Encounter at the Haunted Highway

Welcome to true scary story. Most areas have a certain road that is said
to be haunted, but despite the many stories that we hear, few have
actual first hand experiences. Today we're going to hear one of them, and
the bizarre case of a haunted highway. My name is Edwin and here is
Kayleen. It's true scary story. Back in twenty twelve, I had a
best friend named Savannah. We used to go to Crumpoint High School. She
lived in the area. I lived further north, thirty minutes from there,
in a little community called Lake Valley. She picked me up on her way
to Farmington, which is another hour and thirty minutes where she lives also north,
just to hang out. It was a Friday night. I told her
that I would go. I went with her. We ended up staying pretty
late in town. We didn't leave town until ten o'clock. We started heading
back on Highway three seventy one is what we call it. There's a junction
called in five Junction and Highway three seventy one is the little tea area.
We were driving past there after midnight. I was sitting in the back seat,
Savannah was in the passenger side. Her dad was driving out of nowhere.
We saw the police lights behind us. We were confused. We didn't
see anything on the road or any Savanna's dad pulled over. He told us
everything would be okay. I'd probably have missing towel light. We waited for
a good ten minutes, which I thought was also odd for the police officer
to come to the window. Ten minutes later, the police officer showed up
knocked on the window. He didn't even make eye contact. He just knocked
on the window. All we could see was his stomach. That's it.
We couldn't see his chest, his head or would he look like he knocks
on the window. Savannah's dad rolls down the window. He said to Savannah's
dad, Hey, hello, have you been drinking? You've been drinking?
Her dad said, no, sir, I haven't. The police officer said,
are you sure? Who are you with? We thought it was pretty
odd a police officer would introduce himself and be like, do you know why
I pulled you over? But this was just a simple, straightforward have you
been drinking? It was on five minutes. Six minutes later, he finally
asked do you have your driver's license? He didn't ask for a registration,
just the driver's license. When Savannah's dad was looking for his driver's license in
his wallet, I tried to look through the window, trying to peek up
at him. With his fash light, he shined it at my face.
I couldn't see. I only saw his police uniform. Where we're at,
it's usually Navajo Nation police officers. They patrolled that area. He just took
the driver's license and told Savannah's dad I'll be back. Went back to his
squad car. Savannah's dad tried to look in the Reavery mirroor or on the
side marrow. I saw him do that. All he said was what the
heck? I wanted to ask him what was wrong, but I didn't.
I didn't say anything because I got the chills. At the same time.
I finally had the courage to turn around, but the lights from the squad
car was so bright I couldn't see anything. All Savannah's dad said was we
need to hurry and go home. The police officer came back and said,
are you sure you're not drinking, sir? Savannah's dad kind of seemed annoy
and he said, no, I told you I'm not drinking. I do
not drink. The police officer said, are you sure. Savanna's dad said,
am I being charged with anything? If not, we'd like to get
back. We live pretty far. We do live pretty far. Back then,
we didn't have self service either, so quite like an hour of no
self services where we got pulled over. He didn't say anything, just gave
the driver's license back and said good night, didn't write any paper, didn't
even tell Savannah's dad this is a warning. Nothing. We buckled our seat
belts back on and getting ready to go back onto the main highway, Highway
three seventy one. We saw this vehicle approaching from Afar. When the vehicle
passed us, I saw Savannah's dad look into the rear view mirro. He
said, what the hell, we're going home right now? We have to
go home, That's all he kept saying. He didn't tell us why.
When I saw his speedometer it was seventy five eighty, I knew something was
wrong. He told me, whenever we get serviced, call your parents,
tell them to pick you up. We have to go straight home. I
did as I was told, still unsure why. I still have an eerie
feeling. I didn't want to turn around. I didn't even want to be
in the back seat by myself. The next day came along, I went
to school. Savannah was there during lunchtime. She told me, I gotta
tell you what happened and what we found out. When they got home.
That night, her dad called to the shipwreck Navajo Nation Police Department to complain
about this officer the ship brought. Police department looked into it and said,
we had no one patrolling that area last night, but I can call another
department to see if anyone was there. He came back on the line and
told Savannah's dad, hey, there was no one around the area. They
were all on a call towards Gallop, New Mexico. That's where most of
our police officers were. Savannah's dad said, if it wasn't anyone in your
department or elsewhere, then who was it The guy he was talking to?
You said, this is not the first time we have been getting a call
like this. We've gotten numerous calls like this. They all said the same
thing, what you're describing. We had a police officer that passed away in
that area months ago. Back. He went head on with another driver that
had a female. We don't bury our police officers with their badge or their
plate number. That's probably why you couldn't get the plate number. He told
Savannas that I'm just letting you know now to go see what we call in
our Navajo culture a singing none going to see a medicine man. In our
culture, if someone's not laid to rest properly, they have a hard time
crossing over. We would call them in our Navajo language, people that shouldn't
be there, people that have already passed on, that shouldn't be there.
They can take shape into someone you know. They usually choose someone that's really
close to you. They'll mimic their voice, look like them. They'll turn
into any animals. They can just about anything. If they're not laid to
rest properly, or in their lifetime, something wasn't going right. The after
life comes, it usually means they're bad. In Anglo language, they would
call it skin walkers. He went to the medicine man that same night.
He didn't want to wait. That same medicine man told him what the ship
brought to police department had told them. But the medicine man added that when
that police officer took his driver's license, he had put something on there and
gave it back to him like that. The medicine man added that he's just
a lost spirit. He was mad that he didn't get to live his full
life. That is why he has been trying to look for this girl that
he had a collision with. He goes around that area looking for any girls
that were the same age as me and Savannah at that time. It was
really odd. But every time I would try to look through the window at
him to see his face or even to get the badge number, he would
always shine the flash light in my eyes, so I couldn't see anything.
I was pretty freaked out about it. If you know anyone on the Nave
Nation, there's stories that would go around. We had mentioned it to one
of our teachers at the time in high school. She told us her her
daughter in law had experienced the same thing in that area. When you drive
in that area at night, either he would see someone walking onside the road,
Vehicles come out of nowhere. When another vehicle passes, you look in
the rearview, mirl there's nothing. If you're driving by yourself, you would
see someone sitting in the backseat with you. There's a lot of accidents that
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