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've heard a vague version of the story (probably in Weird NJ, I think) that seems to tie with what everyone else says---person riding, goes to their home and finds it empty or burnt out or owned by parents who reveal person has been dead for a long time. But I have to say that most of my idea of this myth is from the Twilight Zone episode (One of my all-time favorites) though that tells a slightly different tale.
curious
April 19 2009, 14:57:29 UTC 8 years ago
But I have to say that most of my idea of this myth is from the Twilight Zone episode (One of my all-time favorites) though that tells a slightly different tale.
April 21 2009, 01:31:29 UTC 8 years ago