Rating
Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Unknown Hitchhiker
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Scott Deckard's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Sally Lower. In this account, a man picks up a girl who is hitchhiking and offers to drive her home. Later, he realizes she forgot her sweater, so he returns it to her house the next day only to have the girl's mother explain that she has been dead for two years.
Informant	Deckard, Scott
Collector	Lower, Sally
Date of Original	1984-04-25
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1984
Subject	Hitchhiking Sweaters 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-VanishingHitchhiker068

Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana

Description