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The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle, meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle.
Sep 17, 1999 · Learn about the folklore of the vanishing hitchhiker, a ghostly passenger who disappears from a car after a ride. Find out the origins, examples, and meanings of this urban...
Nov 21, 2007 · The Vanishing Hitchhiker is a scary urban legend about a young girl who is on her way to a dance one night. A boy who is driving down a lonely country road sees her and stops to give her a ride in his car. This story is also known as “Lavender”, “The Hitchhiking Ghost” and “The Girl in the Road”.
The vanishing hitchhiker is a commons international contemporary urban legend that has been circulating for centuries across the world. It involves a hitchhiker who mysteriously disappears from a vehicle, leaving behind items or clues that lead to supernatural or eerie revelations.
Jan 1, 1981 · This book by Jan Harold Brunvand collects and analyzes the best-known urban legends in the U.S., such as "The Hook" and "The Spider in the Hairdo". It is a classic work that launched the study of modern folklore and its variants and evolution.
…1981 with the publication of The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, a book by American folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand. The title of the collection refers to one of the most well-known urban legends, that of a person traveling in a vehicle, usually a car, who meets a…
A man is driving along a lonely stretch of road in the dead of night when he picks up a lovely young hitchhiker, only to find after a while that she has disappeared from the back seat, leaving her jumper behind in the process.
