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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Marion County, Indiana
Alternative Title	Legend of Crown Hill
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Jerry Terrell's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Brian Simmerman. In this account, two World War II sailors are on leave and traveling to Indianapolis, Indiana, when they see a girl hitchhiking and offer her a ride. After a while, however, the girl simply vanishes from the car. One sailor goes crazy from the experience, and the other goes into shock but later recovers.
Informant	Terrell, Jerry
Collector	Simmerman, Brian
Date of Original	1993-11-23
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Marion County -- 1993
Subject	Hitchhiking Sailors 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-VanishingHitchhiker089

Vanishing hitchhiker, Marion County, Indiana

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