"A young couple were happily driving home well after midnight
one night. They had enjoyed a party until the early hours of the
morning and were exhausted, both looked forward to getting home and
retiring to bed with the sounds of the party still ringing in their
ears.
The boy, suddenly feeling that the night was still only young,
abruptly took a detour off the main road home. It happens that the
road they were already on was fairly desolate and surrounded by
thick foliage from the dense forest as it was, but now he had
chosen a gravel road, one that looked as if nobody had driven down
it for quite a long time with even thicker scrub that was
occasionally scraping down the sides of the old car they were
driving.
Waking up and wondering where they were going, the girl inquired as
to what their new destination was. The boy admitted he felt like
going for a bit of drive and spending some "quality time" alone
with his girlfriend. He had in mind somewhere dark and secluded,
where no interruptions were going to take place. Although the girl
was tired, she agreed to the new plans, knowing that the boy was
far too pushy for her to say no.
It was a slow drive down the newly chosen dirt road, and the car
headlights did nothing to penetrate the thick black night and scrub
that surrounded them. Unexpectedly the car hit something on the
road. Not knowing what it was the boy stopped immediately and
hopped out to investigate. "Oh No!" he exclaimed as he spied a
large log wedged underneath. He turned to see that there was also
now a large stream of smoke escaping from his old, tired cars
engine. The boy kicked at the log, knowing that he would need to do
more than kick it to dislodge it from under his car. "Just my
luck!" he thought as he got back in the vehicle and told the girl
of what had happened.
Wincing, he attempted to restart the vehicle, but being an early
model from the 1970's the car complained loudly then died before it
ever really fired up. The starter lights showed but no amount of
persuading would start the car properly.
"I'm going to have to walk back to the main road for help" he said,
shaking his head and gripping the useless steering wheel in front
of him. "Stay in the car and I'll be back soon" was his last words
as he climbed out of the vehicle, hunched his shoulders and walked
off into the darkness on his own.
Although the girl did not like the idea of spending the rest of the
night alone, out on a dirt road, god knows where, she was too tired
to be bothered to go with him and sleepily thought of how she might
nestle down in her passenger seat and dream while he was away
getting help. Anyway wasn't it his idea to come way out here?, he
should be the one to go find help!.
She watched him in the side mirror for as long as she could see
him, which wasn't very long at all, he seemed swallowed by the
night and she thought in the back of her mind how stupid he was to
take this road, and hoped he would take a while so she could get
some decent shut eye.
While happily drifting off to sleep, she wondered if he'd be back
before dawn, and also how on earth he would find help when they had
seen no traffic on the main road anyhow.
STARTLED, she awoke suddenly. "what was that?!", sleepy confusion
was fogging her thoughts as she shook her head with the distinct
impression that something had happened while she was asleep,
something that woke her but now had passed or stopped. Peering out
the windscreen and into the side mirror all she could see was
darkness, darkness and more darkness. The night was as quiet as
anything, hadn't she heard night noises before? why on earth was it
so still and quiet now, surely something must of woken me!.
On edge and feeling cold and shaky from being pulled from such a
deep sleep, she now wished she had of noted the time when her
boyfriend had gone for help. Checking her watch it seemed as though
dawn was about to break through the trees at any moment. It was now
4.30am.
When did he go? Must of been around 2.00am or 2.30 am surely? her
mind started flipping backwards to see if it could conjure up the
memory of exactly what time he had left for help. "Well whatever
time it was, it was ages ago and he should be coming back pretty
soon", she quietly admitted to herself.
The night was unbelievably quiet now, need I say, dead quiet, and
she had the distinct impression that she wasn't alone. Not being
able to see anything in front or behind her she hoped it was her
boyfriend returning with help. Goosebumps were beginning to show
themselves on her arms and the hair on the back of her neck started
to rise up as the blackness outside suddenly seemed to move. "I
must be going mad", she said out loud to nobody in particular. She
decided that she'd had enough and went for the keys left in the
ignition to see if she could get the headlights working. As she
stretched over to the drivers seat there was a loud "THUMP" on the
roof of the car. Her instant reaction was to jump, nearly hitting
her head on the roof and cower back in her seat. Looking madly
around, but instinctively not moving a muscle it became apparent to
her that she did see something move outside the car, in the
darkness.
"THUMP, THUMP". The loud noise happened again, and a small scream
escaped from her mouth. What do I do, what is it, somebody help me,
were all thoughts running madly through her mind. I'm alone out
here in the darkness, what on earth do I do? "THUMP!" there it goes
again, somebody is up there!
Tears of utter fear and horror crawled from her eyes and down her
cheeks, there was no help, she was alone, and there was most
probably a monster on the roof about to eat her.
THUMP.......again..................THUMP THUMP. The fear overcame
her, she decided that she wouldn't be a sitting duck, she would
open the door and make a run for it. If she couldn't see into the
thick darkness of the night, surely the monster couldn't.
"THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP" and that was it. Fumbling with the lock
(she'd forgotten that she'd locked all the doors earlier) and the
door handle, tears now streaming from here eyes and blurring her
vision, she threw the door open, nearly dislodging it from it's
hinges, being so terrified and confused instead of making a grand
exit and run for it she fell head first from the car and landed
flat on her face in the dirt.
As she was attempting to both crawl and regain her feet and run,
bright lights suddenly flooded the area. She could only see the
bulbs and dark shadows behind the lights. She was rapidly
succumbing to shock as she heard some voice saying something into a
loud speaker. Dazed and back on her feet, she could only think to
stumble un lady like towards the bright lights. Shading her eyes
she could still hear the voice, it sounded like a fairly
authoritative voice and it was giving some sort of instructions to
her.
Again the voice repeated. "Lady, move away from your car towards us
and whatever you do, don't look back". Again "Ma'am would you
please continue moving towards us do not look back, face us and
don't look back". She was now on the brink of fainting and could
only fall towards those bright lights. She was caught by a man in
uniform which she recognized to be from the local Police Department
and could suddenly see past the lights. There were possibly 10 to
15 Squad cars and double that amount of police officers with guns
drawn. Before she lost consciousness she decided there was one last
thing she had to do. She struggled to flip over and face the
car.
On the roof of the car was what appeared to be a monster, or it
could it be a deformed human? It had a large stick in its hands and
was drooling madly as it laughed and banged it's stick on the car
roof. She did not miss that at the end of the stick, was her
boyfriends head.
The story has been featured in films such as "Urban Legends" and
other teen scream films."