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 never encountered it "in the wild" (e.g. as a campfire story), only in books (and Supernatural). That said, the version I've generally found has had her mostly as just a confused kid, with a bit of victim thrown in--the driver comes back to her house the next day for some reason and finds out from her parents that she died in a crash on that road, yesterday, X years ago.
curious
April 20 2009, 02:07:55 UTC 8 years ago
April 21 2009, 01:51:44 UTC 8 years ago