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True story.
About 5 years ago my wife and I headed down to Miami, Florida from Toronto. As some of you know it is a very long trip, about 25-30 hours non-stop. I had done it twice before on my own and love long trips. This one however was different.
It was about 2-3am and we were on a dark stretch of highway, I think its I95 or I77, whichever goes across US south to Florida. This part of the highway was completely black, no lighting and my wife was asleep beside me. I had my seat leaned back, some music on and had the car on cruise control just so that I don't go over the speed limit. Suddently, up ahead in the darkness, I see a shape of a car but there's no lights on.
At this point I took off my cruise control and prepared for the worst. I was on the left speed lane and what I think was a burnt out car, turned sideways on the highway, I realized that I had to squeeze between the car and the center wall dividing the highway. I had a white, 240SX Nissan and all of a sudden you can hear a loud bang and screeching on both sides of the car. My wife jumped up in horror and at the moment I realized something very bad just happened.
She started freaking out asking what's going on and I started to freak and tell her that we hit something, the car is completely damaged and our long trip (about 20 hours south at this time) is probably over. She asked what did I hit and I told her, I think a car (to this day, I'm not 100% sure but I do have a distinct image in my mind).
She told me to pull over so that we can see if all is well and the condition of the car so I waited until I saw a highway telephone and I pulled up. At this time I felt like crying and so did she.
So we get out, walk around the car and nothing.. not a scratch on it.
To this day.. we both know what we saw, heard and felt however, we can't explain it. Some of our friends and family have said I was tired, it was a mirage or something but my wife was there to hear the noise, feel the impact and hear the screeching noise on both sides of our car.
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