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.
So here's a return question for you: What do you know about the folklore, if any, connected to Disney's choice of appearance for the Hitchhiking Ghosts in the Haunted Mansion?
Darnit! I thought for sure if anyone knew it'd be you.
They look SO like Ghedes with their bowler hats, but what freaks me out is that two of them look like spectres I saw as a child.... long before I ever rode that ride, as far as I know. Same with my sister. So my impression is that whatever we saw may have shared source with whatever inspired Disney.
curious
April 23 2009, 05:22:56 UTC 8 years ago
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April 28 2009, 00:50:14 UTC 8 years ago
April 28 2009, 07:53:12 UTC 8 years ago
They look SO like Ghedes with their bowler hats, but what freaks me out is that two of them look like spectres I saw as a child.... long before I ever rode that ride, as far as I know. Same with my sister. So my impression is that whatever we saw may have shared source with whatever inspired Disney.
--Ember--