Oct 1, 2026 · 17 min · 5 segments
Three true rainy night drive horror stories unfold while alone at night in this chilling collection. Explore creepy encounters, eerie figures, and terrifying shadows that haunt empty roads as the rain…
This happened during a road trip I was taking on the way back from seeing my family for the holidays.
I'm not usually one to drive more than a couple hours because I much prefer flying, but this year the tickets to where I was going were way more expensive for some reason.
It would've cost me over 1,000 bucks for a round-trip flight that only went a few states over.
I had planned everything out so that I'd get home a few days before I had to go to work, but a snowstorm blew in on the day I was going to leave, so I had to stay an extra two days before finally starting the drive.
The roads were empty since it was past the holiday rush, and most of the drive is pretty out of the way from the big cities.
The hardest part of it was always staying awake and fighting the boredom.
The first eight or so hours went by without any trouble, though.
Sure, I was tired, but the snow on the road kept me awake and attentive.
It was about 10:00 PM, and I had a hotel booked in a small town just two hours further ahead.
But as I drove, a small light came up in my mirror.
It was the headlights of someone behind me, which was actually the first person I'd seen on the road with me in over an hour.
Their lights were getting bigger quickly, though, showing that they were coming up really fast, and soon I could see that it was actually a large van of some kind.
It was only a one-lane road, so I couldn't get out of their way, but I figured they would still swerve around me given they were going so fast.
Once they reached the back of my car, though, they matched my speed and stayed behind me.
After a few seconds, I realized they weren't trying to get around me, and we drove like that for almost 10 minutes.
It was kind of unnerving being that it was only us on the road, and yet this huge van was trailing right behind me.
It wasn't a normal following distance either.
They were so close that I couldn't even see their front bumper or license plate in my mirror.
Maybe I was quick to feel uneasy about it, but an exit came up for a gas station, and I chose to turn off, hoping they would stay on the road and that I could put some distance between us.
But as I veered off and down the exit ramp, they stayed right behind me.
I pulled into the gas station and parked at one of the pumps as the van pulled into the pump behind me.
At this point, I just didn't know what was happening.
Part of me thought that this was something bad, but another part of me thought I was just overreacting.
I knew that this was the only gas station in the past 30-ish minutes, so it wasn't all that unlikely that they would also need gas.
Before getting out to fill up my tank, I shut my car off and looked around.
This happened during a road trip I was taking on the way back from seeing my family for the holidays.
I'm not usually one to drive more than a couple hours because I much prefer flying, but this year the tickets to where I was going were way more expensive for some reason.
It would've cost me over 1,000 bucks for a round-trip flight that only went a few states over.
I had planned everything out so that I'd get home a few days before I had to go to work, but a snowstorm blew in on the day I was going to leave, so I had to stay an extra two days before finally starting the drive.
The roads were empty since it was past the holiday rush, and most of the drive is pretty out of the way from the big cities.
The hardest part of it was always staying awake and fighting the boredom.
The first eight or so hours went by without any trouble, though.
Sure, I was tired, but the snow on the road kept me awake and attentive.
It was about 10:00 PM, and I had a hotel booked in a small town just two hours further ahead.
But as I drove, a small light came up in my mirror.
It was the headlights of someone behind me, which was actually the first person I'd seen on the road with me in over an hour.
Their lights were getting bigger quickly, though, showing that they were coming up really fast, and soon I could see that it was actually a large van of some kind.
It was only a one-lane road, so I couldn't get out of their way, but I figured they would still swerve around me given they were going so fast.
Once they reached the back of my car, though, they matched my speed and stayed behind me.
After a few seconds, I realized they weren't trying to get around me, and we drove like that for almost 10 minutes.
It was kind of unnerving being that it was only us on the road, and yet this huge van was trailing right behind me.
It wasn't a normal following distance either.
They were so close that I couldn't even see their front bumper or license plate in my mirror.
Maybe I was quick to feel uneasy about it, but an exit came up for a gas station, and I chose to turn off, hoping they would stay on the road and that I could put some distance between us.
But as I veered off and down the exit ramp, they stayed right behind me.
I pulled into the gas station and parked at one of the pumps as the van pulled into the pump behind me.
At this point, I just didn't know what was happening.
Part of me thought that this was something bad, but another part of me thought I was just overreacting.
I knew that this was the only gas station in the past 30-ish minutes, so it wasn't all that unlikely that they would also need gas.
Before getting out to fill up my tank, I shut my car off and looked around.
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