Send us a textHeadlights carve a narrow path through the dark, and beyond that glow the highway starts to whisper. A longtime listener—an over-the-road driver—sent us a note that opened the door to a vault of stories truckers trade when the rest of the world is asleep: phantom hitchhikers who vanish at the truck stop door, rest areas that feel alive after midnight, sensitive freight that turns ordinary runs uncanny, and a black rig that appears from fog and dissolves like a thought you can’t quite hold.We dig into why these legends persist and how they map onto real conditions of the job—fatigue, solitude, vigilance, and the way certain routes gather reputation like weather. You’ll hear first-hand accounts of swings moving as if weighted though the lot is empty, radios that wake to 1950s music on the worst bend of a mountain pass, and CB voices that slide in from nowhere, warning of ice or singing a lullaby you can’t place. We balance folklore with grounded explanations—ionospheric skip, stress, mechanical quirks—without sanding off the edges that make the stories stick.Along the way, we talk cursed cargo and the psychology of hauling what you can’t identify, how specific mile markers become haunted by accidents and time, and why truck stops become communal memory palaces where waitresses give ghosts names and regulars nod like it’s just part of the route. Whether you believe in spirits or in the human mind’s need for patterns, the night road teaches the same lesson: look twice, listen close, and respect the places where history thins the air.If this journey through highway folklore sparked something—curiosity, a memory, your own late-night encounter—share the episode with a friend, leave a review, and subscribe so you don’t miss what the road wants to tell us next.Support the show

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