Bloodied Hitchhikers, Haunted Pebbles, and Invisibility Juice

Bloodied Hitchhikers, Haunted Pebbles, and Invisibility Juice

From The Unexplainers by The Sonar Network

March 23, 2026 · 35 min · Season 7 · Episode 4

About this episode

John and Rhys explore chilling 911 calls and bizarre unexplained events involving a bloody hitchhiker and stone attacks in Birmingham.

Late-night drives are creepy enough without a blood-soaked stranger staring you down from the roadside… or something  clawing  around in the bed of your truck. In this episode, John and Rhys dive into a chilling 911 call from rural North Carolina, where a terrified driver reports a bloody man on the highway—then realizes something unknown has jumped into his pickup. From there, they slam on the narrative brakes and swerve into 1980s Birmingham, where residents of Thornton Road endured years of bizarre, unexplained stone attacks. Windows shattered, roofs were battered, police hid in trees, clergy were called in, and still nobody could work out who—or  what —was hurling those strangely clean pebbles. Along the way, John and Rhys compare these uncanny cases to their own brushes with the emergency services, runaway fuse boxes, and childhood stone-throwing mischief, ultimately proposing the most scientific theory of all: kids, government labs, and a misplaced bottle of invisibility juice. Expect creepy 911 audio, classic British tangents, dark humor, and just enough plausibility to keep you thinking about truck beds and garden stones the next time you’re out after dark…

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Rhys

Topics covered

  • creepy stories
  • 911 calls
  • bizarre events
  • dark humor
  • childhood mischief

Keywords

  • 911 call
  • North Carolina
  • Birmingham
  • haunted pebbles
  • invisibility juice
  • dark humor
  • creepy stories

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acast

Places: North Carolina, Birmingham, Thornton Road

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