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.
What I always have hears is that a driver gets in trouble and along comes this hitchhiker who helps him out. Then the driver drops him off near town and heads into the town and they learn...nope, sorry that person died a long time ago.
Oh yeah that is from Michigan. Friends used to tell me about rumors of hitchhiking ghosts near the Brighton MI Womens prison. Prisoners that were executed trying to escape. I don't know if they were supposed to be harmful or not, but most likely just trying to get away.
I also had an instructor from Africa in college and he once mentioned that they too had a version of the hitchhiking ghost. I don't recall the specifics, but I suspsect it is as regional there as it is here.
curious
April 19 2009, 16:12:25 UTC 8 years ago
April 19 2009, 16:26:02 UTC 8 years ago
I also had an instructor from Africa in college and he once mentioned that they too had a version of the hitchhiking ghost. I don't recall the specifics, but I suspsect it is as regional there as it is here.
April 21 2009, 01:32:16 UTC 8 years ago
April 21 2009, 01:32:01 UTC 8 years ago