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.
1) Girl gives directions to her house, he pulls up but she's suddenly not in the car, he goes to the door and talks to an old woman who turns out to be her mother, and finds out the girl's been dead for ages. Spooky! (Maine)
2) Girl forces the guy to drive off the road/cliff just after telling him that she was killed in a car accident/hit-n-run. Deadly. (Central valley CA)
3) Kerm's heard: guy picks up girl dressed nice, looks like she's going to a party, she tells him there's an accident up ahead, and as he gets near she disappears, and he sees her body on the stretcher with the EMTs/cops. (Sonora, CA)
curious
April 19 2009, 03:52:26 UTC 8 years ago
1) Girl gives directions to her house, he pulls up but she's suddenly not in the car, he goes to the door and talks to an old woman who turns out to be her mother, and finds out the girl's been dead for ages. Spooky! (Maine)
2) Girl forces the guy to drive off the road/cliff just after telling him that she was killed in a car accident/hit-n-run. Deadly. (Central valley CA)
3) Kerm's heard: guy picks up girl dressed nice, looks like she's going to a party, she tells him there's an accident up ahead, and as he gets near she disappears, and he sees her body on the stretcher with the EMTs/cops. (Sonora, CA)
April 19 2009, 23:48:44 UTC 8 years ago