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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Martin County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Monte Franklin's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Jean Whitcomb. In this account, a boy picks up a girl who is walking on the side of the road and gives her his jacket because she is cold. She asks to be dropped off at a cemetery, so he waits for her but she never returns. The next day, he goes back to the cemetery and discovers her name on a tombstone and his jacket draped across the grave.
Informant	Franklin, Monte
Collector	Whitcomb, Jean
Date of Original	1969-12-06
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Martin County -- 1969
Subject	Hitchhiking Cemeteries Ghosts
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-VanishingHitchhiker024

Vanishing hitchhiker, Martin County, Indiana

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