There are a few things in the world that can give anyone the creeps, and getting gas late in the evening is one of them. Something about the eerie, desolate nature of the pumps can be terribly frightening. But one woman is issuing a warning: There’s more to be scared of than just the emptiness.
Meg (@meggbowll) posted a video that received more than 322,000 views. In it, she claimed that she went to a gas station late at night, only to receive a disturbing warning from an employee at the gas station that stopped her from going outside.
A trip to the gas station at midnight
Meg said she works at a restaurant around 30 minutes from where she lives. When she takes closing shifts, she usually gets off of work around 11:00 or 11:30 p.m.
One evening, Meg didn’t have time to get gas prior to a closing shift. She was taking too long to get ready and simply didn’t have the bandwidth to stop at that time. That meant she had to get gas around midnight. So she stopped at a gas station.
“When I get gas, I like to pay with cash because it’s cheaper,” she added. “So I go inside and I tell the man that I want $50 on pump three. Everything’s good. There is nobody else at this gas station, and obviously it’s dark out at this point. The man at the register was nice.”
They had casual conversation for a bit before she walked toward the door. That’s when the clerk told her not to go outside just yet. He saw a man near her car who crouched and got underneath her car.
The man warns her not to go outside
At first, Meg thought he was joking. But the man was not “smiling or laughing at all.” She even thought it was a little creepy. The clerk, though, told her he saw someone under her car.
“At this point I’m freaking out. I’m like, ‘Who is behind my car? Who is under my car?’” she said.
In a second video, Meg explained that she was frightened by the revelation. The clerk told her they could review the security footage, though, so Meg stayed in the gas station. Eventually, they called the police.
“ He tells them everything that he saw. Obviously, we have the security camera footage, too,” Meg said. “The police go and search the area. They don’t find anything. Like, there is no trace of this person at all. So they walk me to my car. They make sure I get there safely. They watch me leave, and that was it. But who knows what would’ve happened if that worker didn’t tell me what he saw?”
Meg issued a final warning: “ Make sure you’re paying attention to your surroundings, especially when it’s dark out, ’cause anyone can be getting under your car, hiding behind your car, trying to get in your car. And just don’t get gas at night.”
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Is this story even real?
Toward the end of her second video, Meg revealed that the story didn’t happen to her. She was reading an anonymous Reddit post. She did not clarify what specific post she was reading in her video.
Despite this, commenters said Meg’s warning had real weight to it. Multiple commenters even mistakenly advised Meg to check under her car to look for a GPS, even though she clarified that the situation hadn’t really happened to her or anyone she specifically knew.
“I would’ve had the police look under your car and see if he put a GPS on it,” one commenter said.
Incidents at gas stations such as the one Meg described, however, can happen to anyone. In Long Beach, California, a man appeared to try and carjack a woman at night—while her baby was inside the vehicle. Break News reporter Tony Lane reported that the man attempted to assault the woman with a pipe. According to a statement attributed to the police, the man then tried to steal her vehicle.
Another similar carjacking incident occurred in Georgia. A woman stopped to pump gas at midnight, only to be approached by a 30-year-old assailant. The woman used a gas pump to ward off the man, who was publicly identified as Jerahn Tucker. Tucker was later charged with kidnapping and simple assault, according to Fox News.
Subplot News has reached out to Meg via TikTok comment for more information about the post. This story will be updated if she responds.
