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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Parke County, Indiana
Alternative Title	The Gypsy Hitchhiker
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Stanley Voit's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Kerrie Davis. In this account, a cab driver sees a woman dressed as a gypsy hitchhiking and offers her a ride only for her to disappear from the back of the cab a while later. When he gets out of the car to investigate, he sees her in the graveyard across the street. The next day, after some research, he discovers that the same girl was killed along that stretch of road many years ago.
Informant	Voit, Stanley
Collector	Davis, Kerrie
Date of Original	1986-03-29
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Parke County -- 1986
Subject	Hitchhiking Cemeteries 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-VanishingHitchhiker070

Vanishing hitchhiker, Parke County, Indiana

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