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Title	Assailant in the backseat, Sullivan County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Backseat assailant
Genre	Urban legend
Description	This is Patricia Hopewell's typewritten variant of the Assailant in the Backseat urban legend as collected by Heather Hopewell. In this variant, a girl is driving home at night when a semi-truck begins to follow her and flash its light. After pulling up to a friend's house, the girl runs inside while the semi-truck driver pulls a man out of her back seat and struggles with him. He later explains that he has been following the girl to save her.
Informant	Hopewell, Patricia
Collector	Hopewell, Heather
Date of Original	1996-10-26
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Sullivan County -- 1996
Subject	Automobiles Chasing Criminals
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-AssailantInTheBackseat044

Assailant in the backseat, Sullivan County, Indiana

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