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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Marge Prothero's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Beth Shagley. In this variant, a girl is leaving the late shift at work when she notices a truck is following her and flashing its lights. When she gets home, she runs inside and gets her father, and the driver of the truck informs them that a negro was hiding in the back seat of the girl's car with a knife.
Informant	Prothero, Marge
Collector	Shagley, Beth
Date of Original	1972-04-15
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1972
Subject	Automobiles Criminals African Americans
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-AssailantInTheBackseat027

Assailant in the backseat, Vigo County, Indiana

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