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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Susan Hay's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Jacque Burbank. In this account, a boy picks up a girl who is walking in the snow on the way to a school dance and offers her his jacket. After the dance, he takes her home but returns the next day to retrieve his jacket from her. The girl's mother informs the boy that the girl has been dead for five years, and he discovers his jacket lying across her grave.
Informant	Hay, Susan
Collector	Burbank, Jacque
Date of Original	1971-05-05
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1971
Subject	Hitchhiking Dance 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-VanishingHitchhiker042

Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana

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