Tales From The Gas Station | Scary Stories from The Internet

June 4, 2026

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Tales From The Gas Station | Scary Stories from The Internet

At the edge of town sits a gas station that runs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The canned goods have suspiciously missing expiration dates, a faded wet-floor sign covers a crack in the foundation where layers of sticky spill have formed a miniature tar pit preserving insect corpses and the occasional rodent, and the defining characteristic of the place is a sweet smell of honeysuckle, ammonia, and vomit that nobody has ever identified. The prevailing theory is that it comes from underground, wafting up through thin fissures in the concrete. It's strongest after a rain.

The Night Clerk and His Condition

The narrator, Jack, has worked at this gas station full-time since graduating high school. He's almost always behind the counter, reading a book because the internet doesn't work out here and cell service is dicey. He charges customers twenty-five cents a minute to use the store's landline, and he doesn't always strike up conversation because, as he puts it, "I don't always know for sure if everyone who comes through those doors is real or not."

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What you'll learn

1 (01:27) **The Gas Station and Its Inhabitants** - The narrator describes the decrepit, surreal gas station where he works, including its mutant raccoons, the mysterious smell, and the legendary "Bathroom Cowboy."
2 (06:41) **The Journal Begins & Carlos's Secret** - The narrator starts keeping a journal on receipt paper and is pulled aside by his coworker Carlos, who reveals a terrible secret.
3 (13:39) **The Journal Entries: A Night of Chaos** - The narrator reads a series of timestamped journal entries detailing a single, increasingly bizarre overnight shift.
4 (17:48) **The Deal for the Body** - After Keefer's corpse is discovered, the narrator and Carlos arrange a tense exchange with Spencer Middleton, who claims to work for Keefer's "boss."
5 (27:56) **Return and a New Crisis** - The narrator returns to work after his leg injury, only to find that Carlos has accidentally killed another Keefer, and the Mathematist cult has mysteriously vanished.
6 (36:57) **The Keefer Problem Escalates** - The narrator finds himself at the bottom of his mysterious hole with a dead Keefer, only to discover multiple copies of the same man in the freezer.
7 (40:48) **Jerry Takes Over** - A new employee, Jerry (Marlborough's real name), takes over the narration, reading the next set of journal entries and dealing with the aftermath.

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Show Notes

Hey everyone! i've finally started the Tales from The Gas Station series!
This has been a really fun project and is a colab with @LetsReadPodcast @CZsWorld @MrCreepyPasta @Viidith22 @DusklightRadio and @WeTryHorror make sure to check out their channels! Let me know what you think and keep an eye out for more to come from this series!
check out the authors youtube channel! https://youtube.com/@thesnakespaw794?si=gC_E3_GM-t09jO05
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