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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Hancock County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Sweater
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Michael W. Oellig's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by himself. In this account, a young man accompanies a girl home from a dance and allows her to wear his sweater since it is cold out. The next day, he returns to see her, only for her mother to tell him she has been dead for a year. He finds his sweater lying on her grave.
Informant	Oellig, Michael W.
Collector	Oellig, Michael W.
Date of Original	1966
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Hancock County -- 1966
Subject	Dead persons Ghosts Dance parties
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-07-27
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-VanishingHitchhiker001

Vanishing hitchhiker, Hancock County, Indiana

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