Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas
Mr. Creeps: Scary Stories & Creepypastas

If You’re Driving in Colorado, Don’t Go In the Tunnels.

September 3, 2026

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A couple driving cross-country in a rented RV takes a detour through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. They see a sign for the longest traffic tunnel in the nation. The tunnel seems unremarkable at first—fluorescent lights, a maintenance walkway, the usual monotony. But after a few miles, the car ahead of them vanishes. The playlist stops. The radio produces only static. The tunnel does not end. It curves to the right, and gradually, they realize they are descending. The odometer climbs past three miles, then further. There are no other cars. Then a man in a hard hat and reflective vest appears on the roadside, waving. Then another, standing behind a roadblock in the dark. When the driver gets out to ask what is happening, the worker runs into the blackness and does not return.

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  • 1 (01:04) **The Setup: A Cross-Country Road Trip** - The narrator and his wife Mia begin their Great American road trip in a rented RV, hitting tourist traps along Route 66 and I-70 before reaching the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
  • 2 (02:30) **Entering the Tunnel** - They see a sign for a traffic tunnel and decide to drive through it, despite Mia’s uneasy jokes about cave-ins.
  • 3 (04:01) **The First Signs of Wrongness** - The couple realizes they are alone in the tunnel; the car ahead of them has vanished, their Spotify stops playing, and the radio only produces static.
  • 4 (06:17) **A Strange Worker and a Roadblock** - The narrator spots a man in a hard hat and reflective vest waving at them from the side of the road, and soon after, they encounter a roadblock with another worker.
  • 5 (09:11) **Deciding to Push Forward** - After waiting twenty minutes with no other cars appearing, the narrator decides the best option is to move the roadblock and continue driving forward.
  • 6 (13:03) **Into the Darkness: Mannequins Appear** - Driving slowly in the pitch-black tunnel, they encounter three maintenance workers who are revealed to be mannequins, and the situation escalates when a pale-faced woman appears on the RV roof.
  • 7 (18:30) **The Mannequin Horde** - As they speed through the tunnel, they find thousands of mannequins lining the road, and the RV eventually becomes jammed with plastic body parts.

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Show Notes

The tunnels hide strange things. Written by: HighStrangeTV

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