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.
curious
April 19 2009, 03:50:48 UTC 8 years ago
April 19 2009, 03:56:09 UTC 8 years ago
April 19 2009, 04:03:10 UTC 8 years ago
Two off the bat
April 19 2009, 04:11:28 UTC 8 years ago Edited: April 19 2009, 04:36:05 UTC
Ghost hitchhicker:
Ghost of Hank Williams
Hold on it's coming
I guess it doesn't matter anymore
And I'm working on finding the one about the kid who buys a car and the car's late owner saves his life...Riding with Pvt MaloneApril 19 2009, 20:00:50 UTC 8 years ago
...I have no idea which version is at all "native" to me. I probably read it in a folktales/campfirehorrorstories book, whichever it is.