This story happened a short while ago in Nanaimo, and even though it sounds
a little Alfred Hitchcock… it’s true. John, a VI University student, was
hitch hiking about 100 Km’s north of Victoria on an unlit country road and on
a very dark night with a severe storm raging… Thunder, lightning, torrential
rain… The night was rolling on and no car went by. The storm was so strong he
could hardly see any more than a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly, in a flash
of lightning, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and it suddenly stopped
just a few feet from where he stood. John, in the dark and driving rain, desperate
for shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door.
There was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn’t on!
The car then began moving slowly.
A little terrified by the sudden movement, without obvious human interaction,
John was thinking about jumping from the moving vehicle, but the storm was
getting worse… here was a safe haven form the tempest… of sorts… He looked
ahead at the road and saw a curve approaching.
Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life… Do I jump, he thought,
when suddenly, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the
window and turned the wheel.
John, in the dark, with only the flash of the lightning and paralyzed with
terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve. John
saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength, he jumped out
of the slowly moving car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed
inside and asked for two shots of tequila. He then started telling everybody
around him the horrible experience he had just been through. A silence had
enveloped everybody when they realized he was crying and wasn’t drunk…
About
5 minutes later, two blokes walked into the same pub. They were also wet
and out of breath. Looking around and seeing John sobbing at the bar, one
said to the other, “Look, Bruce… there’s the idiot that got in the car while
we were pushing it.”
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