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Late-night drives can be peaceful… until something unexpected appears on the road.  In “Unnerving Encounters on Roads at Night – Dark Files | Midnight Tales,” we explore chilling real-life and fictional stories of mysterious figures, haunted highways, and the eerie silence that hides the unknown.   Turn off the lights, put on your headphones, and get ready for a spine-chilling journey into the darkness.  👁️‍🗨️ Subscribe for more Dark Files and Midnight Tales every week — where fear has no limits.  horror, scary, ghost stories, haunted roads, paranormal, creepy encounters, dark files, midnight tales, ghost, mystery, eerie, supernatural, haunted highways, night drive horror, horror stories, urban legends, true horror, unexplained events, creepy videos, usa horror story, dark tales, chilling stories, scary videos, late night horror, spooky encounters

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00:00On the night of April 18th, 2021, at around 7.40pm, an Australian man named Mitch Cunay

00:07was driving down the Hume Highway in Bardia, Australia. He was returning from a racing event

00:12and heading home to Gold Coast City, when, completely out of nowhere, he saw a childlike

00:17figure standing in the middle of the road. The figure was wearing a blue parka, and from the

00:22few seconds he was in view, it looked like he was trying to cross the highway. Now Mitch was driving

00:27at nearly 60 miles an hour, or around 96 kilometers per hour. He was also towing a large toy hauler

00:34behind his car. Trying to brake or suddenly move out of the way in these conditions would

00:39have certainly resulted in a devastating accident, so Mitch had no choice but to keep driving.

00:45Fortunately, he managed to avoid the mysterious figure by mere inches. Fearing the safety of a

00:51potential child wandering the Hume Highway, his mother, who was also with him at the time,

00:55contacted the Australian police almost seconds later, the officers online assured them that

01:01they were putting patrols out immediately. However, Mitch couldn't stop thinking about

01:05what he saw. Trying to do everything he could, he called the police again at 8.29pm and offered

01:11the dashcam footage he'd captured of this figure. But to Mitch's surprise, the officers told him that

01:17they swept the area and actually found a young child matching the description he provided,

01:21and that he was being returned to his home as they spoke. What a child was doing in the middle

01:26of a highway at night miles from the nearest civilization was still a big mystery, but at

01:32least he was safe now. As Mitch put it on Facebook later that night, I felt absolutely sick when all

01:38this happened. I instantly felt so much better when I was told the kid had been collected.

01:42However, just when Mitch thought everything worked out okay, things took a wild turn.

01:49After confirming that the kid was safe, Mitch uploaded the video from his dashcam onto the

01:53internet, hoping to share the unnerving encounter he had with others. But as the video and his story

01:59gained traction, the New South Wales Police Department came forward and announced that they

02:03didn't find any child on the highway that night, completely contradicting what they had told Mitch

02:07that night. According to the official report, they scoured the surrounding area for nearly eight

02:13hours, searching until 3.45 a.m. before finally calling it off and finding no trace of a child

02:19nearby. The department stated that multiple cars attended and commenced a search of the area.

02:24However, no child was located and the search concluded. Now, there's no reason to believe that

02:29the NSW police would lie on an official report like this. What's more likely is that the person talking to

02:35Mitch earlier didn't know the full details and just made things up? Or maybe it was nothing more

02:40than a terrible case of miscommunication, where the police searching for the child somehow got

02:45twisted into them already having found him. But if the child was never found, what happened to him?

02:51The answer to that question, however, could be anything. Maybe its parents noticed their kid

02:55missing and took him back home. Or he could have been potentially kidnapped by someone who saw a

03:00child roaming the highway alone at night and took advantage of the opportunity. Though none of those

03:04theories explain how the child got to that spot in the first place. Unfortunately, the case remains

03:10an unsolved mystery to this day, and with so little coverage, it's unlikely we'll get answers anytime soon.

03:21On May 8th, 2021, TikToker PissedPasta, real name Maliv Paralis, was returning from a night out with her

03:29friends and roommates around 2.30am. However, what was supposed to be a fun hangout took a disturbing

03:35turn, when, while driving down the Packer Drive Northeast Road next to the Rogue River in Belmont,

03:40Michigan, one of them spotted a shadowy figure crawling onto the road.

03:44After discussing for a bit, the group decided to circle back and check what it was,

03:56and this is what they came across.

03:58It looked like a young woman, possibly in her 20s or 30s, sitting on the road while either waving at

04:15the car or banging her own head. She was also drenched from head to toe in 48 degree Fahrenheit

04:21or about 9 degrees Celsius weather. Maliv's group circled back one more time to confirm what they saw,

04:27and this time, the woman had completely collapsed onto the road. By this point, Maliv and her friends

04:33had realized that this woman was likely in dire need of medical assistance, but there was also a

04:38chance that this was a setup for a robbery, so they made the smart choice and called 911 without

04:43getting out of their car. The first responders and the police arrived shortly after and took her to

04:49a nearby hospital. Maliv returned to the spot they found her a few hours later, and it was still wet

04:55from the water dripping from her clothes. More importantly, she also found dig marks on the

05:00roadside near the river, suggesting that the woman had likely fallen in and swam out onto the road

05:05just minutes before Maliv's group passed by. After some investigation, the police also found her car

05:11parked behind a house near the river. In other words, she most likely fell into the river on the

05:16east side and managed to swim all the way across to the other side. Inquiring about her in the Facebook

05:21group for this neighborhood also revealed that she had actually interacted with some of the residents

05:25earlier that day, though her interactions were unnerving to say the least. Saw this person between

05:31Van Damme and Packer Woods around 10.15pm Friday, asked her if she needed help, to which she responded

05:37no. Another quote. There's another report by a guy on Douglas Street in the Westsiders uniforms page

05:44who had a similar situation with a woman walking into his home this week. She walked right into

05:49someone's house yelling, hello, hello, hello, then just left. She was wandering the backyard too.

05:55Though who she was and how she ended up there is still a mystery.

05:59Over the next few days, she recovered enough to tell investigators that she was from Kalamazoo,

06:04a town that's over 60 miles away from where she was found. But she didn't have any memory of ever

06:09driving to Belmont, which sounds strange at first, but actually has a surprisingly plausible

06:14explanation. You see, this woman was a 28-year-old Chinese student named Mei who went missing from

06:20Kalamazoo on May 6th, two days before she was discovered in Belmont. Before going missing,

06:26she also told her friends that she felt like she had a stalker. Upon hearing this, one of the first

06:31theories that comes to mind is that maybe she was kidnapped and then thrown into the river by this

06:36stalker. But it's important to note that according to the few witnesses in the police investigation,

06:41she drove to Belmont on her own. It's unclear whether this stalker was even real or not.

06:46However, the stress of feeling like she was constantly being watched likely messed with

06:50her mental state and triggered a disassociated fugue state, which for those who don't know,

06:55is a mental condition where the person forgets who they are and often starts doing things they

06:59otherwise wouldn't do. Some even go as far as moving to other cities and building new lives before

07:04they snap out of the state and come to their senses. What makes this already unsettling condition even

07:10worse is that the patient usually doesn't remember what they did during that fugue state either,

07:15and that's what likely happened to May. She got stressed, went into a fugue state,

07:19wandered around in her car for a couple of days, and eventually ended up in the river.

07:24Fortunately, she was able to come to her senses and swim to the shore before losing her life.

07:29On the 12th of October 2016, a family in Sheffield, England, went to the Drawbridge pub for a night out,

07:41and after an evening of fun and laughter, they decided to head back home at around midnight.

07:46The roads in that area are usually deserted at that hour, so they were already on guard for any

07:50robbers or other criminals they might run into on their way back. However, nothing in the world could

07:56have prepared them for what they came across just five minutes later. Seconds after they rounded

08:01the corner to the Grange Mill Lane Road, a man dressed in a clown costume jumped out from the

08:05shadows and blocked the road, forcing the driver to stop. He then started waving at the car,

08:14and as soon as it came to a full stop, he started running towards it while still blocking the path

08:18forward. When the driver tried to reverse his car and go the other way, the clown started sprinting

08:24at full speed. Typically, something like this could be dismissed as just some troll or a YouTuber

08:29making a scaring people at night as a clown video, especially given that this was 2016.

08:34However, due to an incident that happened just three days earlier, the driver of this car had

08:39no choice but to assume the worst. You see, on October 9th, at around 8.45pm, a man named Simon

08:46Chinnery was attacked by a knife-wielding clown in public. Fortunately, the attacker was apprehended

08:52before he could do any lethal damage to Simon. Sadly, Simon still suffered multiple slashes

08:57to his right hand, leaving it permanently disfigured to the point of being classified

09:01as a disability. What's worse than the attack itself was that it went viral and started a

09:06craze of thousands of others trying to imitate the attacker. In some parts of the country,

09:11the police departments were receiving as many as 23 reports of people threatening others dressed

09:15as clowns per day. And while many of these imitators were nothing more than trolls who had no real

09:20intentions of harming others, there were those who took things too far, with some trying to force

09:25their way into people's cars and chasing women and children with knives. So for this driver to

09:30see a man in a clown costume blocking their car while all this was going on had to be deeply

09:35unnerving for him. Their fear became worse when they tried to flee the clown because it started

09:40chasing them like a madman. With no other option, the driver was forced to press the pedal to the

09:46and hope for the best, with the clown jumping out of the way at the last second.

09:50This entire situation could have just as easily ended with the clown losing his life if he had

09:55even been a fraction of a second slower to jump away. On the other hand, who knows what the attacker

10:00might have done if the driver hadn't sped off.

10:02On June 2nd, 2018, one of the officers for Folshere Police Department in Texas was driving back to

10:12the station after his shift, when suddenly he saw the car in front of him swerve onto the next lane

10:17to avoid hitting something. But this wasn't a tree branch or an animal. Instead, it was something that

10:23looked like the aftermath of either a horrific crime or an accident. A young woman in a blue shirt was

10:29lying down horizontally across the road and was completely still, suggesting that she was either

10:34unconscious or dead. Maybe someone decided to dump the body in the middle of the road after committing

10:40the crime. Fortunately, when the officer walked up to her, she not only responded to him, but even stood up

10:47on her own. As it turned out, she had driven her car into the ditch next to the road just minutes earlier.

10:53Later tests also discovered an extremely high blood alcohol concentration in her system.

10:58Put simply, she was driving under the influence and ended up crashing into the side.

11:03The concussion from the accident combined with her prior intoxication made her behave extremely

11:07irrationally, which is why she walked up to the road and lay down without a care in the world.

11:13It's nothing short of a miracle that the car in front of the officer was able to spot and avoid

11:16her in time, or she would have ended up as nothing more than a cautionary tale about driving under the

11:21influence. On the night of February 26th, 1946, 25-year-old Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend Mary Jean

11:33were returning to their homes in Texarkana, Texas after watching a movie together. But before they

11:38reached the city limits, Jimmy stopped the car on the side of the road to extend their date for a

11:42short while. What neither of them knew, however, was that this little detour would nearly cost them

11:47their lives. About ten minutes after they had stopped, a man came out of the nearby woods and

11:53approached the car. He was wearing a white pillowcase over his head, with two small holes for

11:58eyes. The rest of his face was completely hidden from view. He told Jimmy to get out of the car,

12:04but Jimmy initially believed that this was a prank of sorts and didn't pay much attention to it.

12:09The masked man then pulled out his firearm and pointed it towards the couple, stating,

12:13I don't want to kill you, fella. Just do what I say. Understanding the gravity of the situation,

12:19Jimmy got out of the car as the masked man instructed. As soon as he did, the man swung

12:24his weapon at Jimmy's head, knocking him unconscious. Mary tried to run away into the woods,

12:30but the man caught up and did the same to her. Thankfully, before he could go further,

12:35he got spooked by a set of approaching headlights on the nearby road and ran away.

12:39Mary immediately ran to the nearest house and asked them to call the police.

12:42Jimmy also regained consciousness and hailed down a passing car to ask for help.

12:47However, by the time the police arrived on the scene to investigate, the man had vanished without

12:52a trace. Jimmy and Mary were taken to the hospital where it was discovered that the strike had

12:57fractured Jimmy's skull in multiple places. Fortunately, he was able to recover without any

13:02lasting injuries and describe what he remembered from that night. Both he and Mary gave the same

13:08statements about the overall build of the masked man, that he was around 6 feet tall and fairly

13:12slender. But for some reason, the two couldn't agree on his ethnicity. Jimmy insisted that he

13:18was a Caucasian, while Mary stayed adamant that he was of African origin. This contradiction,

13:24along with the seemingly unprovoked nature of the incident, led investigators to incorrectly

13:28believe the couple knew the man and were simply trying to protect him. What they didn't realize

13:34was that while Jimmy and Mary survived, to give a description, the next couple wouldn't be as

13:38fortunate. About a month later, on March 24th, a man was driving down a secluded road on the

13:44outskirts of Texarkana when he noticed a car parked on the road ahead. From a distance, it looked like

13:50a young man was sleeping in that car, slumped over on the steering wheel. However, as the driver got

13:56closer, he suspected that something wasn't right, so he pulled over to the side and walked up to the

14:01other car to try to wake him up, only to come to a scene far more horrific than he could have ever

14:05imagined. Put simply, the young man had already passed away long before the driver stumbled across

14:11him. He also noticed a woman in the backseat who had sadly suffered the same fate. Police were called

14:17to the scene, and they quickly identified the two as Richard Griffin and his girlfriend Polly Ann

14:22Moore. Both were killed with shots to the head. Unfortunately, the only evidence investigators

14:28were able to gather from the crime scene was a single .32 caliber cartridge, and while they

14:33didn't know it at this point, this incident was also the doing of the same man Jimmy and Mary had

14:38encountered a month earlier. The police finally made this connection on April 14th, when another

14:43couple encountered the same man while on an isolated road, and they were killed with a firearm

14:48of the same caliber. News of these three incidents quickly spread through Texarkana, putting all the

14:53residents on high alert. Fearing for their safety, most residents stopped driving at night entirely,

14:59while the remaining made sure to avoid empty roads at all costs. The masked man was also given the name

15:05of the Texarkana Phantom due to his inability to appear and disappear without a trace, and true to

15:11his name, he was becoming harder to track with each passing day, even after the FBI got involved.

15:17After two more months of fruitless searching, one of the investigators noticed that the vehicles were

15:22stolen shortly before each incident and were found abandoned not long after. Following this lead led

15:28to a man named Ewell Swinney, a car thief with two felonies to his name already. His height and build

15:34matched what Jimmy and Mary had described earlier. More importantly, when an officer tried to arrest him

15:40for the third time for car theft, he claimed that he knew that the officer wanted him for more than

15:45stealing cars. Unfortunately, investigators weren't able to find any evidence linking Ewell directly to

15:51the three haunting road encounters. Luckily, his prior felonies allowed prosecutors to give the harshest

15:56punishment for his third theft-related offense and sentenced him to life in prison. That being said, Ewell

16:03continued to deny any involvement in the three incidents until his end in 1994, leaving the Texarkana

16:09Phantom encounters a somewhat unresolved mystery to this day.

16:13On the 8th of January 2024, a truck driver was driving on a remote stretch of highway in Western Australia,

16:23when at around 11pm, this driver had the most unnerving road encounter of his life.

16:29Nearly 62 miles south of Perth, he saw what looked like two people dragging something across the highway.

16:35They showed up almost out of nowhere, forcing the truck driver to swerve around them at a dangerous speed.

16:40But by the time he stopped the truck and looked back, they had already vanished into the surrounding darkness.

16:46Which begs the question, what were they dragging and why?

16:50Unfortunately, the answer to both these questions is extremely ambiguous.

16:54For starters, it's extremely difficult to identify what exactly they were dragging.

16:59Going frame by frame, we can see what looks like the legs of another person wearing shorts and black shoes.

17:05So maybe the two people were trying to hide the primary evidence of their horrific crime.

17:10But in motion, it looked more like an animal or something in between.

17:14It could even be a life-sized plush, though that doesn't explain its very human-like proportions.

17:20Regardless of what it was, however, an equally important question is why two people would drag something across a highway.

17:26On September 16, 2018, an Uber driver from New York shared the terrifying encounter he had with an angry man on Long Island.

17:37He was about to complete a ride when, out of nowhere, another car drove past him at a very high speed while barely avoiding a collision.

17:44But before the Uber driver could even process what had happened, the other driver slammed on the brakes and parked in the middle of the road, blocking him from moving forward.

17:52He then got out of the car, ran over, and started bashing on the windows, telling the Uber driver to get out.

17:59It's unclear if this was simply unprovoked road rage, or an attempt to rob the driver and his passengers.

18:24Not wanting to find out the answer, the Uber driver made the correct decision and backed up to find a different route to his destination.

18:32However, there was no way for him to predict just how relentless the other driver would be.

18:37As soon as the Uber driver changed routes, the other driver got in his car as well and started chasing him, no matter where he went.

18:45Things went from bad to worse as they approached a red light, which would have given the other driver a chance to catch up and do something terrible before the police arrived.

18:53But in a remarkable stroke of luck, the Uber driver found a cop already waiting on the other side of the intersection.

18:59They were able to explain the situation to the officers, resulting in the other driver getting arrested for driving while intoxicated.

19:06Stopped the car, got out of the car, was trying to fight with me, so I backed up and turned around, then he was pursuing me, and these girls called 911, and the officer pursued him.

19:23Put simply, the other driver wasn't thinking clearly and could have been armed.

19:27If the Uber driver had panicked when he first approached, all three of them might have lost their lives.

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