Vanishing hitchhiker, Marion County, Indiana
Rating |
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Title |
Vanishing hitchhiker, Marion County, Indiana |
Genre |
Urban legend |
Description |
Alice Pigg's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Belinda Young. In this account, a taxi driver comes across a young woman in her night gown who says she has been sleepwalking and wants to be taken home. Once he takes her home, she goes in the house to get some money to pay him and never comes back out. The driver knocks on the door to inquire about her and the girl's father informs him that she has been dead for ten years. |
Informant |
Pigg, Alice |
Collector |
Young, Belinda |
Date of Original |
1971-10-29 |
Repository |
Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 |
Coverage |
United States -- Indiana -- Marion County -- 1971 |
Subject |
Hitchhiking Taxicab drivers 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-VanishingHitchhiker046 |
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