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.
Hmmm, the versions I heard as a kid were a lot scarier... generally the hitch-hiker was male... and by the end of the story the driver was dead. Driven off the road in the same place where the hitch-hiker died, distracted in the rain, or just plain gobbled by the evil presence... Though some variations had the hitch-hiker just disappearing. It was never nice.
Of course, such stories were told by adults to kids to a) discourage hitch-hiking and b) discourage picking up hitch-hikers. Like it did a _bit_ of good. I spent most my late teen years (15-18) getting around on my thumb.
curious
April 19 2009, 03:52:26 UTC 8 years ago
Of course, such stories were told by adults to kids to a) discourage hitch-hiking and b) discourage picking up hitch-hikers. Like it did a _bit_ of good. I spent most my late teen years (15-18) getting around on my thumb.
April 19 2009, 23:48:24 UTC 8 years ago