Mile Marker 41 | Horror Story

The last car out of Hollis never finished its drive. Since 1939 it has stopped at mile marker forty-one for ten gallons — and paid in silver, one year at a time. I'm the night man who takes the money. Original fiction: everything in this story is invented — the county, the town, and every coin. Sleep well. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 The light is not for you 1:06 The job 3:47 Two boring weeks 4:42 The first customer 6:01 "There is tonight." 6:58 The coins climb 8:59 The woman in green 9:30 The ledgers 11:25 The last entries 12:45 Merle's explanation 15:06 The front page 16:30 See you next Tuesday 18:02 The walk out 19:16 The cut 21:03 A landmark ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT An original horror story from The Night Desk. Harper's Fuel & Service, the town of Hollis, and everyone who ever worked the night shift there are invented. Visuals are licensed film footage — real video, no AI imagery (credited below). The narration is a synthetic voice; writing, sound design, and production are original. New stories regularly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO CREDITS Films & footage via Wikimedia Commons, credited to their authors: • "The road to Armazones" — ESO (CC BY 4.0) • "Fly-over of the planned road to Armazones" — ESO (CC BY 4.0) • "Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road-2019" — Faris El-Gwely (CC BY-SA 4.0) • "Reflections-1290631, Leixlip, Co. Kildare, Ireland" — Maoileann (CC BY-SA 4.0) • "Pier HolyIsle waves" — Secretlondon (CC BY-SA 3.0) • "Moths drawn to park lights" — IP49XX (CC0) • "2019-10-04 Veritas RS on Classic-car" — Classic-car.TV (CC BY-SA 4.0) • "Skull Rock Trail at night" — Joshua Tree National Park (public domain) • "Night views over the Mediterranean Sea" — ISS Expedition 29 crew (public domain) • "Morning Fog on Lake BRoll 10s" — Alabama Extension (CC0) • "A quick drive through Cabo San Lucas at night. Timelapse" — Kissmykumbaya (CC0) • "Cars driving at night" — Editor (CC BY 3.0) • "Dream Passage-1" — Rodhullandemu (CC BY-SA 4.0) • "Steam fog – Apeltunvatnet, Bergen, Norway, June 2014" — Frokor (CC BY-SA 3.0) • "Falling-fog-hillslope" — Kreuzschnabel (CC BY-SA 3.0) • "Sutro tower in fog tall" — Cary Bass (CC BY 3.0) • "Raindrops against the window in the night city, Las Palmas" — slavikfi (CC0) • "Street Light Interference on" — Doug Coldwell (CC BY-SA 3.0) • "Het Diner" — Punch Creative (CC BY-SA 3.0) Additional background footage via Mixkit (free license; no attribution required). Thumbnail photo: "Shell gas station at night" — Chris Rycroft (CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NEXT EPISODE Storage Unit 214 — a night operator, a roll-up door that shouldn't be warm, and a hum that learns. Subscribe so you don't miss it. #HorrorStories #ScaryStories #NightShift #OriginalFiction #MileMarker41 gas station horror story, night shift horror, scary stories, horror narration, original horror, mile marker 41, desert at night, ghost car, silver coins, the night desk, road horror, see you next tuesday, creepypasta narration