a figure of a man emerges silhouetted against the backdrop of the storm and dark

Program Title: "The Phantom Hitchhiker Project"
Description: The road is endless. You've been driving all day and now night is creeping in. The prospects of a storm are eminent. You can just feel the chill in the air. The wind is gathering momentum and you're thinking I should have stopped two hours ago at that last chance for a hundred kilometers dinner. Then as if on cue the storm breaks. It is one of those torrential summer down pours. No matter how fast the wipers flap they can' keep up, there is steam rising off the asphalt from the days sun beating down. Whatever is out there is getting drenched.

Suddenly, a shape darts across the road in front of you. You slam hard on the brakes screeching to a stop. Thank G-d for ABS brakes or you would have skidded off the road into a ditch full of water. That would be a disaster on this moonless pitch black back road. No one ever travels it but it would save an hour out of an 8 hour journey so why not. An hour saved is an hour gained.

At the end of the headlight's limit a figure of a man emerges silhouetted against the backdrop of the storm and dark. He approaches the car so automatically you role down the window to see if there is an emergency. There is none but could you give him a lift. All those warning bells are sounding but, its pouring and you would be a son of a gun if you didn't. He climbs aboard. There is an unearthly aura around him, he clothes smell musty like they've just come out of an air tight compartment. No names exchange he sits quiet as you head out back down the road. No matter how hard you try you can't seem to connect with your passenger. He is surprisingly and completely dry; as if he hadn't been out in the storm at all. He seems somehow distant as if he doesn't belong, that is belong to this time; this era. He stares empty down the road. You turn your head from talking to him to look out the window just in time to see something else dart in front of you. A Deer! Brake and brake hard. You jolt to a stop. You turn to make a silly comment about the emergency braking but he's gone. Vanished. Only the sour musty smell remains.

Tonight on Night Fright we look at The Phantom Hitchhiker Project. Tonight on Night Fright our guest Clarissa Vasquez joins us. Tonight on Night Fright keep a steady hand on the wheel and eyes on the road and above all, watch the road for strangers. Strap in and hang on here we go.

Host(s): Brent Holland
Featured Speakers/Guests: Rev. Clarissa Vasquez

Credits: (C) Muisc, research, text, guest booking, etc. Brent Holland

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