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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Jackson County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Matthew Conrad's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Troy Stuckwisch. In this account, a poor couple is traveling to see their family for Christmas when they pick up a hitchhiker carrying two large bags. A while later, the couple realizes the hitchhiker has disappeared from their car somehow, leaving behind the two bags which are full of Christmas gifts.
Informant	Conrad, Matthew
Collector	Stuckwisch, Troy
Date of Original	1990-11-23
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Jackson County -- 1990
Subject	Hitchhiking Christmas 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-VanishingHitchhiker081

Vanishing hitchhiker, Jackson County, Indiana

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