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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Martin County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Dave Arvin's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Bart Spencer. In this account, a young man picks up a female hitchhiker and offers her his coat to keep warm. After dropping her off at home, he realizes he forgot to get his jacket back, so he returns to the house to retrieve. The woman who answers explains that his daughter could not have taken his jacket because she has been for five years. When he goes to the cemetery to investigate, he finds his jacket lying across her grave.
Informant	Arvin, Dave
Collector	Spencer, Bart
Date of Original	1991-03-23
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Martin County -- 1991
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-VanishingHitchhiker082

Vanishing hitchhiker, Martin County, Indiana

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