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'm from So Cal. The way I heard it, she's obviously in trouble. The guy gets her home ok, then discovers she's left her purse in the car. He takes it back to her, and her mom says the daughter disappeared X years ago, and no one ever knew what happened to her.
So, it seems like a confused kid trying to get home, but it's really a caring daughter, trying to let her mother know what happened to her.
(Of course, there's never any mention about any police trouble that the guy has in bringing back this lame story and item of a missing girl back to her mom, but that's because I'm not writing the story :)
curious
So Cal
April 19 2009, 19:40:50 UTC 8 years ago
So, it seems like a confused kid trying to get home, but it's really a caring daughter, trying to let her mother know what happened to her.
(Of course, there's never any mention about any police trouble that the guy has in bringing back this lame story and item of a missing girl back to her mom, but that's because I'm not writing the story :)
Re: So Cal
April 21 2009, 01:33:48 UTC 8 years ago