The unexpected passenger as told on "Monsters Among Us"

Whether you’re a skeptic or believer, there’s no denying that there are some things that can’t be explained.

“The people that see things, the people that experience things, are the people that are paying attention,” Derek Hayes, host and creator of “Monsters Among Us,” a podcast where guests share their unearthly experiences, told TODAY. “You have to be aware of your surroundings enough to realize that there’s something strange going on around you."

In the 1990s, Julie, a resident of Portland, Oregon, was driving out the city to meet with friends when she found herself in traffic. The 18-year-old soon discovered that the cause of the slowdown was due to a dreadful car crash and to her horror, as she passed the scene, she realized that someone had died.

A moment later, “there was a woman sitting in my passenger seat.” Julie told Hayes on “Monsters Among Us." Though she admits it sounds crazy, Julie said she could see a woman dressed in work clothes seated next to her. Though she was in complete shock, the woman in the passenger seat was even more freaked out. “She looked like somebody who just suddenly ended up in somebody else’s car,” Julie said.

Panicked, the woman demanded to know how she got there and who Julie was. It was then that Julie noticed the woman had an unearthly quality about her and realized that whoever she’d passed on the side of the road was somehow in the car with her. “'Ma’am, you need to calm down, my name is Julie and I’m here to help,'” she told the stranger. Julie later went on to explain to the woman that she'd been in a car accident and somehow ended up in her passenger seat. The woman was stricken.

At that exact minute, they passed a clearing in the trees. With some encouragement from Julie, the woman peacefully walked toward the sun, then disappeared.

In completely disbelief, Julie pulled over and convinced herself she’d imagined the whole thing.

Several days later, however, a story came on the news about a trucker injured in a car accident. “Before they finished, they threw a picture up of the woman that was in my car and explained that she had passed away in the accident,” Julie said on the podcast. “It was unbelievable, it was too much.”