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.
Patricia McKinnok (spelling is wrong, I know) did one in a southern legends book.
I am not sure if its an original story or a retelling of a southern legend. Mostly the story is a bus driver refuses to take a woman to the hospital with a sick child and both die. Supposedly her ghost kills the driver. Sometime later, a new bus driver is not informed of the story and picks up the ghost and helps them out.
Roberta Rogow read the book and does a song based on it called "The Woman in the Snow". (I think I have the lyrics on hand at home. I know I have a few recordings of that song. If I can find the lyrics, I will email them to you.)
I saw someone mentioned the only other one I know of, the LesLac song - Ferryman.
curious
April 19 2009, 04:53:09 UTC 8 years ago
I am not sure if its an original story or a retelling of a southern legend. Mostly the story is a bus driver refuses to take a woman to the hospital with a sick child and both die. Supposedly her ghost kills the driver. Sometime later, a new bus driver is not informed of the story and picks up the ghost and helps them out.
Roberta Rogow read the book and does a song based on it called "The Woman in the Snow". (I think I have the lyrics on hand at home. I know I have a few recordings of that song. If I can find the lyrics, I will email them to you.)
I saw someone mentioned the only other one I know of, the LesLac song - Ferryman.
April 19 2009, 21:19:30 UTC 8 years ago
April 20 2009, 13:28:27 UTC 8 years ago
I replied directly to Seanan with the lyrics.