Rating
Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Phillip Edward Vaughn's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by David R. Vaughn. In this account, the informant describes meeting a young woman on the side of the road who asks to be driven home. He gave her his coat to keep warm and took her home, only to realize later that he never got his coat back. When he returned to the house to retrieve it, a woman answered and explained that her daughter was dead. When the informant went to the girl's grave to investigate, he found his coat hanging from the tombstone.
Informant	Vaughn, Phillip Edward
Collector	Vaughn, David R.
Date of Original	1972-10-27
Contextual Information	This variant of the legend is told as truth from the informant's point of view.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1972
Subject	Hitchhiking Ghosts Coats
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-VanishingHitchhiker051

Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana

Description