Vanishing hitchhiker, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Rating |
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Title |
Vanishing hitchhiker, Vanderburgh County, Indiana |
Genre |
Urban legend |
Description |
A transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Darlene Beckman from an anonymous informant. In this account, the informant describe picking up a woman on his way to a school dance and offering her his jacket to keep warm. After she disappeared at the dance, he drove to her home, and her father informed him that his daughter had been dead for a year. |
Informant |
Anonymous |
Collector |
Beckman, Darlene |
Date of Original |
1970-11-28 |
Contextual Information |
The informant acknowledges his story to be true and claims it actually happened to him personally. He also states that he refused to go the woman's grave to look for his jacket despite the fact that most variants of this legend involve the boy returning to the woman's grave to find his jacket. |
Repository |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 |
Coverage |
United States -- Indiana -- Vanderburgh County -- 1970 |
Subject |
Dance Hitchhiking 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-VanishingHitchhiker036 |
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