The Midnight Ice Cream Truck

For the third time in as many weeks, I’ve been awaken by the sound of an ice cream truck rolling down our street, playing some god-awful out of tune tin-penny piano music. Because of this I walked five houses up the block to our new neighbors, who have an old ice-cream truck parked next to their driveway.

After inquiring if he’d been driving it around late at night, he told me that he hadn’t because the vehicle no longer runs. He also told me that he too, had heard the music and simply assumed it was some kids thinking they were being funny.

“Maybe you’re right,” I acknowledged as I thanked him and returned home.

At least I know I’m not going nuts as my neighbor has heard the music too. So I decided to forget about it because in the long run, it was small stuff and why sweat it.

Laughing it off as a prank, I mentioned it on social media. Then some one listed only as ‘Unknown User’ sent me this audio file of the creepy-as-hell music.

Kinda left me spooked…

Then, last night, it came again. This time though, the music neither seemed to fade or increase as if the vehicle were coming and going.

Instead, when I finally got out of bed to look, I saw it simply sitting in the middle of the street and in front of our home. When whomever saw me looking out the blinds, they slowly drove away, the broken tin-penny piano fading away with them.

Surprisingly, they returned an hour later.

This time the dome light was on in the cab of the truck and the side window was open and lit. As I peered at the truck with it awful music still playing, I witnessed a clown walking back and forth in the work area of the vehicle and another in the driver’s seat.

‘You cream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream,’ is one thing — but this is down-right frightening, damn it! I quickly went to my closet and retrieved my shot-gun, but by the time I returned to the front room window, the truck and the clowns were gone.

Since then I’ve called the law, who promise to increase patrols and I’ve bought and installed security cameras and motion-sensitive lighting. I fervently hope this is all a prank and furthermore, I pray that no parent would allow their child out of the house to visit the truck because I have an uneasy feeling when it comes to this situation.

I promise to keep you up-to-speed if anything becomes of these incidents and of course, if you see or hear an ice cream truck making the rounds about midnight through your neighborhood, I expect to hear from you as well…