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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Clay County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	James Winkler's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Ralph Norman, Jr. In this account, a man picks up a young woman who is walking on the side of the road and gives her his coat to keep her warm. When he drops her off at home, he realizes that he did not get his coat back, so he returns to her home to retrieve. An older woman answers the door and informs the man the man that her daughter has been dead for many years. When the man visits the girl's grave, he finds his coat lying across it.
Informant	Winkler, James
Collector	Norman, Jr., Ralph
Date of Original	1970-04-20
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Clay County -- 1970
Subject	Hitchhiking Coats 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-VanishingHitchhiker033

Vanishing hitchhiker, Clay County, Indiana

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