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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Ivan Smith's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Patrick Ulm. In this variant, a couple hears about an escaped axe murderer on the radio and is frightened when a truck pulls up behind them and begins flashing its lights. The truck driver follows them home and tells them that there was a man with an axe on top of their car.
Informant	Smith, Ivan
Collector	Ulm, Patrick
Date of Original	1968-04-03
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1968
Subject	Fugitives from justice Automobiles Chasing
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-06-01
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-AssailantInTheBackseat004

Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana

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