the best to sleep in. After about ten minutes,
she said that the feeling actually got worse and it
was a jarring, queasy, uneasy feeling. She sits back and

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tries to shrug it off. This didn't work, and apparently
she had every red alarm and instinct telling her that
she needs to go. She panics, starts her car and
peels off. She doesn't care where, she just knew that
she needed to get away from there. So about twenty
miles down the road, she finds a motel and gas station.

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She decides to see if she can get a room
with what little money that she had. She converses with
a person in charge. He cuts her deal as he
doesn't want a young woman driving alone at night. She
gets a key, pops in her hotel room, and sleeps
for the night, no issues, all in peace. Around nine

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a m. She wakes up and showers, changes clothes, and
decides to relax for a few She turns on the
TV and what was on it actually gave her chills.
There was a breaking news story about an elderly couple
killed in the middle of the night. The news shows
the RV that Sally was parked next to the exact spot,

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the exact rest stop, and she sees the fast food
drink cup she dropped on accident that rolled under her car.
Sometime during the night, a man broke into their RV
and killed them, then left, presumably right before Sallie had left.
The man was never caught. Sally since then stopped at

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hotels for the night and of avoided rest stops.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Back in two thousand and five, when I was eighteen,
I had just dropped out of high school in Minnesota.
It was about halfway through the school year and I
just didn't have the credits I needed to graduate. I
had some health problems my junior year and was altogether
frustrated with my life. At this point in time, I

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was more concerned