4 Very Scary TRUE Truck Stop Vanishing Horror Stories

00:00 "See You Soon…":
A 22-year-old woman and her 19-year-old brother Tom are driving cross-country when their car breaks down at a remote Wyoming truck stop. A quiet middle-aged man in a red pickup offers to give Tom a ride to a nearby parts shop. Though uneasy, she agrees. Tom waves goodbye—and never returns. Hours pass with no sign of the pickup, and no one at the truck stop remembers seeing it. She finds a receipt near the parking space for chains and rope, deepening her fear. The sheriff reveals similar disappearances involving drivers who prey on stranded travelers along interstate highways. Tom’s wallet is later found tossed in a ditch, but no trace of him is ever recovered. Even years later, she receives a chilling anonymous call saying, “Your brother shouldn’t have trusted me.” The case remains unsolved, and she still searches truck stops, haunted by the knowledge that the man who took Tom may still be out there.



07:00 "The Side Door":
A young woman stops at a late-night truck stop to pick up her exhausted friend, Lisa, after her shift. While they eat in the dim, unsettling diner, an older trucker named Dave approaches them with forced friendliness and an unsettling stare. When Lisa later returns inside to retrieve her forgotten phone, she doesn’t come back. Searching the lot, the narrator finds her inside Dave’s blue rig—calm at first, unaware of the danger—until subtle details reveal something deeply wrong: the metallic smell, a rifle case, women’s clothes in a plastic bag, and an ID that isn’t Lisa’s. When Dave’s demeanor suddenly shifts from polite to controlling, the narrator fights her way out and screams for help. Police arrive, discovering hidden bloodstains and belongings from multiple missing women, but Lisa is gone. Weeks later, her body is found miles away, and Dave is tied to disappearances from truck stops across several states. The narrator is left haunted by the night she barely escaped the same fate—and the secrets that highways swallow in the dark.



16:12 "The Last Turnoff":
Kayla stops at a remote Georgia truck stop during a late-night drive, unaware that a stranger has entered her car while she briefly returns to the diner. As she leaves, she begins receiving unsettling texts from an unknown number and notices a black pickup following her. The driver— a quiet man she’d seen in the diner—corners her at a deserted gas station, breaks into her car, and abducts her.He takes her to a hidden shed deep in the woods, where he reveals he has kidnapped before and plans to make her “run” in a twisted game. After hours of terror, Kayla works free of her restraints, attacks him, and escapes into the forest.Though she reaches safety and the police find the shed empty, the man vanishes without a trace. Reports link him to a previous disappearance at the same truck stop. Kayla occasionally receives chilling texts—“Missed you”—leaving her to live in constant fear that her abductor is still out there, hunting for his next victim.



25:02 "Westbound":
Two nineteen-year-old hitchhikers, the narrator and her friend Lisa, stop at a dusty truck stop on Interstate 45 in Texas while traveling to California. Inside the diner, they notice a strange bearded man who watches them a moment too long. When Lisa goes to the restroom and doesn’t return, the narrator searches the diner and truck lot, but she’s nowhere to be found. Police are called but find nothing.Hours later, the narrator hears a faint noise coming from a semi-trailer with tinted windows. Inside, she discovers a hidden torture chamber and a kidnapped girl named Amy— but no Lisa. The bearded man returns briefly, confirming he is the abductor, and after he leaves, the narrator helps Amy escape.Authorities later find evidence in the man’s truck, including Lisa’s jacket. He is eventually caught in another state and confesses to multiple abductions and murders. Lisa’s body is found in a remote barn. The narrator is left haunted by the memory of that night and how close she came to becoming the next victim.




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