I’m sad more people aren’t answering, I was hoping to hear some creepy stories.
I have another one, if anyone is interested.
When I was around 18 or 19, me and a group of my female friends all drove to George, Washington for the Warped Tour at the Gorge Amphitheater – which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, as you can see. After a very long and tiring (but fun) day, we piled into the car around 9pm and headed back to Portland. We were driving along the highway, which had no lights, and there was forest on both sides of us. Eventually, a white car was quickly catching up to our car because they were speeding from behind us. We thought nothing of it and the person who was driving our car got into the right lane to let them pass, which they did. Once around us, they stopped speeding and started doing the speed limit. None of us, at that point, thought anything was out of the ordinary.
We were all pretty oblivious because we were talking to each other and having a nice time – until I randomly noticed that we didn’t seem to be going as fast as we should have been. I looked to the front to check the speedometer and noticed that we were only doing about 45, which was ten under. I eyed the car in front of us and wondered out loud why they’d been speeding, only to stop speeding and go under the speed limit once they were in front of another car. Everyone was pretty much like “Yeah, haha, how stupid”. We went back to talking for a few minutes, but then the person in front of us slowed down to 40, then 35, at which point the person driving our car was getting irritated and said “What the hell is this guy doing?”. So we were all, by that point, completely focused on the car – which then proceeded to slow down to 20, 15, 10, and then they just stopped. Right there in the road. We were all pretty freaked out by this point, because if something had been wrong, we knew they would have pulled over.
Finally, from behind us, another car started approaching, and the car in front of us started to drive, very quickly, up to the speed limit – which really freaked us out. We tried, as the other car passed the front car, to stay behind the one that had just approached, but the car in front of us would not let us by and was staying exactly even with our car, so we got too scared to try to switch lanes and we backed off as the other car disappeared ahead of us. Again, they stopped in the road, at which point some of the people I was with started crying, because we had no idea if this person/people were pranking us or if they were genuinely wanting to do something bad. Someone suggested that the driver race around them, but I said not to because I was afraid they were going to try to ram us off the road. Not one of us had cellphone reception, either, and it was genuinely like something straight out of a horror movie.
We finally decided to do a u-turn with the person still just sitting there, and we sped off in the opposite direction. We then pulled over on the side of the road with our lights off, waiting for another car to come by. Finally, we saw a semi coming, pulled out in front of it and made sure there wasn’t enough room between us and the semi for another car to get through. Sure enough, as we reached the spot we’d been, the car was still in the same area, going under the speed limit. When they saw us – and the semi – they sped back up and disappeared.
I will always think back on it wondering if we escaped something horrible or if it was just a group of people playing an extremely mean and affective prank. :-/