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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Johnson County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Robert Cooksey's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Jeff Bell. In this account, two young men come across a woman who is hitchhiking and offer her a ride and a jacket to keep warm. When they stop at a gas station, however, the woman disappears, so the boys proceed to the address she stated as her house to retrieve the man's jacket. Upon arrival, the girl's mother states that her daughter has been dead for ten years. When they go to the cemetery to investigate, they discover the boy's jacket lying across her grave.
Informant	Cooksey, Robert
Collector	Bell, Jeff
Date of Original	1987-11-27
Contextual Information	The collector states that he believes this legend to be true because the informant read about it in a magazine.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Johnson County -- 1987
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-VanishingHitchhiker072

Vanishing hitchhiker, Johnson County, Indiana

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