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 grew up listening to country music and the story in the song Phantom 309 is about a truck driver who picks up a kid and then leaves him at a truck stop with coffee money and when he goes in the truck stop every one freaks out because that trucker died when he went off the road to avoid hitting a stalled school bus. So it isn't the hitchhiker in that song that is the ghost, but the one that pickes him up. And a more modern version of that has Hank Williams Sr. picking up a hitchhiker. If you are conversant with CWMusic, there are lots of creepywonderful stories.
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and in addition
April 20 2009, 00:29:59 UTC 8 years ago
Re: and in addition
April 21 2009, 01:51:34 UTC 8 years ago