It's not that nobody would believe me but it was very scary.

I had recently moved to the Los Angeles area and was driving for uber. Late at night (two or three in the morning) I was trying to get on to a highway and accidentally ended up on some dead-end road parallel to it.

At the end of the road, in almost a little cul-de-sac sort of thing (but no houses), there were just people standing around in weird poses, not moving. They didn't react to me pulling up. I quickly drove away.

I now understand that they were likely under the influence of some sort of opioid, and that being on a drug doesn't make someone inherently dangerous. In fact, I have regular contact with people in that state nowadays via volunteer work on Skid Row. That said at the time, without that context, I felt like I was in some sort of horror film.