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.
I didn't encounter this at all until I heard about it from you, though before this post. Either that or I heard and forgot it - entirely possible; things like this creep me out, and things that creep me out tend to get forgotten hard (especially true of things I encountered when younger).
curious
April 19 2009, 04:33:18 UTC 8 years ago
April 20 2009, 00:09:29 UTC 8 years ago