A picture taken by Mike Pawyza as collected by Richard R. Madura of the entrance to Resurrection Cemetery in Lake County, Illinois. Resurrection Cemetery is a well-known setting for the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend.
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Ann Ledgerwood from an anonymous informant. In this account, the informant describes a woman dressed in white who was killed when her cab got hit by a train. People now...
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Darlene Beckman from an anonymous informant. In this account, the informant describe picking up a woman on his way to a school dance and offering her his jacket to keep...
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Debbie Robinson from an anonymous female informant. In this account, two boys on their way home from college come across a woman hitchhiking in a formal dress. They give...
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Pam Townsend from an anonymous informant. In this account, the informant describes a girl who was killed in a car accident along a certain stretch of road. People now...
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Suzann Messmer from an anonymous female informant. In this account, a man and a woman pick up a man in shabby clothing on the side of the road and agree to drop him off...
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Suzann Messmer from an anonymous male informant. In this account, a couple picks up a hitchhiker but are uncomfortable at the fact that he does not speak to them. As...
Alberta Stevens's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Heather M. Cooksey. In this account, three boys see a girl walking alone at night and offer to take her home. The next day, one of the boys returns to...
Alice Pigg's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Belinda Young. In this account, a taxi driver comes across a young woman in her night gown who says she has been sleepwalking and wants to be taken home. Once...
Allison Lorenz's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Sarah Martin. In this account, Lorzenz describes a woman who was killed in a car accident years ago. Now her ghost waits at the intersection where she...
Amanda E. Vannette's transcribed interiview of Heather Diane Ross's account of a supernatural experience that she heard about a vanishing girl who knocks on a stranger's door after being in a car accident to get help to save her mom.After help...
Andy Vrabel's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Jerry Novak. In this account, Vrabel describes a woman whose husband died while she was on her way to see him in the hospital. Now travelers sometimes see a...
Angela Hustedt's typewritten variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by herself. In this account, a young woman named Mary Ruth is at her senior prom without a date and decides to leave. A young man offers to escort her home...
Annette Dickey's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Terri Dickey. In this account, a group of people see a hitchhiker and decide to pick him up. They ask him where he would like to go, but he did not reply....
Bettie Graeter's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Joan Myer. In this account, a man picks up a woman who is hitchhiking and takes her home but finds that she has disappeared when he opens the door for...
Betty Turpen's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Linda Turpen. In this account, a girl in a green dress was supposedly killed on a bridge in Indiana. People now claim to see her on rainy nights, and those...
Brian Hofmeister's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by John Leinenbach. In this account, two boys see a young woman walking along the side of the road who looks like she's been in some trouble. They offer...
Cathi Ferres's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Janet Wells. In this account, a man comes across a girl standing in a cemetery and offers to walk her home. On the way, he gives her his sweater so she can...
Cheryl Rooney's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Don Terrell. In this account, a man meets a woman at a dance and asks to take her home at the end of the night. She agrees, but when they get to her house,...
Dan Hamen's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Ayrin Carlson. In this account, a man sees a woman standing alone at the gates of a cemetery and offers to drive her home. He gives her his jacket to keep her...
