Tales From The Road

What if I told you five military planes, fully trained pilots, didn't just crash — they vanished. No wreckage. No survivors. No explanation. It's December 5, 1945: a routine training run out of Fort Lauderdale becomes the night Flight 19 slipped off every chart and into legend. Radio crackles give way to growing confusion — "we're off course," "we can't find West" — until one last, haunting transmission: "We're entering white water...

What begins as another patrol through the endless green quickly becomes something else entirely—an atmosphere that presses on the lungs and the mind. In this episode, veterans' voices stitch together a mounting dread: movement at the edge of the trees, rocks that thud like punctuation against metal, and a presence that never quite attacks but refuses to leave. It is less an enemy than a verdict, a slow, deliberate notice that this ...

In this episode of Tales from the Road, the host tells the true story of Keith Hunter Jesperson — the "Happy Face Killer" — a long-haul truck driver who preyed on vulnerable women along U.S. highways, left taunting letters with a smiley face, and was eventually arrested and convicted.

The episode covers witness accounts, investigative breakthroughs, and how the isolation of life on the road enabled his crimes, serving as a chilling...

In this episode of Tales from the Road, L-29 and Tadpole Trucker continue their series on Japanese demons by exploring the legend of the Kuchisake‑Onna, the slit‑mouthed woman who asks victims, "Am I pretty?" They recount historical and modern sightings, including 1979 school reports, and describe her appearance, methods, and alleged attacks.

The hosts also discuss theories linking demonic activity to wartime and nuclear trauma, th...

In this episode the hosts dive into Japanese onryō legends, focusing on the legless Teke-Teke and the mask-wearing Kuchisake-Onna. They share a chilling firsthand Reddit account, discuss origins and theories (vengeful spirits, demons, or something in between), and compare these entities to similar American cryptids.

Between analysis and banter, the hosts warn listeners about the power of fear and folklore, tease a second part about...

On this episode Tadpole Trucker and the host delve into eerie Southern cryptid lore — from the albino "Alabama White Thing" and regional Bigfoot variants to aggressive dogmen and boogers, including unsettling eyewitness accounts and parabolic mic recordings.

They also explore the Missing 411 cases in national forests, strange evidence like discarded clothing, theories on interbreeding or territorial behavior, and what the increasin...

On this episode of Tales from the Road, the hosts dive into the eerie world of cryptids—covering Mothman, Bigfoot, sheep-squatch, dogman, woodboogers, and skinwalkers—through eyewitness accounts, regional folklore, and theories about omens, hybrids, and otherworldly beings.

They explore famous sightings and cultural impacts like the Silver Bridge story, local Appalachian encounters, and the differences between cryptids and spirit e...

On this episode of Tales from the Road, the hosts share chilling trucker encounters: a collision in Tennessee that revealed strange faces in photos, an ungodly screech at a roadside, and a persistent, silent figure that followed a driver between stops. Listeners hear firsthand stories and enhanced images of possible cryptids and odd roadside phenomena.

The conversation shifts to shadow people, sleep paralysis, and folklore—from Cho...

On this prerecorded episode of Tales from the Road the hosts — including new co-host L29 Richard — dive into Appalachian folklore and late-night encounters. They discuss skinwalkers, wendigos, Bigfoot, Mothman, shadow people, and eerie mimicry heard in the woods.

Listeners share personal stories: a chilling haunted house incident with knives arranged around a child and a crawling shadow entity, a bright unexplained light and lost t...

Tales from the Road returns with a group recording of late-night, roadside encounters. Host Tad Polin and guests read listener submissions and explore eerie, unsettling moments that happen on the highway, in truck stops, and in the backwoods.

Featured stories include a possible Skinwalker sighting, a stranger who asked to be saved from suicide, unexplained knocking around a cab (and a goose on the hood), a backward-walking man at a...

Host returns with a rebranded live podcast that shares true, eerie stories from the road — from the I‑5 Killer and highway predators to cryptids, swarms, and strange nighttime encounters truckers report across America.

Short, firsthand tales and safety-minded reminders for drivers who travel the lonely stretches of highway: stay vigilant, don’t stop for unknowns, and join the community to share your own spine‑chilling experiences.