Lying in wait on a rural road in Maine
So, I'm not entirely sure what to make of this - I don't even know what to say about it or think about because it doesn't make sense to me, so I'll just share what happened and see what other people think.
So one night I'm driving up to my summer property in / around the Jackman, Maine area from my home in the greater Portland area. In Maine, it gets rural real fast, and in a lot of parts there aren't even street lights or anything. So I'm driving north, past Augusta somewhere, and have been on this road, not having passed any other car for a long time [ I don't know the exact time but it was well past 23:30/ 11:30PM]. At one point, all of the sudden I see these headlights behind me. which was weird because the road was a straight-away so it's not like I had passed any turns from when the car would have started following me.
So I'm driving along and notice the car is fading in my mirror, like - not moving. So I slowed down and pulled over and rolled down my window. I don't know why, but one of my first thoughts is maybe I had passed a broken down motorist and they had been trying to get my attention and I passed, so maybe they turned on their lights to try and signal to me. I know that backroads up there have zero cellphone service, it was super late at night and so my first thought for some reason was someone was stranded and needed help.
I wasn't necessarily afraid of anything, I'm a fairly big guy and can handle my own, so I wasn't worried that something weird was going to happen, so I decided to turn around and go see if the person was alright. So I've driven a little ways forward, so when I turned around and was approaching the vehicle, it was a little ways away. That was when the lights went out. I figured it was just the driver being courteous. So at that point I was driving but as I started to get closer, I started to get goosebumps because...I couldn't see a car anywhere.
So finally I get to where the car [headlights] had been, and literally could not see anything. So I got out because by now I feel like I've gone crazy, and that was when I saw two portable work lights sitting off on the side of the road. It took me a second before it clicked in my head, but the fact they turned on, then turned off, meant someone was out there in the middle of the woods. They saw my car pass and they were turned on intentionally and turned off like a minute prior to me getting back there. I immediately booked it into my car and floored it and got TF out of there.
To this day I have no idea what was going on - but when I sit and think of the 'why's' of the situation, I get chills. Like, what was the purpose of that? What were people doing out there, that late at night? It was like they were intentionally waiting, and there was nothing around so how they got to where they were, I have no idea.
Anyway, no idea what that was, but it was probably one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.