My Partner Called Me Down. But Nobody Was There...

At 1:52 a.m., forty feet up a power pole in an ice storm, my partner's voice came over the radio: "Come on down, Dale. I'm right here at the bottom." I pointed my headlamp straight down. Nobody was there. Then, two hundred yards back through the woods, our truck horn honked three times. Our signal. It meant Rick was in the cab, and I should stay exactly where I was. The voice on the radio kept asking me to come down. Hours earlier, an old man sitting alone on his porch in the dark had warned us: "Some nights I see somebody out by the trees. Just standin'." We laughed at him. The next morning, our foreman told me who that old man was. Have a story of your own? Send it to: unlitroutes.story@gmail.com CHAPTERS 0:00 1:52 A.M. 0:36 Twenty Years on the Line 2:39 The Ice Storm 4:57 The Old Man on the Porch 8:12 Walking Up the Timber Road 11:21 Forty Feet Up 14:16 "Come On Down, Dale" 16:52 Something Was on the Pole 20:05 The Lights Come On 23:48 The Tate Place 27:27 End MUSIC Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech) "At Rest", "Clean Soul", "Deep Haze", "Colorless Aura", "Apprehension", "Deep Noise", "Drone in D", "Echoes of Time v2", "Dark Fog", "Ghost Story", "Anxiety", "Decay", "Gathering Darkness" Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. If this story stayed with you, subscribe to Unlit Routes. #horrorstories #scarystories #lineman #creepypasta #unlitroutes