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5 min readScary Stories: Unknown Destination
A man named Jeffrey Willard came home late one evening after delivering parcels, grabbed a hammer from his shed, and beat his wife and dog to death. He told police he didn't remember anything about that night or why he did what he did. The coroner found no explanation. Willard had been a standout man who loved his wife and loved God. The only unusual detail: earlier that night, a local barkeep named Tom Davis had seen Willard driving slowly down a strange road in the desert, ignoring stop signs, with no life in his eyes.
That road is Reverie Road.
The Road That Goes Nowhere
On the west side of a small Arizona town, Reverie Road begins between the gas station and the bar and heads straight into the desert. Nobody knows where it goes. There are no houses, towns, lakes, mines, rivers, hotels, schools, gas stations, telephone lines, or cattle ranches in that direction. The road has no highway marker, no pavement markings. It predates the town itself. After about three miles, you reach an embankment with a bridge that has fallen apart. Crossing the trench is impossible with a motor vehicle, so nobody has been able to see where the road actually ends.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:02) **The Town Legend and the Willard Murder** - The narrator introduces the pattern of small-town myths and then describes the specific case of Jeffrey Willard, who killed his wife and dog with a hammer after being seen driving down a strange road.
- 2 (06:54) **The Enigma of Reverie Road** - The narrator describes the physical and historical mystery of the road itself, which leads nowhere but has existed since before the town.
- 3 (10:54) **The Legend Fades and Returns** - After years of quiet, the narrator witnesses a shocking event that brings the legend back to life: Tom Davis emerges from Reverie Road dragging his son's body.
- 4 (17:54) **The Search Party and a Second Crime Scene** - The narrator joins a search party that finds Tom Davis's truck on the other side of the broken bridge, with his wife's body inside, suggesting the road itself is a trap.
- 5 (21:43) **Officer Yulis's Confession** - At the bar that night, Officer Yulis finally breaks his silence, revealing that he has been having prophetic nightmares where he commits the murders from the perspective of the killers.
- 6 (28:24) **The Narrator's Own Descent** - After hearing Yulis's story, the narrator feels an irresistible pull to drive down Reverie Road himself, where he finds the bridge is now intact and feels a powerful urge to cross.
- 7 (34:03) **The Vivid Hallucination and Escape** - The narrator nearly crosses the bridge but is snapped back to reality by a vivid, violent dream where he is about to attack his own wife with a drill.
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Show Notes
There is a road in my town, but nobody knows where it goes
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