Scary Gas Station Horror Stories
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What happens during the night shift at a gas station?
I was 19 when this happened, and I was working overnights at a gas station outside a town most people only drove through because there was nothing else there. I'm not going to say the real name of the place, mostly because my old manager still owns it, and I don't want people bothering him. but it was one of those highway gas stations with four pumps, a tiny attached store, and a sign that buzzed so loud you could hear it from the ditch across the road. It sat about 20 minutes outside town, right where the highway went from regular two-lane road to long, empty, dark stretch. During the day it was normal. Construction guys came in for coffee, moms got gas on their way to the lake, and old ranchers stood at the counter talking about weather like it was breaking news.
At night, it was a whole different place. The road got quiet, the lights over the pumps made everything look washed out and fake, and every car that pulled in after midnight made me look up from my phone because there was always this feeling like nobody should be out there unless something was wrong. I took the night shifts because I was young and dumb and I wanted the extra dollar an hour. I had just finished my first year at community college and moved back home for the summer, and I thought working from 10 at night to 6 in the morning would be easy money.
What strange occurrences happen after midnight at the gas station?
Most of the time it kind of was. I stocked cigarettes, cleaned the coffee station, mopped the bathroom, and watched videos with one earbud in until somebody came in. My manager Rick was the kind of guy who looked like he had slept in the back office since 1984, but he was good to me. He told me the first week, don't be a hero. If something feels off, lock the door and call the sheriff. The money in that register is insured. You are not. I remember laughing because I thought he was being dramatic, but he looked at me dead serious and tapped the glass next to the little silent alarm button under the counter. He said, people get weird after midnight. The gas station had cameras, but they were old and grainy, and only some of them actually worked right.
There was one above the counter facing the front door, one pointed at the coolers, one behind the building facing the dumpsters, and two on the pumps. Pump 4 was the farthest one, closest to the highway entrance. The camera on pump 4 had this annoying flicker where it would go black for half a second every once in a while, and Rick kept saying he was going to replace it, but he never did. I still checked it all the time because pump 4 was where people parked when they didn't really want to be seen from inside the store. It was close enough to the light to look normal, but just far enough away that someone could stand by the driver's side door and be half hidden by the pump. This happened on a Thursday night in late July.
I remember that because I was supposed to go camping with two friends that weekend, and I had spent half my shift texting them about what we needed to buy. It was hot in that way where even at 1 in the morning the pavement was still giving off heat. The front doors kept fogging and clearing every time the air conditioner kicked on. The store smelled like burnt coffee, mop water, and those cheap hot dogs that roll around all night until they look like leather.
Who is the mysterious girl that enters the gas station?
It was slow. I had maybe six customers between 10 and midnight, then nothing for over an hour. Around 1.30, I went outside with the trash and stood there for a minute because sometimes the silence felt better than the hum inside. The highway was empty in both directions. The sky was clear, no wind, just the lights above the pumps buzzing and bugs hitting the plastic covers over and over. At about 1.50, I was behind the counter counting the change drawer for something to do when I heard tires come in fast from the highway. Not screeching, but fast enough that I looked up right away. A little silver sedan pulled into pump 4 and stopped crooked, almost too far forward. The front tires bumped the concrete stop and the car rocked a little.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happens during the night shift at a gas station?
0:22–1:40
2
What strange occurrences happen after midnight at the gas station?
1:40–3:34
3
Who is the mysterious girl that enters the gas station?
3:34–4:26
4
What danger does the girl warn the cashier about?
4:26–5:05
5
How does the cashier react to the girl's situation?
5:05–5:48
6
What actions do the men outside take that escalate the situation?
5:48–6:51
7
What happens when the police arrive at the gas station?
6:51–8:22
8
What unresolved questions linger after the incident at the gas station?
8:22–1:04:56
Speakers
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