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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Cook County, Illinois
Alternative Title	Resurrection Mary
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Dan Hamen's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Ayrin Carlson. In this account, a man sees a woman standing alone at the gates of a cemetery and offers to drive her home. He gives her his jacket to keep her warm but forgets to get it back from her, so he returns to her house the next day to retrieve it. When he arrives at the house, he discovers that the girl has actually been dead for a number of years.
Informant	Hamen, Dan
Collector	Carlson, Ayrin
Date of Original	2000-10-10
Contextual Information	In this variant, the informant states that the young man never gets his jacket back. In most variants of this legend, the man discovers his jacket lying across the woman's grave.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Illinois -- Cook County -- 2000
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-VanishingHitchhiker108

Vanishing hitchhiker, Cook County, Illinois

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