Looking for true unexplained or paranormal experiences

Here is mine. I was driving in a blinding snowstorm on I-70 across Colorado at night was running team at the time and I drove nights. Well approaching Glenwood Springs Colorado had not seen another truck or anything in about 20 mins or so going east. All of a sudden clear as a day out of my CB I hear Florilli stop. I did 20 feet from a boulder that had fallen in the road. Here is were it gets weird no one behind me or that had come the other way.

 

Well; I was hitchhiking one day when big joe stopped and gave me a ride and a dime for a cup of coffee....

 

That's funny right there!

 

I was driving from Dallas Texas to Omaha NE, not in a big rig, but in my small truck. I was very tired and started to do those long extended blinks, but I was just outside lincoln NE amd just wanted to get home, so I pushed it.
My blinks were getting longer, even with the radio turned up and windows down, I was sleepy and struggling to stay awake.
I opened my eyes from a slow extended blink... and as real as anything, there was a man sitting in my passager seat, he didn't say anything, he just leaned forward and turned toward me and gave me a concerned look... The look, and I know this sounds weird was a "wake up kido" look, I know that is what he was saying with out words.
Well, I did, because I got a rush of adrenaline, after all, there was a man I did not know sitting next to me in my truck, when I was sriving alone. Well I was wide awake and made it home.
I told my mum about it and discribed the man I saw right down to the black and red big squared flannel shirt he was wearing, like lumber jacks wear. She asked me about it the next day and I discribed him again, then she asked me to discrib him later that evening and I did and I assured her it was no one I recognized from our family that has passed on.
Then she showed me a picture of my fathers father. I was amazed, it was him, only in the picture he wasn't wearing the red and black lumber jack shirt. My dads mom left them when they were younger (him and his older sister) and they ended up going to an orphanage and I never knew anything about my dads famlily until my senior year in highschool when his sister found him and called. She had sent my dad that one picture of his father and it was the only one my dad had, so he kept it safe and tucked away which is why I never saw it.
You can think I was tired and halucinated, and that I discribed a man close to what my dads father looked like, but I know it was real and it was him. One other thing, later when my dad and his sister went back to their old farm and found more out about their father, turns out he most always wore those black and red lumber jack shirts. He didn't the day the picture was taken because he was at a funeral.
Anyway, I know it was real, it didn't last long but it left a lasting impression.

Also, I never push on when I am that tired anymore.

 

holy #### dude...

 

Ok this is a topic i can really get into here as i have had a few myself,ok now in all seriousness somewhere along the line some of you must have seen,heard or experienced something in your life...

 

About thirty years ago an old hand gave me some "Black Beauties" and told me that they'd help me stay awake so I could "really truck". After about four days of "really truckin"...I stopped at a railroad crossing behind a buddy of mine that was "really truckin" too...We waited for a long time and I finally asked him what we were waiting for? He said "I'm waitin' for the train to pass" Problem was, There wasn't a train passing...There wasn't even a set of tracks there! A little later we got to the customer and I spent the rest of the night "washing" my truck with Windex and paper towels while we waited for them to get there to unload us! It was raining hard at the time but...No worries!

I didn't take "road dope" anymore after that!


That's as close as I ever came to anything remotely paranormal....

 

Back in the 70's I was working for Merchants Fast Motors in TX . Had a 50 yr old line dispatcher that was dating a 20 something. He used to take those Black Mollies. Stay up with that youngster all weekend. Was totally useless till at least Thursday. Never took any and seeing what he looked like afterwards made me not ever want to.

 

I've had several "unusual" things happen, but I will tell the shortest most simple.

I was running unassigned linehaul at night for an LTL company. Unassigned, meaning I had no regular route, but ran which ever loads needing to go. One night I was very tired and sleepy. The odd hours of unassigned has messed with my sleep patterns. I had a long run that night, and left out very tired.

About 70 miles out I topped a mountain and looked over at a McDonalds, wishing it was open so I could get something to drink to wake me up. That is the last thing I remember until the bright lights of a brightly lit exit sign woke me up 20 miles later. I have no memory of driving, how I got there, or what happened. All I know is the truck stayed on the road, and apparently there were no wrecks. I believe to this day a hand reached down and guided my truck safely until I woke up.