Music:The Be Good Tanyas, "Keep It Light Enough to Travel."
A question about hitch-hiking ghosts.
Almost everybody's heard the basic hitch-hiking ghost story—dude (usually) gives a girl a ride home, and later finds out that she was actually dead way before she got into the car—but there are some really fascinating regional variants. So here is my question for you:
How does the story go? Is she a victim, a predator, or just a confused kid trying to go home? Is seeing a hitcher like seeing the Bean Nighe—you're just doomed to die now? How does it go?
To be clear, I'm not asking you to make something up; I want to know how, in your part of the country or the world, the story goes. Or, if this is the first time you've encountered the idea (outside Disney's Haunted Mansion), I'd like to know that, too.
The version I'm most familiar with, she's a confused kid trying to get home. Nothing happens to the guy except maybe he gets a fright from learning what happened.
I'm in the Midwest, but I'm not sure if I got this version from campfire stories, books, the internet, or what.
And I see from the comments below that there are more versions of the story than I was aware of, so I'll specify that the events follow the same general pattern as starletfallen describes below.
curious
April 19 2009, 03:41:06 UTC 8 years ago
I'm in the Midwest, but I'm not sure if I got this version from campfire stories, books, the internet, or what.
April 19 2009, 03:55:12 UTC 8 years ago
April 19 2009, 03:58:51 UTC 8 years ago
April 19 2009, 04:16:51 UTC 8 years ago