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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Cook County, Illinois
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Ron Quimby's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by John A. Plesniak. In this account, a boy meets a girl wearing a sweater at a school dance and takes her home that night. When he returns to see her the next night, her father states that she has been dead for a year. When the boy visits her grave, he discovers the sweater she was wearing at the dance lying across it.
Informant	Quimby, Ron
Collector	Plesniak, John A.
Date of Original	1969-05-01
Contextual Information	The informant states that many people in the Elmhurst, Illinois, area believe this story is true and claim to have seen the girl's sweater.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Cook County -- 1969
Subject	Dance Ghosts Hitchhiking
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-VanishingHitchhiker018

Vanishing hitchhiker, Cook County, Illinois

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