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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.
She still turns up now and again - I remember reading about a sighting within the past couple of years.
Seems that there is usually a guy who sees a girl by the side of the road in a white dress and figures she's had a fight with her date so he offers to drive her home. She gives him directions but stays pretty quiet, and when they drive by the cemetery he looks and she's gone.
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April 20 2009, 00:08:36 UTC 8 years ago
April 20 2009, 02:35:25 UTC 8 years ago
Seems that there is usually a guy who sees a girl by the side of the road in a white dress and figures she's had a fight with her date so he offers to drive her home. She gives him directions but stays pretty quiet, and when they drive by the cemetery he looks and she's gone.