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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Sullivan County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Janis Biddle's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Mary Susan Wood. In this account, a woman is hit by a car while hitchhiking and dies. People now claim that during certain times of the year, the same woman is seen hitchhiking on the same road. In addition, it is said you must pick the woman up or risk getting in a wreck within the next mile.
Informant	Biddle, Janis
Collector	Wood, Mary Susan
Date of Original	1972-04-01
Contextual Information	Unlike most variants of this legend, this one involves harm to the person driving if he or she does not pick up the hitchhiker.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Sullivan County -- 1972
Subject	Hitchhiking Accidents 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-VanishingHitchhiker048

Vanishing hitchhiker, Sullivan County, Indiana

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