I Took a Night-Shift Job at an Automated Toll Booth on Route 9 — Then the Driverless Cars Started Arriving
Strange Tales of the UnexplainedShow Notes
Five stories tonight, but the one that lingers longest is a night-shift job at an automated toll booth on Route 9, where a list of rules is all that stands between the attendant and the cars that arrive with no drivers at all. From there, the episode turns inward: a house on Briar Hollow Road that feels paused rather than empty, a buried orchard pit that should never have been opened, a sister who comes home almost perfect, a dawn-facing door that refuses to open, and a knock from the dead that arrives after the grave has already been filled in.
This is Strange Tales of the Unexplained at its darkest and most cinematic: isolated roads, abandoned houses, hidden things under the soil, family-shaped dread, and the kind of impossible encounter that starts with ordinary routine and ends in a warning you cannot unhear. If you’re drawn to nosleep-style horror, driverless cars, impossible thresholds, occult secrets, and the slow collapse of certainty, this episode goes straight for the nerve.
Some stories are about what hides in the dark. Tonight is about the places that look safe until they answer back.
Sources: I took a night-shift job at an automated toll booth on Route 9. They gave me a list of rules for the cars that don’t have drivers. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1v11eql/i_took_a_nightshift_job_at_an_automated_toll/ My New Neighbor is Incredibly Nice. Everyone in Town Hates Him. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1v7hg6g/my_new_neighbor_is_incredibly_nice_everyone_in/ Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Fifty Six - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1i0zeje/sexy_steampunk_babes_chapter_fifty_six/ Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (119/?) - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1jcq5l3/wearing_power_armor_to_a_magic_school_119/ Magic is Electricity?! Part 10 - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1aq8jim/magic_is_electricity_part_10/
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