Ghost Stories From The Road

Hi, I'm a freelance writer (done stuff for Freightliner, Western Star, Detroit, RoadPro) working on a Halloween article about trucker ghost stories -- anything to do with haunted trucks, haunted roads, haunted truck stops etc.. Think Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Anyone got any ghost stories they want to share?

Thanks,

Jim, you've got to include some reference in your article, even if briefly, to Red Sovine's song "Phantom 309." That's some classic truck driver ghost story stuff in that tune.

Do a search on line - I'm sure you can find it somewhere.

Watch Pee Wees' big adventure. "Tell 'em large Marge sent ya." Classic trucker ghost story.

Watch Pee Wees' big adventure. "Tell 'em large Marge sent ya." Classic trucker ghost story.

Yeah, it looked like THIS!:

Click here: Large Marge

I was driving in west Texas one night heading for Abilene on a dark state highway and saw trailer lights pulled over on the side. Did not think anything of it at first but as I was passing I got a better look. There was no truck attached to the trailer!

My dad was a teacher. He grew up on a farm, and in the summers he always had another job. He drove grain trucks in Iowa in the summers back in the 50s. In the 70s when I was a kid, he told me about a guy who found an arm (or part of it, anyway) stuck on the front of the stake box he was pulling when he stopped his truck. The fingers were still moving. Apparently another driver had his arm out the window in the heat when they passed by too close on a curve.

Then in the 90s when I was working in a call center in Colorado, we had a one-armed security guard that everyone made fun of. He was an older guy and really big. One day I was talking to him and he told me he was from Iowa. In the course of the conversation, he told me that's where his arm was - in Iowa. He said he lost it in a trucking accident. I remembered my dad's story and suddenly wondered if this could be the guy.

No, I never asked him for more details. It was too weird.

There is a link on YouTube called "The Helpful Hitchhiker."

http://youtu.be/hI58IbR2PGc

It's an Alfred Hitch**** ghost story for young people. I remembered it from when I was a kid, and haven't heard it in 35 to 40 years.

It is a trucker ghost story.

Dave

The only one I've heard is " the black dog"

Supposedly, if you see a black dog three times in a short amount of time it means you're gonna die. J canel from you tube has a story about it.

The only one I've heard is " the black dog"

Supposedly, if you see a black dog three times in a short amount of time it means you're gonna die. J canel from you tube has a story about it.

OMG !!! All those Black Labs out there! What to do?