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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Erin Johnson's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Micah Johnson. In this account, a man sees a young girl hitchhiking in a prom dress and offers her a ride home. He gives her his jacket to keep her warm, but after he drops her off, he realizes he forgot to get the jacket back. Upon returning to her home, the couple who answer the door inform them that their daughter has been dead for some time. When the man goes to the cemetery to investigate, he finds his jacket lying across the girl's grave.
Informant	Johnson, Erin
Collector	Johnson, Micah
Date of Original	1994-04-11
Contextual Information	The informant states that she heard this story from her substitute teacher, who claims that the events of the legend happened to him personally.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1994
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-VanishingHitchhiker091

Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana

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