Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: curious
  • 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 cat is curious.
Tags: folklore is awesome, ghost stories, requesting things
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geojlc

April 19 2009, 04:05:37 UTC 8 years ago

There was a version in one of the PeeWee Herman movies, but I don't remember which one and I don't remember what happened to the driver... Other than that, I heard the myth in Leslie Fish's Ferryman song. Sorry to be not so helpful... :-)

geojlc

April 19 2009, 07:44:32 UTC 8 years ago

I think I remembered more about the PeeWee one... I think the trucker that picked up the hitchhiking PeeWee was the ghost...

seanan_mcguire

April 20 2009, 00:02:48 UTC 8 years ago

I remember that. :) Large Marge the Claymation trucker...ah, memories.