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.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, but I don't think I ever heard this story told (at least partially because I am a giant wuss and hate scary movies/books/what have you) but I do recall seeing a variation of it on TV once, and I could swear it was Unsolved Mysteries. Rationally, it's not - they deal with real-life issues - but that's what my memory is telling me. It was years and years ago though, probably early 90's. The version was similar to above - guy sees girl in party dress, picks her up, gets her to her location, goes back the next day to talk with her, gets her mom at the door and finds out she's been dead since, oh, 1955 or so.
curious
April 19 2009, 04:59:09 UTC 8 years ago
April 21 2009, 01:28:10 UTC 8 years ago