A long-haul driver running I-15 late at night passes a wrecked car on the shoulder.

Hazard lights blinking.

A man standing beside it.

He keeps driving.

Twenty minutes later, he sees them again.

Same car. Same hazards. Same man.

There’s no exit. No turnaround. No reason he should be seeing any of it twice.

And the next time the man appears, he’s a little harder to ignore.

Hazards on I-15 is the fifth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

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New nightmares every Friday.

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A new night-shift warehouse worker gets one warning from his supervisor:

Don’t use Break Room Three.

It seems ridiculous until Labor Day weekend, when a crowded break room, triple-time exhaustion, and the promise of a few quiet minutes send him through the door anyway.

Inside, an old worker sits perfectly still, facing the wall. Beside him is a time card stamped with two words:

NO COVERAGE.

Soon, the lights go out, something starts following him through the warehouse, and he learns why some workplace rules survive long after the employees who created them.

The Break Room Nobody Uses is the fourth episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

Follow American Dreadline wherever you listen, and leave a rating if the story got under your skin.

New nightmares every Friday.

Sound Design Credit: “Windy Dark Background Atmo.wav” by szegvari, sourced from Freesound.org. Licensed CC0.

A customer walks into Pump & Go at 12:47 in the morning.

The bell rings. Footsteps move toward the snack aisle. But there’s nobody there.

Then the night clerk checks the security cameras.

The cameras can see something he can’t.

At first, it’s just a shape on one screen. Then it starts moving from camera to camera, getting closer each time. And the longer he watches, the more it seems to learn exactly where he is.

The Last Customer of the Night is the third episode of American Dreadline, a first-person anthology of original horror stories.

One voice. One nightmare. One place you'll never see the same again.

Follow American Dreadline wherever you listen, and leave a rating if the story got under your skin.

New nightmares every Friday.

Sound Design Credit: “Windy Dark Background Atmo.wav” by szegvari, sourced from Freesound.org. Licensed CC0.