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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Prom Ghost
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Daphne Coy's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Joseph O. Henning. In this account, two boys see a girl walking home from prom and offer to give her a ride. Once they drop her off, they drive away but later feel bad for not seeing her to the door, so they return to make sure she got inside safely. The girl's mother explains that her daughter has been dead for two weeks and show them her grave in the backyard. The boys later discover a wet spot in their car where the girl had been sitting.
Informant	Coy, Daphne
Collector	Henning, Joseph O.
Date of Original	1995-03-21
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 1995
Subject	Hitchhiking Dance 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-VanishingHitchhiker095

Vanishing hitchhiker, Vigo County, Indiana

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