Full Transcript for Halloween Special: Ghost Stories from the Road

early 90s. Uh, this is just a couple of young rappers that just wore their 48 00:04:20,679 --> 00:04:26,039 clothing backwards, which, I'll tell you, that created a real problem. Uh, in the bathroom for the 49 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:32,879 kids that were trying to, uh, you know, emulate them, um, because you realize, like, oh, man, I 50 00:04:32,999 --> 00:04:37,559 need to use the bathroom and my belt and my zipper and my butt and everything is behind me, 51 00:04:37,559 --> 00:04:42,799 and it's really tough. It's it's hard to negotiate. I was never a big Criss Cross guy, but I love 52 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:49,119 seeing the costumes. Another costume that I have a great picture of. And I can't stand looking at 53 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,820 this picture because it's me with long hair and I just don't. It doesn't work for me, but I was, uh, I 54 00:04:54,820 --> 00:05:00,219 was Keith Stone. You remember Keith Stone from the Keystone commercials? Um, yeah. I put my wife's hair 55 00:05:00,220 --> 00:05:06,140 extensions in. Got an 18 rack keystone. Walked around, handed him out all night. It actually was, 56 00:05:06,140 --> 00:05:09,699 uh, one of my better ones to come to think of it, I was also the commissioner of the Moore Taste 57 00:05:09,739 --> 00:05:15,578 League. I had a lot of beer themed costumes when I was in my 20s, as you might imagine. Um, but that's 58 00:05:15,579 --> 00:05:20,059 the part of Halloween that I enjoy. I like the costumes. I think it's funny when people put a lot 59 00:05:20,060 --> 00:05:26,939 of thought into it. Um, I saw a guy that had made an entire knight suit of armor out of Pizza Hut 60 00:05:26,940 --> 00:05:32,299 pizza boxes, and I'm not talking about, like, he just glued a couple of pizza box, uh, pizza boxes 61 00:05:32,299 --> 00:05:38,419 to himself. I'm talking this was a suit of armor that I probably would have been okay taking into, 62 00:05:38,459 --> 00:05:43,939 like, a small rock fight, okay? Because it would have protected you a little bit. And I just think 63 00:05:43,939 --> 00:05:50,899 the creativity is so cool. Not necessarily. Always a guy that likes to be scared. Okay, I just 64 00:05:50,899 --> 00:05:56,839 got back from Las Vegas with my wife, And she is huge into kind of the horror thing. She loves the 65 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:03,599 macabre. She's a tattoo artist. She's always, uh, you know, tattooing different kind of spooky things on 66 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,319 people or herself, which has a little bit of a horror theme to it. I mean, how do you tattoo 67 00:06:08,359 --> 00:06:15,199 yourself? Oh, but anyway, I digress. I'm not big on being scared. I took my wife to Vegas. We 68 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,079 went to area 15. If you've heard of it, it's just this big complex. They do a lot of different quote 69 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:26,880 unquote experiences there. Um, we skipped over the John Wick experience this time, which really kind 70 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,839 of stuck in my craw a little bit. But we did that because I wanted to take my wife to Horror 71 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:38,640 Unleashed, which is this gigantic warehouse with four separate haunted houses themed in 72 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,200 different ways. There was an exorcist haunted house. There was a Texas Chainsaw Massacre haunted 73 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:49,119 house. There was some kind of creepy like corn maze and scarecrow haunted house. I'm not sure 74 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,339 what that one was. And then there was one that was just called monsters, and it had a lot of the 75 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:59,660 different monsters over time. I mean, going all the way back to the thing and, um, and the creature 76 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:03,578 from the swamp or whatever it was that had the weird gills. I don't remember the names because I 77 00:07:03,579 --> 00:07:09,299 didn't watch these things, because I didn't like being terrified. And one thing I found out about 78 00:07:09,299 --> 00:07:14,619 going through these haunted houses is, oh my God, they are so good at the jump scares and their 79 00:07:14,620 --> 00:07:20,219 makeup and the costumes were so realistic, and they just gave you that feeling that even though 80 00:07:20,220 --> 00:07:26,059 you knew when you turned this corner, a dude was going to jump out at you, you still couldn't keep 81 00:07:26,059 --> 00:07:30,940 yourself from being startled. And I learned about halfway through the second of the four haunted 82 00:07:30,940 --> 00:07:36,859 houses that we toured through. What I needed to do is walk behind my wife because then she goes 83 00:07:36,860 --> 00:07:43,339 around the corner. She gets scared. Now that I find funny, I don't want to be scared myself, but if you 84 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:48,980 jump out and you scare my wife and she screams, I think that's hilarious. So I will admit to you 85 00:07:48,980 --> 00:07:54,920 that for two and a half haunted houses I was walking through hysterically laughing, and I hope 86 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,479 I know that none of the actors in those haunted houses will ever hear this podcast if they do. 87 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,399 Thanks for listening, but it's kind of would be a random occurrence. I just want you guys to know 88 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:10,040 that if you saw a bearded dude walking through behind his wife who was being terrified over and 89 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:16,119 over again and the dude was laughing, I was not laughing at you. Your performances were very 90 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:21,199 convincing. Okay? If I'd walked through first, what you would have heard is nothing but a string of 91 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:27,879 expletives as you scared me. But since I find it funny to watch my wife get startled, I got to have 92 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:32,719 a really good time in these haunted houses, just following her and laughing about what she was 93 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:38,399 going

through and kind of, you know, patting the blow for myself. So just a little background there 94 00:08:38,439 --> 00:08:43,760 on letting you know that while I like Halloween, because I got a huge sweet tooth and the candy 95 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:49,940 this time of year is just bonkers. I mean, you can get so many different varieties. I love a good 96 00:08:50,059 --> 00:08:54,020 pumpkin Reese's peanut butter cup. You know, the ones that are shaped like the the jack o lanterns 97 00:08:54,020 --> 00:08:57,539 coming out around Halloween? Uh, something about them. I don't know what it is that they do 98 00:08:57,539 --> 00:09:02,059 different. Probably nothing, but they taste a little bit different to me, and I'll probably 99 00:09:02,059 --> 00:09:06,940 house like 30 of them between now and the end of the month. Um, and I'm going to be honest with you 100 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:12,499 here, too, while we're talking about Candy, I am one of those guys. I do like candy corn, okay. And I 101 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:17,819 actually even more than candy corn. I like the pumpkins. I like the candy corn. Little pumpkins. I 102 00:09:17,820 --> 00:09:23,098 don't know why I've made myself sick on those things so many times as a child, but they're 103 00:09:23,099 --> 00:09:28,500 delicious, and I'm gonna keep eating them. Uh, so that's all there is to it. Anyway, I was trying to 104 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:32,779 get some drivers here to join me on this, and it kind of seems like maybe there's not a lot of 105 00:09:32,780 --> 00:09:38,299 drivers out there, uh, driving for Bulk and Spur that are super excited about Halloween to begin 106 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:44,259 with. So I thought, okay, how can we turn this into a Halloween special where we're still trucking or 107 00:09:44,259 --> 00:09:51,200 trucking adjacent, and maybe we just don't work any drivers into this one. Well, I went and did 108 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:57,759 some research, and I didn't enjoy doing that research because it scared me. But I have a lot 109 00:09:57,799 --> 00:10:04,679 of kind of trucker themed Halloween stories to tell you. Uh, urban legends 110 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:10,159 and myths. Uh, we're going to talk a little bit about how Hollywood plays into this whole thing, 111 00:10:10,159 --> 00:10:16,120 because there's one thing, if you like to watch movies about trucks and you also like horror 112 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:23,118 movies, one thing that you'll find is, uh, Hollywood loves a good villain trucker story. And a lot 113 00:10:23,119 --> 00:10:28,439 of the times it's not the driver as much as it is. The truck itself is sort of somehow the villain. 114 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:33,719 Um, but if you've ever seen joyride or any of these movies that are sort of similar to that and 115 00:10:33,719 --> 00:10:39,559 again, there's there's weird stuff that that kind of surrounds trucking now. I'm fortunate enough to 116 00:10:39,599 --> 00:10:46,399 know enough truckers and a ton of you guys from bulk and also outside of the company as well. I 117 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,859 know that you're not weird cryptos. I know that you're not out harassing people over the CB. Uh, or 118 00:10:51,939 --> 00:10:55,859 you mean most of you guys don't even use CBS anymore? So you're not doing that. You're not 119 00:10:55,859 --> 00:11:00,579 following people and acting weird and trying to run them off the road. I know that about truckers, 120 00:11:00,579 --> 00:11:05,899 but for some reason, Hollywood thinks that that's what you guys are. So, uh. And maybe not you guys. 121 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:11,859 Maybe not all of you. Maybe just a few of you. Either way, you spend more time out in the middle 122 00:11:11,859 --> 00:11:18,659 of nowhere. Late nights, zero lights, zero civilization, maybe shoddy cell phone service. 123 00:11:18,659 --> 00:11:25,658 And that seems to be where weird stuff happens. And I have a lot of stories to tell you 124 00:11:25,659 --> 00:11:29,739 today. We're going to parse down a little bit, because I don't want to spend too much time 125 00:11:29,780 --> 00:11:36,059 telling other people's stories, but I combed through so many forums, uh, truckers report, 126 00:11:36,060 --> 00:11:42,019 Reddit, all sorts of different, uh, just websites that people have written their stories on. And I 127 00:11:42,059 --> 00:11:48,359 found some that really kind of stuck with me for various reasons and some of it is kind of ghost 128 00:11:48,359 --> 00:11:54,559 story adjacent. Like I said, we'll talk some urban legend stuff, but some of it is also kind of 129 00:11:55,119 --> 00:12:01,999 metals in the paranormal, if you will. Okay. And rightfully so. Because if you see something 130 00:12:01,999 --> 00:12:06,879 that maybe it's, you know, who knows, maybe you see it in the middle of March, but it's like a monster. 131 00:12:07,119 --> 00:12:12,319 It still is a well-told story around the campfire at Halloween. And that's kind of what we're doing 132 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:18,439 here today on our Halloween special on Always pneumatic, never static. So let's jump into it. Uh, 133 00:12:18,479 --> 00:12:25,280 this is an account from a Reddit thread. Now, this is actually not the r slash truckers 134 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:30,879 Reddit thread, which is where I find a ton of great stuff from truck drivers that are going 135 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:36,999 through it. They work the job and that is their forum. This one was on Ask Reddit, but it was asked 136 00:12:36,999 --> 00:12:42,439 directly to truckers and it said basically truck drivers, what's the spookiest or most paranormal 137 00:12:42,439 --> 00:12:48,819 or the creepiest thing you've seen out there on the road and wow, there. There's just a litany of 138 00:12:48,820 --> 00:12:55,780 stories here. So let's jump into this one. This one was just titled The Thing Carrying a Deer. And 139 00:12:55,780 --> 00:13:00,460 that right there. Okay.

If you've ever I mean, I know a lot of you guys are deer hunters out there. 140 00:13:01,020 --> 00:13:06,579 Deer like you don't just pick one up and throw it over your shoulder. Some of you can, but most of us 141 00:13:06,580 --> 00:13:12,419 can't. And so when I see the thing carrying a deer, my interest was piqued. Let's get into it a little 142 00:13:12,419 --> 00:13:18,619 bit. Basically, what happened here is around 6:00 in the evening, a trucker came into a station 143 00:13:18,620 --> 00:13:24,739 looking badly shaken, and he was adamant with the gas station attendant that he was about to 144 00:13:24,780 --> 00:13:31,459 describe what really had happened, something that he saw. And he was very, very adamant as well that 145 00:13:31,460 --> 00:13:37,940 he was not crazy. Okay. According to the account, the trucker had been traveling through a remote 146 00:13:37,940 --> 00:13:44,279 area when he noticed something enormous near the roadside. Now, at first glance, the figure might 147 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:51,039 have been mistaken for an animal or maybe even a human. It was dark, but the driver kept 148 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:57,759 approaching this thing and what he saw was frightening. 149 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,239 He saw this thing standing over the top of a dead buck deer on the side of the road. Hey, maybe it's 150 00:14:04,239 --> 00:14:09,358 a hunter. The deer got away. Got hit by a truck. You never know. Uh, there's a lot of things that that 151 00:14:09,359 --> 00:14:13,519 could be. Maybe it was somebody who had pulled their truck off on a little side road and was 152 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,680 trying to clear some roadkill from the road. There's a lot of logical explanations that can 153 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:25,440 come in here. However, what this truck driver told the gas station attendant is, no, no no no no. I 154 00:14:25,679 --> 00:14:32,679 saw this giant dark figure over the top of a deer, and I realized that it was actually 155 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:38,879 peeling pieces of flesh off of the deer and eating them well as the truck 156 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:45,739 approached. Okay. Yeah, weird. I, I shouldn't gloss over the weirdest parts of these stories. Holy 157 00:14:45,740 --> 00:14:52,019 crap, that's terrifying. Moving on. As the truck got closer and closer, whatever this thing 158 00:14:52,020 --> 00:14:58,939 was stood up. It was kind of crouched over the deer on the side of the road. It stood up. And what 159 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:04,539 the truck driver realized he's driving along, knows Pete. And this thing, whatever it was, was 160 00:15:04,539 --> 00:15:11,419 covered in fur, had kind of long claws, and it was taller than the hood 161 00:15:11,420 --> 00:15:18,059 of a long nosed Pete. Okay, anybody that's ever stood next to one knows that's pretty tall. We're. 162 00:15:18,060 --> 00:15:25,059 We're talking Yao Ming here. We're not talking. You know, Damon Stoudamire. Anyway, the creature 163

00:15:25,059 --> 00:15:30,978 stands up and and what the driver said was it made eye contact with me. It did not look at the 164 00:15:30,979 --> 00:15:37,379 truck as a whole. It made eye contact with me. And the driver also notes in this account that 165 00:15:37,700 --> 00:15:43,319 he felt like there was some sort of intelligence behind those eyes. A lot of times you see wildlife 166 00:15:43,319 --> 00:15:48,280 out there and you know that there's intelligence there for the world that they live in. And they, 167 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,760 you know, they do so well out in the wilderness. But do they know what I am? Do they know my place 168 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:59,200 in the world? Probably not. This truck driver thinks that there was some intelligence, some 169 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:06,199 sentience behind, behind these eyes. And as he approached this thing, whatever it was, 170 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:12,759 picked up the dead buck deer and tossed it over its shoulder. And 171 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:19,799 as the driver passed this thing with its with its kill, very clearly disappeared into 172 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:25,799 the woods. Now, I don't know if you believe in Bigfoot. I don't know if you believe in the 173 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:31,679 Mothman or Sasquatch or any of the rest of the things. The Yeti. Um, there's so many different 174 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:38,199 skinwalkers, right? We've heard about those, but this one in particular was was just 175 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:45,059 so Detailed. I mean, he literally walks you through it. It to me, I don't know, like, let's start 176 00:16:45,059 --> 00:16:49,619 something here. We'll do a recurring bit for the rest of this podcast. We'll call it the Bulk 177 00:16:49,660 --> 00:16:55,499 Transit Investigatory Committee. And it's made up of one person and it's me, and it's just here on 178 00:16:55,499 --> 00:17:00,979 this podcast. We're going to disband it as soon as we get out of here today. But the Bulk Transit 179 00:17:00,980 --> 00:17:07,899 podcast investigatory committee, which is me, thinks that this one, maybe this 180 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:13,900 driver was a little bit tired, maybe he saw maybe it was a bear. I mean, look, I don't know exactly 181 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:20,179 where this guy was because he didn't mention the area of the country that he was in. But listen, 182 00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:25,579 grizzly bears are out there in various places. This guy could have been up in Alaska. He could 183 00:17:25,620 --> 00:17:29,859 have been out in Montana where we'll see him sometimes. I think they might even have some of 184 00:17:29,859 --> 00:17:36,699 them in Colorado, I'm not sure, but a grizzly bear is a big SOB. Okay. And 185 00:17:36,699 --> 00:17:42,239 if it wanted to pick up a deer. It very easily could. The thing is, grizzly bears aren't going to 186 00:17:42,239 --> 00:17:47,199 do that like a grizzly bear doesn't care about a semi-truck. If it's having Thanksgiving dinner on 187 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:53,000 the side of the road, it's not going to care. It's going to keep eating. If anything, it might bluff. 188 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:59,039 Charge the truck to try to get you to go away. Uh, this thing didn't seem like that. And based on the 189 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:05,400 story that I'm reading, this truck driver does not believe that this was a bear. And listen, if it was 190 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,400 a black bear, no chance that the thing standing on its haunches is going to get past the hood of a 191 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:17,199 long nosed Pete Wright. They just don't get that big. Um, but I think the detail that makes 192 00:18:17,199 --> 00:18:22,959 this story is just that it made eye contact with him, and that's probably the most chilling part. I 193 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:28,999 think this was a bear or perhaps a giant person, you know. I mean, listen, I know there's not too 194 00:18:28,999 --> 00:18:33,439 many of them out there, but I already mentioned Yao Ming. You think Andre the Giant, you know, I 195 00:18:33,439 --> 00:18:39,220 know Lou Ferrigno is that tall, but he certainly is wide as the front of a long nose, Pete. So I 196 00:18:39,260 --> 00:18:44,139 don't know. Maybe it was just an elaborate story from a truck driver trying to scare somebody. Do I 197 00:18:44,140 --> 00:18:50,179 believe it as the investigatory committee, I don't know. I'm giving this one a four out of ten. I 198 00:18:50,180 --> 00:18:55,499 don't really believe it. It one being know you're pulling my chain. Ten being I'm never going to 199 00:18:55,540 --> 00:19:01,819 drive down that road by myself after dark. I'm giving it like a four. Okay. Did this guy see 200 00:19:01,819 --> 00:19:08,739 something? Well, his story certainly convincing. Um, but what was it? I don't know when to go. 201 00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:15,779 Who knows? But creepy all the same. Now, this next one happened out 202 00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:22,660 at Walker Lake in Nevada. So now I know where I'm not going, because I'll just spoil this one 203 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:28,259 for you. This one for me is like an eight right off the bat. And I don't think there's as many 204 00:19:28,259 --> 00:19:34,139 paranormal aspects of this story as there were in the last one. So let's get into it. A motorist 205 00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:40,679 describes driving at night near Walker Lake in Nevada. Driving his truck. It's like it's 206 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:47,199 nighttime. Everything's normal. Nothing out of the ordinary. Now it's a particularly isolated stretch 207 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:52,479 of country. The landscape is open with relatively little development, and after dark, the headlights 208 00:19:52,479 --> 00:19:59,119 become your primary point of reference. Now, while traveling alongside the lake, the driver began 209 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:04,479 encountering what initially seemed like rain. I heard the the, you

know, the pocket on the 210 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,800 windshield and heard things hit in the truck and just thought that this is rain. This is what it 211 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:15,759 sounds like. I've heard it a thousand times, but it wasn't rain. It was thousands upon 212 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:22,438 thousands, I would say hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of midges, which is a bug. Okay. If 213 00:20:22,439 --> 00:20:26,598 you're not from the west side of the country, you might not have heard of a midge. We don't have 214 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:30,399 them up here in the Pacific Northwest where I'm from. It's not warm enough. It's not dry enough. But 215 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:37,179 these midges are out and about in Nevada. And what happened was this guy 216 00:20:37,219 --> 00:20:43,899 drove into what seemed like an almost a little bit of a paranormal swarm of these 217 00:20:43,900 --> 00:20:49,179 things. Right? Like, you see swarms of bugs. We hear about the cicadas down in Texas whenever they 218 00:20:49,180 --> 00:20:53,739 show up. Um, sometimes you drive through a big swarm of gnats or something like that, and they 219 00:20:53,740 --> 00:21:00,220 get plastered all over the windshield. But in this case, this driver was hit by so many 220 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:06,660 bugs that he could not see, and he related it to driving during a torrential 221 00:21:06,660 --> 00:21:13,340 downpour and not having enough speed in his windshield wipers to keep his windshield clean. 222 00:21:13,340 --> 00:21:18,900 And on top of that, it was happening to him for such a stretch. I mean, when it first started to 223 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:23,059 happen, he thought, okay, I can get through this. I'll use my windshield wiper fluid. We'll turn the 224 00:21:23,060 --> 00:21:26,420 windshield wipers on, we'll get these things scraped off the windshield, and we'll get down the 225 00:21:26,420 --> 00:21:32,459 road. But no, he had to slow the truck down to 20mph and then 226 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:39,399 finally pull off the road and stop. Now here's the crazy part because he ran out 227 00:21:39,399 --> 00:21:44,519 of windshield wiper fluid in the tank. Fortunately, he had some in the truck. Always be prepared for 228 00:21:44,519 --> 00:21:49,759 any possible eventuality. That is where we talk about the trucking adjacent part of this. He 229 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,159 pulled off to stop because he didn't think that it was safe to drive anymore, because he couldn't 230 00:21:53,159 --> 00:21:59,239 see out of his windshield. And it's dark. It's in the desert. But the weirdest part about this story 231 00:21:59,239 --> 00:22:06,079 is that when he got out of the truck, there were no bugs. There were no bugs to 232 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:13,079 be found. Now, granted, he could have hit most of them. I mean, he is driving a, you know, a big rig. So 233 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:16,519 obviously you're clearing through a lot of space, you're pushing a lot of wind, but if you're 234 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:22,999 hitting that many, you feel like you're going to cut a swath through a larger swarm, but nothing. 235 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,599 Now the evidence is still there. Bugs all over the windshield. But he doesn't hear him. He doesn't see 236 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:33,819 him. He doesn't feel him. They're not landing on him. What the heck is going on. This is like a 237 00:22:33,819 --> 00:22:40,579 biblical plague style thing. And I am. Yeah, pretty scared. If this was me, I would never go 238 00:22:40,579 --> 00:22:46,899 back. I told you eight out of ten starting off, I'm not going back on that highway because it's just 239 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:52,139 not worth it to me. I don't know what's coming next. This seemed like locusts. There's a flood 240 00:22:52,140 --> 00:22:58,740 somewhere in there. Uh. There's boils, there's frogs. I think I'm not super well versed in the biblical 241 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:05,059 plagues, but I do know that locusts is one of them. And this kind of sounds like it. Something as 242 00:23:05,060 --> 00:23:09,899 small as a midge can terrify me. That's what I'm getting at here. And for our Halloween themed 243 00:23:09,899 --> 00:23:16,419 episode. This is just creepy. Now, do I think there was some kind of paranormal force at work here? I 244 00:23:16,419 --> 00:23:23,300 don't think so. As I put on my investigator cap, I think this is probably a big swarm of bugs, but 245 00:23:23,859 --> 00:23:29,099 you're also on a highway where other people drive, so maybe you're thinking that, hey, if somebody 246 00:23:29,099 --> 00:23:33,319 else has cut a swath through this huge swarm bugs. Maybe there's going to be a lot of dead ones on 247 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:40,239 the road or something like that. Nothing. Explain that to me, in fact. Head 248 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:45,119 on over to podcast.bulktransit.com and send me an email. If something like this has ever happened to you 249 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:50,239 before, I do want to hear your stories. We tried hard to get a lot of you drivers on here. I sent a 250 00:23:50,239 --> 00:23:55,199 fleet text out. We were talking to terminal managers and just never really came up with with 251 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,280 anybody that wanted to come on the show here. But I know that some of you guys are going to hear 252 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:05,039 these stories and you're going to say, oh yeah, I forgot. I have one that's kind of like that. And if 253 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:11,958 you do, I want you to send it to me. Podcast.bulktransit.com. Head on over there 254 00:24:11,959 --> 00:24:16,280 and check out the website. Click the link. Send me your stories please. I will tell them on this 255 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,719 podcast. I promise you that I'll even bring you on and let you tell them. I don't have to tell them 256 00:24:20,719 --> 00:24:27,519 I'm scared. We've already covered that.

Now here's my question for you and answer this. If you send 257 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,698 me an email or a text message as well, Would you rather encounter a mysterious figure on the 258 00:24:32,699 --> 00:24:39,619 roadside? Maybe eating a deer, maybe with sentience behind the eyes? Or would you rather drive 259 00:24:39,660 --> 00:24:44,779 through a biblical plague and have to pull over to clean your windshield off, only to find out 260 00:24:44,780 --> 00:24:49,619 that there's nothing around that could have caused what you just went through? I don't know, 261 00:24:49,619 --> 00:24:56,218 man. The one thing about that first story is that guy got to keep driving. This guy had to pull over, 262 00:24:56,219 --> 00:25:02,819 which is all the more terrifying, if you ask me. Now, moving on here. 263 00:25:05,099 --> 00:25:10,818 People on the side of the road. I know you've seen it. I know all drivers have seen it. Heck, I'm just 264 00:25:10,819 --> 00:25:15,459 a four Wheeler. I've seen it more times than I care to count. And maybe it's not always in the 265 00:25:15,459 --> 00:25:20,779 most rural of areas, but I've seen that too. I grew up in the mountains. I grew up where you got to 266 00:25:20,779 --> 00:25:26,379 drive 15, 20 minutes, maybe even a half an hour between towns, and it's not really what you would 267 00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:32,159 consider cities. There are no stoplights in the county that I grew up in. It's stop signs, and it's 268 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:38,598 a lot of people waving at you. That's all it was. And these 30 minutes that I talk about, yeah, 269 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:42,879 there's farms dotted along the highway, but eventually you get out into the mountain pass and 270 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:49,719 there is quite virtually nothing for hundreds of miles around you. And there's a lot of places in 271 00:25:49,719 --> 00:25:55,799 the country that are like that. But this one really stuck with me because I don't think 272 00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:01,640 there's really anything paranormal or ghostly or Halloween about this, other than the fact that it 273 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:07,640 would have really creeped me out if I was this driver. And essentially what happened here was a 274 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:14,358 driver was on a freeway, I guess is what they call it in Australia. Now, this 275 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:20,600 freeway, it runs basically the connecting route between Melbourne and Sydney. And if you don't 276 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,159 know a lot about Australia, the one thing about Australia is there's like two big cities and the 277 00:26:25,159 --> 00:26:31,180 rest of it is just a desolate island full of things that want to kill you. And these aren't, you 278 00:26:31,180 --> 00:26:35,858 know, demonic things. These aren't Halloween related things. These are just snakes, spiders, bugs, 279 00:26:35,859 --> 00:26:41,059 all sorts of weird stuff out there that can kill you. And then on top of that, you've got the 280 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:47,180 elements which also are doing everything they can to kill you in Australia. So take that into 281 00:26:47,180 --> 00:26:52,939 consideration when I tell you this driver was driving down a desolate stretch of that highway 282 00:26:52,939 --> 00:26:57,099 and it's, trust me, there's a lot of desolate stretches on that highway, you can just pull up a 283 00:26:57,099 --> 00:27:03,899 map and look at it. There's nothing out there. And this driver sees like a middle aged woman on the 284 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:08,619 side of the road, just standing there, kind of appearing to hitchhike. But she didn't have her 285 00:27:08,619 --> 00:27:12,899 thumb out. She was just sort of watching him as he went by. Now there's no other vehicles in the area. 286 00:27:12,899 --> 00:27:19,619 There's nothing parked. There's no homes, there's no towns, there's no gas stations. It's nothing but 287 00:27:19,619 --> 00:27:25,059 the Australian outback and one strip of pavement running through it. And here on the side of the 288 00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:31,829 road is a woman. Now, what this driver said is that he still kind of 289 00:27:31,870 --> 00:27:38,349 feels bad because while you might want to stop and see if this person needs help 290 00:27:38,349 --> 00:27:44,149 considering where they are at. This was at like 2 or 3 in the morning and 291 00:27:45,030 --> 00:27:50,469 she didn't look distressed. That's one thing the driver notes in his story multiple times is this 292 00:27:50,469 --> 00:27:55,589 woman did not look like she was in trouble. She wasn't panic looking. She was just kind of 293 00:27:55,629 --> 00:28:01,949 standing there. And I think that's the creepy part about it. What are you doing out here? This isn't 294 00:28:01,949 --> 00:28:07,188 where you're supposed to be. Let the kangaroos and the dingoes enjoy their time out here. You don't 295 00:28:07,189 --> 00:28:13,509 need to be out here. But the driver feels guilty because he didn't stop. He just couldn't bring 296 00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:20,269 himself to. Why? Well, this could have been a trap. It's 297 00:28:20,269 --> 00:28:24,689 something you have to think about. Especially where he was. You so far out in the middle of 298 00:28:24,689 --> 00:28:28,929 nowhere. Cell phone service ain't going to help. You're not going to be able to call anybody. 299 00:28:28,930 --> 00:28:35,609 There's no authorities. What is going on? And as this trucker goes through talking about his 300 00:28:35,610 --> 00:28:42,409 feelings afterwards, that's kind of where it was. He thought, what better 301 00:28:42,409 --> 00:28:47,809 type of bait can you put out on the side of the road than a woman that's just super out of place 302 00:28:47,969 --> 00:28:52,969 now? He didn't stop. He kept driving. Never heard any news reports about anything that was going on 303 00:28:52,969 --> 00:28:58,649 in that area or anything like that. But the one conclusion that

he drew is that this woman was 304 00:28:58,650 --> 00:29:05,569 there to bait him. They wanted him to pull over. Who's they? I don't know, it could 305 00:29:05,609 --> 00:29:10,410 have been the Yeti. For all I know. It could have been some sentient kangaroo that's been doing 306 00:29:10,410 --> 00:29:15,449 nothing but weightlifting and eating other kangaroos for his entire life. I don't know, and 307 00:29:15,449 --> 00:29:21,849 that's the creepy part about it. You can speculate all you want, but there's really no good answer 308 00:29:21,849 --> 00:29:26,909 here. And it makes me wonder, was this a was this a scenario where they were trying to get somebody 309 00:29:26,909 --> 00:29:31,909 to pull over to do something terrible to them? I mean, it kind of sets up like a horror movie, right? 310 00:29:31,949 --> 00:29:36,509 Truck driver all alone, maybe a little bit weary from the road. Been on the road for a long time. 311 00:29:36,509 --> 00:29:41,830 It's 2 or 3 a.m.. You see a woman standing on the side of the road. You stop, you get out, and you ask 312 00:29:41,830 --> 00:29:46,949 if everything's okay. Do you need help? She just stands there and says nothing. And then you get 313 00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:52,269 closer and closer and closer and all of a sudden, God, you know, Crocodile Dundee jumps out from 314 00:29:52,269 --> 00:29:57,149 behind the truck and takes you down, and all of a sudden you're just out in some murder shack in 315 00:29:57,150 --> 00:30:01,868 the middle of Australia, in the outback, where nobody's ever going to find you. It's happened 316 00:30:01,869 --> 00:30:08,749 before. I'm not saying it happens all the time. I'm saying that could have been it. Which makes 317 00:30:08,749 --> 00:30:15,069 it really, really creepy. Now, this one for me sits at a ten out of ten because I refuse to go to any 318 00:30:15,069 --> 00:30:20,629 place that isn't the most populated or the second most populated area in Australia. If I ever go 319 00:30:20,669 --> 00:30:26,729 there. And I got to be honest with you. With that many things on an island that can kill me. I don't 320 00:30:26,769 --> 00:30:31,368 know that the 20 hour flight is worth it. I'll be honest. I bet you it's beautiful. I've seen the 321 00:30:31,369 --> 00:30:35,689 pictures. Maybe I should just hang out and look at the pictures. I don't actually need to go there 322 00:30:35,689 --> 00:30:42,369 and set foot on the island. Um, but ten out of ten for me not going. I, I I'm I'm not 323 00:30:42,369 --> 00:30:46,650 investigating this one any further. I don't want any more clues. I don't want to go chase a trail 324 00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:53,609 of breadcrumbs. I'm just not going. But it reminds me to remind you that you got to keep your head 325 00:30:53,609 --> 00:30:57,209 on a swivel out there. Because there's one thing I know about truck drivers, and that is that you 326 00:30:57,209 --> 00:31:01,489 guys will give the shirt off your back to anybody that

needs it. You are a very helpful bunch of 327 00:31:01,490 --> 00:31:07,769 people. You help each other out. You stop on the road sometimes. Maybe not. Maybe you are at a truck 328 00:31:07,770 --> 00:31:13,169 stop. I know that a lot of you drivers don't like to stop. Um, we heard Stephanie Evans story about 329 00:31:13,170 --> 00:31:19,129 saving a guy from, uh, possibly drowning. And what did Stephanie tell you? Get the get the 330 00:31:19,129 --> 00:31:23,629 authorities there. Get the correct people there, call the police, call the first responders, call 331 00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:28,829 EMS. Whatever you got to do to get this guy some help from somebody that isn't a truck driver, 332 00:31:28,830 --> 00:31:33,749 because you don't want to get yourself into a scenario where you could get hurt as well. And as 333 00:31:33,749 --> 00:31:39,068 much as I hate to say it, there are some really bad people out there in this world and you never 334 00:31:39,109 --> 00:31:43,829 know who you're talking to. Maybe some of you guys have the intuition to look them in the eyes and 335 00:31:43,830 --> 00:31:50,589 say, that's a bad apple, I certainly don't. And so it it just I just want to remind you, this story 336 00:31:50,590 --> 00:31:56,109 makes me remind you of what Stephanie told us, uh, in the last episode. Or maybe it was two episodes 337 00:31:56,110 --> 00:32:01,990 ago. Maybe. Don't stop. Maybe call somebody and who knows? It kind of sounds like if this driver would 338 00:32:02,029 --> 00:32:05,309 have called somebody, it wouldn't have helped anyway, because it would have been 4 or 5 hours 339 00:32:05,310 --> 00:32:10,309 before anybody got there. Uh, because this is one of those stretches of Australia that you just 340 00:32:10,310 --> 00:32:17,188 don't go to, or could have been a ghost, could have been just he walked up to her 341 00:32:17,189 --> 00:32:22,609 memory. Okay. And she passes right through her. Um, that's enough for me to get back in the truck and 342 00:32:22,609 --> 00:32:28,529 drive across the Atlantic, across the Pacific, and right back here to the Pacific Northwest, where I 343 00:32:28,530 --> 00:32:34,170 call home. No. Thank you. Not going. We're going to take a quick break here and let you guys sit with 344 00:32:34,170 --> 00:32:39,530 that for a minute. When I come back, I've got some more stories. I've got some urban legends, and I 345 00:32:39,530 --> 00:32:46,489 have a pretty funny bit of audio for you that, uh. Well, it actually is. Audio of an attack is what 346 00:32:46,490 --> 00:32:51,489 it is, but not a person on person attack. So don't worry about that. It's nothing heinous. Uh, but I 347 00:32:51,489 --> 00:32:56,889 think that you'll enjoy it a little bit, because the officer that was involved here and calling 348 00:32:56,889 --> 00:33:02,969 this in was mildly scared. Not for his life, just scared. We'll be right back. 349 00:33:10,770 --> 00:33:15,929 All right. Welcome back in here to always

pneumatic, never static. Uh, this is our Halloween 350 00:33:15,930 --> 00:33:22,029 special, as you know. And I wanted to do the second half of the show here, a little bit different than 351 00:33:22,029 --> 00:33:26,589 we did the first half. We all know that I'm scared of the ghost stories, and we all know that my fear 352 00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:31,629 doesn't allow me to tell them quite as well as the person who actually experienced them, because 353 00:33:31,629 --> 00:33:37,149 I'm dealing with that fear. Live with the microphone on and it just doesn't always work out 354 00:33:37,149 --> 00:33:42,189 as well. But I appreciate you maintaining with me through those first couple of few stories that we 355 00:33:42,189 --> 00:33:48,629 told there. Let's talk about a legend in trucking, sort of supernatural 356 00:33:48,630 --> 00:33:53,670 folklore, if you will. Now, this is something that I've heard about from multiple drivers, and it's 357 00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:59,230 the only reason that I really bring it up anymore on any podcast, but specifically the Halloween 358 00:33:59,230 --> 00:34:04,989 podcast, because I think it just goes so well. And that is the legend of the Black Dog, one of the 359 00:34:04,990 --> 00:34:11,429 most recognizable ones. Like I said, the legend typically begins with a truck driver 360 00:34:11,429 --> 00:34:16,269 traveling alone late at night. Maybe you've heard of this, maybe you've seen this. Maybe you've had 361 00:34:16,270 --> 00:34:21,769 an experience where you talk to somebody who was terrified and they told you that this is what 362 00:34:21,769 --> 00:34:27,849 happened to them. I'd be interested to know. Make sure to jump over to the website podcast.bulktransit.com and 363 00:34:27,850 --> 00:34:33,330 send me an email, or shoot me a text message. If this is something that you've experienced or you 364 00:34:33,370 --> 00:34:38,449 know somebody that that has experienced it. The legend generally begins, as I said, with a truck 365 00:34:38,449 --> 00:34:43,489 driver traveling alone late at night. Maybe they've been driving for hours. Traffic is thinned 366 00:34:43,489 --> 00:34:48,329 out. The highway just stretches on like an unbroken line in front of them, and the only 367 00:34:48,330 --> 00:34:52,648 consistent sounds are going to be the engine, the tires, the road noise, and maybe something playing 368 00:34:52,649 --> 00:34:58,408 on the radio. You know, listening to Britney Spears Greatest Hits, I don't know, uh, but a lot of times 369 00:34:58,409 --> 00:35:04,769 when I've heard this story and one particular guy that came to me years back and told me a very 370 00:35:05,009 --> 00:35:11,929 well laid out story, he was tired. Okay, that's one thing I can tell you is constantly kind of a 371 00:35:11,929 --> 00:35:18,309 through line in this legend, which is why I think it's considered a little bit more folklore than 372 00:35:18,310 --> 00:35:25,069 it is something that's on the books as a

true reality. But you're exhausted. Eyes are growing 373 00:35:25,070 --> 00:35:30,230 heavy, convinced you can make it a little bit farther. We don't ever want to do that unless we 374 00:35:30,230 --> 00:35:36,429 can do it safely. But we all know this is truck driving, so that's a part of the industry. 375 00:35:37,110 --> 00:35:41,229 Then the driver sees something out ahead of them on the road, something that they can't really make 376 00:35:41,270 --> 00:35:46,229 out, almost something that looks like a shadow. It's a dark shape that appears in the road. And at 377 00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:51,909 first it's really difficult to distinguish from the surrounding shadows, at least according to the 378 00:35:51,909 --> 00:35:57,949 driver that I talked to. He recounts seeing it hundreds of yards up in the road because, you know, 379 00:35:57,989 --> 00:36:03,070 he's got his his headlights on and they're set up high and they flash out their ways. What is that? 380 00:36:03,070 --> 00:36:09,388 He thought. Well, as the truck approaches, this figure starts to take the shape of a large black 381 00:36:09,389 --> 00:36:14,309 dog. Sometimes it's in the middle of the road, sometimes it's off to the side of the road. In 382 00:36:14,330 --> 00:36:19,569 some versions, the dog runs alongside the truck, and others it suddenly crosses the highway 383 00:36:19,570 --> 00:36:25,648 directly in front of the vehicle, and the driver reacts instinctively. Uh, you know, slowing down, 384 00:36:25,649 --> 00:36:32,449 trying to come to a stop safely. Anything to avoid hitting the animal without swerving all over the 385 00:36:32,449 --> 00:36:39,289 road, because we know that's not safe. But there's nothing there. The driver that I talked to, 386 00:36:39,969 --> 00:36:44,249 I'll be honest with you, he wasn't getting out of his truck. He was a little bit too concerned about 387 00:36:44,249 --> 00:36:49,849 it because when he drove through, all of a sudden the thing was gone and he thought, I don't know 388 00:36:49,850 --> 00:36:54,689 what that was, but I'm not hanging around to find out in other versions that I've heard, the driver 389 00:36:54,689 --> 00:37:00,168 manages to avoid a crash and recognizes the apparition as a warning. And this is something 390 00:37:00,169 --> 00:37:07,008 that the driver that I heard this story directly from told me clear as day. He said, when I 391 00:37:07,050 --> 00:37:13,590 saw that thing, I'd heard these legends before and immediately what I knew is that I needed to pull 392 00:37:13,590 --> 00:37:20,550 over because I was too tired. Did I see something I don't know. Just so happens that this driver, he 393 00:37:20,550 --> 00:37:25,229 likes the paranormal. He's a little bit more interested by it. He doesn't know, like none of us 394 00:37:25,229 --> 00:37:31,870 know. But he is interested. He's fascinated. But he said, after I saw that thing, I got to the 395 00:37:31,870 --> 00:37:38,439 next safe place that I could pull over. I called dispatch and I went to sleep for a solid 8 to 10 396 00:37:38,439 --> 00:37:45,109 hours because what the black dog is sort of known 397 00:37:45,110 --> 00:37:51,270 for is it's almost like an omen, okay? It's something that you see and you don't really know 398 00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:56,069 what it is, and you're not sure if you hit it or if you just drove through it, or if there was 399 00:37:56,069 --> 00:38:02,069 anything really there at all. But a lot of the drivers that tell stories about seeing the black 400 00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:07,189 dog that decided, I'm just going to keep on cruising down the road, that was just something 401 00:38:07,190 --> 00:38:12,489 that was my mind playing tricks on me, my eyes playing tricks on me. I'm just going to keep going. 402 00:38:12,529 --> 00:38:17,529 A lot of the stories out there that you can read on forums all over the internet, which take those 403 00:38:17,529 --> 00:38:23,129 with a grain of salt, as always, will tell you that something bad happened to that driver shortly 404 00:38:23,129 --> 00:38:29,610 after they saw the black dog. Whether it be a blown tire, they run out of gas because they 405 00:38:29,610 --> 00:38:34,849 weren't paying attention. They get into an accident. Um, they see something on the road that 406 00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:40,209 causes them to stop, and then something befalls them outside of the truck. It's typically looked 407 00:38:40,209 --> 00:38:46,610 at as this black dog you might see is harmless in and of itself, especially if you make the right 408 00:38:46,610 --> 00:38:52,248 decision. If you're feeling fatigued and you pull over and decide to call it for the night. I think 409 00:38:52,249 --> 00:38:57,729 what this thing is, is maybe something that all of us have, but drivers are the only ones that are 410 00:38:57,729 --> 00:39:04,249 instinctive enough to really understand it. Who knows if when I'm staying up late playing video 411 00:39:04,290 --> 00:39:11,270 games or watching movies with my wife, or out at a late Oregon Ducks football game If I've seen 412 00:39:11,270 --> 00:39:17,029 the black dog in my parish, or if I've maybe thought that I saw something that wasn't there. Is 413 00:39:17,030 --> 00:39:23,309 that just me being too fatigued? Is that a sign that I need to go get some rest? I think so, I 414 00:39:23,310 --> 00:39:29,949 think that makes a lot of sense. I think that this is something because I've heard so many heard and 415 00:39:29,949 --> 00:39:36,629 read so many stories about the black dog. I think that this is driver intuition 416 00:39:36,629 --> 00:39:43,629 manifested. Okay. What do I mean by that? Pretty simple. I mean that you drivers out there, you pro 417 00:39:43,629 --> 00:39:49,549 drivers for bulk and spur. You guys have seen so much, you've experienced so much. You've been out 418 00:39:49,550 --> 00:39:56,310 on these crazy rural, lonely highways with no light and no civilization and no 419

00:39:56,310 --> 00:40:02,669 gas stations for miles around. And there's something about that situation that inherently 420 00:40:02,709 --> 00:40:09,029 heightens your senses. And as you drivers continue to build your experience over years and years and 421 00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:15,369 years of driving. What you'll notice is, wow, I've. I'm tuned in. I'm locked in. I notice everything 422 00:40:15,370 --> 00:40:22,289 out here. This could just be something that your brain puts there visibly to tell you. It's time 423 00:40:22,290 --> 00:40:28,010 for you to pull over and rest. Now, I can't guarantee that. I don't know for sure, but one 424 00:40:28,010 --> 00:40:34,809 thing I do know is that when this happens, I think the best possible thing to do is 425 00:40:34,810 --> 00:40:41,529 pull over safely. Find a safe space that you can park and get some rest. Are you really seeing 426 00:40:41,529 --> 00:40:48,289 a black dog apparition? I don't think so. But do we have the tendency as humans to 427 00:40:48,330 --> 00:40:53,968 begin to hallucinate as we get tired? As we get fatigued? Yeah. It happens. In fact, I'm pretty sure 428 00:40:53,969 --> 00:40:59,609 there is some science behind that. So all I'm saying here is, as I tell you, this whole story, 429 00:40:59,610 --> 00:41:05,809 that once again terrifies me and makes me wiggle in my seat. If you see a black dog apparition on 430 00:41:05,810 --> 00:41:11,149 the side of the road, crossing the road Running across. Running next to your truck or something 431 00:41:11,149 --> 00:41:16,109 that is just sitting in the road that you just drove through and you didn't hear a bump? Well, it 432 00:41:16,110 --> 00:41:23,029 might be time to get some rest. Now. The trucking legend seems to borrow from a much older 433 00:41:23,070 --> 00:41:29,549 European tradition involving supernatural black dogs. Okay, so this goes back to 434 00:41:29,590 --> 00:41:35,629 British folklore. There's a lot of accounts of large, mysterious dogs associated with crossroads, 435 00:41:35,629 --> 00:41:42,389 graveyards, lonely roads, and impending doom. Some traditions portray these animals as malevolent. 436 00:41:42,429 --> 00:41:47,229 Others depict them as protective spirits, and I think that's important. The trucking version 437 00:41:47,230 --> 00:41:52,469 retains the connection to danger, but places the animal in modern environments like the Interstate 438 00:41:52,470 --> 00:41:57,669 highway. There's no single verified historical event that establishes the beginning of this 439 00:41:57,669 --> 00:42:02,869 trucker legend, but there's plenty of drivers out there that will tell you that they've seen 440 00:42:02,870 --> 00:42:08,929 something like this or exactly this. And I think that it's just interesting to talk about as we 441 00:42:08,929 --> 00:42:14,929 get into Halloween here. It's something that is maybe a little bit fun, maybe a little bit funny 442 00:42:14,930 --> 00:42:20,889 when you really want to look at it from a logical standpoint. But it's important that we just got to 443 00:42:20,889 --> 00:42:26,169 get it out there on Halloween. Talk about it a little bit. Who knows, maybe there is some sort of. 444 00:42:26,209 --> 00:42:30,930 Maybe it's not even a malevolent spirit. Maybe this isn't a bad thing. Maybe this is a protective 445 00:42:30,930 --> 00:42:36,889 entity and maybe you see it because it's telling you it's time for you to get off the road. I don't 446 00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:43,089 know, I'm telling you, probably five out of ten on this one, maybe six out of ten for me as the bulk 447 00:42:43,090 --> 00:42:49,649 investigatory podcast committee guy or whatever I called myself in the first segment. Um, I think 448 00:42:49,649 --> 00:42:54,689 this is really interesting, especially because there's so much out there on it. If there wasn't, 449 00:42:54,850 --> 00:42:59,009 you could type it in, go to your Google machine once you're pulled over and and stop for the 450 00:42:59,009 --> 00:43:04,049 night and type in the black dog and just read through some of the accounts. Yeah, some of them 451 00:43:04,050 --> 00:43:10,629 are crackpot for sure. Wacky. But others, they seem like a pretty level headed person that feels like 452 00:43:10,629 --> 00:43:15,549 maybe they saw something and took that as maybe a notice that they were getting too tired and 453 00:43:15,550 --> 00:43:20,109 pulled over. That's that's a perfectly logical thing to do. I don't know what that was. It looked 454 00:43:20,110 --> 00:43:25,709 like a German shepherd with red eyes, but it was all black and it turned into mist. When I drove 455 00:43:25,709 --> 00:43:32,270 through it. That probably wasn't there. I probably need some rest. It's pretty easy math, but 456 00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:38,429 always interesting, especially on our spooky Halloween episode. Uh, moving on from the Black Dog, 457 00:43:38,429 --> 00:43:44,069 I do want to talk about Hollywood's war on truck drivers for a little bit, since we're talking 458 00:43:44,070 --> 00:43:50,708 about the spooky, the macabre, the the unexplained. Um, basically, I kind of told you 459 00:43:50,709 --> 00:43:55,989 earlier that Hollywood is always kind of painted. The truck driver is the villain. I mean, first and 460 00:43:55,990 --> 00:44:00,989 foremost, they don't really give a lot of play to the truck drivers. I mean, it's been a long time 461 00:44:00,990 --> 00:44:06,009 since I've seen a good trucking movie. We all know about Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy and these 462 00:44:06,010 --> 00:44:12,770 things, but, uh, a lot of the more popular ones kind of shaped either the truck itself 463 00:44:12,770 --> 00:44:18,569 or the driver as a bit of a villain. I talked to you a little bit about joyride, two brothers 464 00:44:18,570 --> 00:44:23,810 traveling across the country when they decide to have some fun with the CB radio. And, uh, listen, if 465 00:44:23,810 --> 00:44:28,169

you've been doing this job for 20, 30 years, that might be something you've done yourself. But once 466 00:44:28,169 --> 00:44:33,408 you've watched this movie, it might be something you reconsider. One brother impersonates a woman 467 00:44:33,449 --> 00:44:39,009 using the handle Candy cane and begins flirting with a trucker known as Rusty Nail. The prank 468 00:44:39,050 --> 00:44:43,728 escalates when they arrange for Rusty Nail to meet the fictional woman at the hotel, which would 469 00:44:43,729 --> 00:44:49,249 only happen in Hollywood movies. Instead, he encounters an unsuspecting man who becomes the 470 00:44:49,250 --> 00:44:54,929 victim of Rusty Nails rage. The trucker then begins stalking and terrorizing the brothers, 471 00:44:54,930 --> 00:45:01,489 turning what started as a stupid joke into a life threatening situation. This is what happens when 472 00:45:01,489 --> 00:45:07,110 somebody takes a CB prank. Way, way too far. Imagine how quickly the whole thing might have ended if 473 00:45:07,110 --> 00:45:14,110 everyone had simply turned off. Channel 19. Paul Walker. Steve Zahn. It's a good movie. If you 474 00:45:14,110 --> 00:45:20,509 haven't seen it, it's a great watch. Uh, over your Halloween, uh, you know, weekend week, whatever it is. 475 00:45:20,550 --> 00:45:25,629 Um, but definitely one where I think, hey, man, like, I know a lot of truck drivers. I don't know any of 476 00:45:25,629 --> 00:45:31,309 them that would get this upset about this whole scenario. Uh, but, hey, Hollywood's great at blowing 477 00:45:31,350 --> 00:45:36,429 things out of proportion. How about breakdown? Jeff and Amy Taylor are traveling through the American 478 00:45:36,429 --> 00:45:42,229 Southwest, which is the creepy part of the country, if I must say that. I mean, I know the Appalachians. 479 00:45:42,230 --> 00:45:48,549 I know the Pacific Northwest, but the American Southwest is just desolate. There's nothing for so 480 00:45:48,629 --> 00:45:54,548 far and so long. And that kind of lends itself to being a little bit creepy. Uh, they're traveling 481 00:45:54,549 --> 00:45:58,829 through the American Southwest. When their vehicle breaks down, a trucker offers to take Amy to a 482 00:45:58,830 --> 00:46:05,769 nearby diner to get help while Jeff stays behind. I don't like either option here. Amy, you shouldn't 483 00:46:05,769 --> 00:46:10,289 go riding with a stranger, Jeff. You probably shouldn't leave her with a stranger. You know what 484 00:46:10,290 --> 00:46:15,489 you could do? You could lock the car and leave it on the side of the road, and you both get into the 485 00:46:15,489 --> 00:46:22,249 truck. Cab. Okay, that's just me spitballing here, but after Jeff gets the vehicle 486 00:46:22,249 --> 00:46:28,168 running, finally he discovers Amy has vanished. Yeah. Imagine that. It's a movie. Uh, worse when he 487 00:46:28,169 --> 00:46:34,808 locates the truck driver. The man denies ever having met either of them. Jeff gradually

uncovers 488 00:46:34,809 --> 00:46:39,809 a criminal operation involving motorists who have been deliberately targeted. What begins as an 489 00:46:39,810 --> 00:46:45,649 ordinary breakdown turns into a desperate effort to rescue his wife. And this is arguably the most 490 00:46:45,649 --> 00:46:50,489 frightening of all of these movies I'm going to tell you about, because the basic premise doesn't 491 00:46:50,490 --> 00:46:56,968 require anything supernatural or any kind of just lunatic truck driver. There are crime rings in 492 00:46:56,969 --> 00:47:01,389 this country. There is human trafficking in this country. This type of stuff could technically 493 00:47:01,389 --> 00:47:07,429 happen, which is why I think breakdown is is a good movie, but it's also one that, again, kind of 494 00:47:07,470 --> 00:47:13,310 paints the trucker as a villain. And I got a soft spot for you guys. I don't really like that. Um, we 495 00:47:13,310 --> 00:47:18,829 could get a little goofier here with this one. How about maximum overdrive? Earth passes through the 496 00:47:18,830 --> 00:47:25,590 tail of a mysterious comment. Comet. Excuse me. And machines begin developing minds of their 497 00:47:25,590 --> 00:47:30,549 own. This is just. I mean, this is right out of a Stephen King novel and right down the strike zone 498 00:47:30,549 --> 00:47:36,469 for 1980s. Uh, unfortunately, the minds that these machines develop are murderous. Trucks, vending 499 00:47:36,469 --> 00:47:41,029 machines, lawn equipment, and other mechanical devices turn against humanity, and a group of 500 00:47:41,029 --> 00:47:46,629 survivors becomes trapped at a truck stop, or a fleet of possessed trucks effectively holds them 501 00:47:46,629 --> 00:47:52,789 hostage. The most recognizable vehicle is a truck sporting a giant Green Goblin face. You may have 502 00:47:52,790 --> 00:47:58,669 seen that one before. Eventually, the survivors attempt to escape the mechanical uprising, and I'm 503 00:47:58,669 --> 00:48:02,889 going to leave the end of it to you because it's a Stephen King movie. It was well received when it 504 00:48:02,889 --> 00:48:09,249 came out. It probably doesn't hold up very well in 2026, but very little that Stephen King does ever 505 00:48:09,249 --> 00:48:14,129 really holds up when you think about it. He's kind of that pushed the boundaries guy, and then once 506 00:48:14,129 --> 00:48:18,369 he pushes the boundaries, everybody else pushes them further, and we wait for another ten years 507 00:48:18,370 --> 00:48:23,690 for Stephen King to do it again. Uh, what would happen if Bolt's entire fleet became self-aware? I 508 00:48:23,690 --> 00:48:28,049 feel like it would just continue driving the products to where they needed to go, getting them 509 00:48:28,050 --> 00:48:33,250 there on time, getting them there safely, and maybe cracking a joke or two. That's just what I would 510 00:48:33,250 --> 00:48:38,529 say. I don't know if that's right, but, uh, I mean,

they would immediately demand that the 511 00:48:38,530 --> 00:48:43,408 maintenance stay as high level as it already is. They would go right to Brad and they would say, 512 00:48:43,409 --> 00:48:49,770 hey, what you're doing, we like it. Uh, but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. No comets 513 00:48:49,850 --> 00:48:55,370 that we're going to travel through their tail or are currently being forecast by NASA, as far as I 514 00:48:55,370 --> 00:49:01,789 know. Of course, they don't do forecasts, but I digress. Uh, the last one I've got for you is dual. 515 00:49:02,270 --> 00:49:07,070 A traveling salesman named David Mann is driving through California when he passes a slow moving 516 00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:12,789 tanker truck. That seemingly ordinary maneuver triggers a terrifying confrontation. The truck 517 00:49:12,790 --> 00:49:17,629 begins pursuing him, repeatedly threatening him on the highway. The driver remains largely unseen, 518 00:49:17,629 --> 00:49:23,909 making the truck itself feel like the villain. Man tries to escape, but the truck keeps returning. The 519 00:49:23,909 --> 00:49:29,749 story culminates in a desperate confrontation, in which man uses his car to send the truck over a 520 00:49:29,749 --> 00:49:35,229 cliff. This whole movie is essentially an extreme example of somebody taking a passing maneuver 521 00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:42,229 personally, and I you know what? I'm. I'm not a road rager, but I get it. And, um, just I don't 522 00:49:42,269 --> 00:49:48,990 know, once again, I don't really think dual holds up, uh, here in 2026, but maybe all I'm asking 523 00:49:48,990 --> 00:49:55,509 Hollywood is can we get a 2026, maybe a thriller or a horror movie where the truck or the truck 524 00:49:55,510 --> 00:50:01,369 driver is the hero and not the villain here. Uh, because this is just like I said, it's an all out 525 00:50:01,370 --> 00:50:06,569 war on truck drivers, and I don't understand why. Where do you think your cameras come from? I've 526 00:50:06,570 --> 00:50:12,050 seen a Hollywood movie sets. And guess what? They have a lot of flatbed trucking trailers out there 527 00:50:12,050 --> 00:50:17,928 that they use to actually help film. And you can't have a good car chase without a semi truck 528 00:50:17,929 --> 00:50:24,609 involved because we've all driven on a highway and we understand that's where you find them. So 529 00:50:24,610 --> 00:50:31,129 just, you know, from my $0.02 here, Hollywood, quit it. Uh, for each movie, I think that, uh, you can 530 00:50:31,129 --> 00:50:36,648 watch it again. I think maximum overdrive breakdown, joyride. I would stay away from duel. 531 00:50:36,649 --> 00:50:43,370 That one's just weird. Well, they're all weird, but once again, it's Halloween. I digress. Uh, that's 532 00:50:43,370 --> 00:50:48,249 just about all I have for you here, but I wanted to end on a funny note today, because our 533 00:50:48,249 --> 00:50:52,850 Halloween episodes are always sort of fun. That's kind of the idea behind it. We're not talking a 534 00:50:52,850 --> 00:50:57,549 lot of serious trucking. We're not talking safety Today, we're just kind of bouncing around 535 00:50:57,550 --> 00:51:03,310 different ideas and scary stories to tell around the campfire. And asking why Hollywood has such a 536 00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:09,909 trope has such trouble with the trucking industry. Um, but I guess you could build this as 537 00:51:09,909 --> 00:51:15,388 terrifying for the guy involved. Not really. How I'm going to take you out today is something kind 538 00:51:15,389 --> 00:51:20,149 of unique that we've never really done before, but I love this clip so much that I have to play it 539 00:51:20,149 --> 00:51:24,948 for you. Before I tell you what it is, I want to say. Thanks for tuning in today to our Halloween 540 00:51:24,949 --> 00:51:30,590 special, I had fun, I hope you guys had fun. If you learned something, let me know by going over to 541 00:51:30,629 --> 00:51:37,549 podcast.bulktransit.com and shoot me an email, but definitely get your quiz in for this one. There should be 542 00:51:37,550 --> 00:51:43,069 some fun stuff on the quiz, and you don't have to get any of the answers right just to get entered 543 00:51:43,070 --> 00:51:49,909 for our $400 Amazon gift card drawing. But what I'm going to take you out on today is a clip. 544 00:51:49,909 --> 00:51:54,609 Maybe some of you have heard it before. This could be a little more Thanksgiving themed that 545 00:51:54,610 --> 00:51:59,929 Halloween themed. But I want to put myself in these this police officer's shoes for a minute 546 00:51:59,929 --> 00:52:06,929 and just kind of talk about when a good deed just went awry on him. All right. Basically, what happens 547 00:52:06,930 --> 00:52:13,849 here is this cop sees a turkey in the road, and he kind of flashes his lights at it a 548 00:52:13,850 --> 00:52:17,449 little bit to try to get the turkey out of the road so that somebody doesn't come along and turn 549 00:52:17,449 --> 00:52:24,050 this thing into just wind and feathers and what transpires. Yeah. I guess if you're in a Stephen 550 00:52:24,050 --> 00:52:28,929 King movie, if you live in the world of Stephen King, this could start out a Stephen King movie if 551 00:52:28,929 --> 00:52:34,769 it became much more fantastic and terrifying. What actually happens is a pretty funny clip of a 552 00:52:34,769 --> 00:52:39,489 turkey attacking a police car. Thank you all for being here with me today on this episode of 553 00:52:39,489 --> 00:52:44,849 Always Pneumatic, never Static. Be safe out there, both drivers and spur drivers as well. Come to 554 00:52:44,850 --> 00:52:49,009 think of it, we will see you all next week for another hour of content right here from always 555 00:52:49,010 --> 00:52:54,268 pneumatic, never static. Happy Halloween everybody. Enjoy. 333. Go ahead, 556 00:52:56,270 --> 00:53:02,789 Turkey, attacking my cruiser. 33. One. Three. 33. Please take video. 557 00:53:03,950 --> 00:53:10,389 Ten. Four. He has no fear. 333. 420 I am on 558 00:53:10,389 --> 00:53:17,310 evergreen at Hay Meadow in Grand Chute. Tawny. Need backup. I don't know what they're 559 00:53:17,310 --> 00:53:22,709 going to do. 333. I try to use my siren to scare him to the road so he wouldn't get struck, and I 560 00:53:22,709 --> 00:53:29,629 think he took it at a challenge. Oh four. She's playing chicken with you at that party is 561 00:53:29,629 --> 00:53:35,789 good. I'm trying to de-escalate negotiating. He is hacking at my tire. 562 00:53:36,509 --> 00:53:43,389 43. I'm in a foot pursuit. Eastbound mail. I am about 563 00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:49,948 two feet tall. Short beard. 33. The other calling. Discretion. Mostly 564 00:53:49,949 --> 00:53:56,769 brown. The red runway trim three five a funnel like This 33333. Response 565 00:53:57,209 --> 00:54:01,849 333. Do You need backup? Emergency for the Turkey Attack 566 00:54:03,569 --> 00:54:09,209 333. By the way, 1045 units on scene at the Turkey attack. 567 00:54:11,730 --> 00:54:17,089 At 333. Final 410 two. If you're holding the towers for us, you can clear them. 568 00:54:18,490 --> 00:54:23,769 The citizens of the neighborhood have been advised to keep an eye out for the suspect. 330. 569 00:54:23,810 --> 00:54:28,729 Stephen King, where are you at? Turn that into a movie. I would go watch it. We'll see you next week. 570 00:54:28,730 --> 00:54:35,370 Bulk and Spur. And that's all she blows for today's episode of Always Pneumatic, 571 00:54:35,370 --> 00:54:41,649 never static. Your number one and probably only Pneumatic Trucking podcast, brought to you by Bulk 572 00:54:41,690 --> 00:54:47,090 Transit. Thanks for rolling with us today. Till next time, stay safe. Keep those lines clear and 573 00:54:47,090 --> 00:54:48,329 keep it pumping.