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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Clark County, Indiana
Alternative Title	The Story of Mary Ruth Baily
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Angela Hustedt's typewritten variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by herself. In this account, a young woman named Mary Ruth is at her senior prom without a date and decides to leave. A young man offers to escort her home and gives her his jacket to keep her warm. The next day, he returns for his jacket only to have Mary Ruth's mother explain that her daughter has been dead for five years. When he visits Mary Ruth's grave, he finds his jacket lying across her tombstone.
Informant	Hustedt, Angela
Collector	Hustedt, Angela
Date of Original	1972-12-10
Contextual Information	The informant states that she has been to Mary Ruth Baily's grave and that there is a picture of Mary Ruth in her prom formal encased in the tombstone.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Clark County -- 1972
Subject	Hitchhiking Coats 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-VanishingHitchhiker055

Vanishing hitchhiker, Clark County, Indiana

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