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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Allen County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Stephanie Simerman's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Josh Simerman. In this account, a cab driver picks up a woman who says that her mother is going to die unless she warns her. The man is startled and turns to talk to the woman, but she has disappeared and left nothing but her jacket behind. The man finds a business card in the jacket and calls the girl's mother, who explains that her daughter has been dead for some time. Moments later, the man hears a crash and the line goes dead. He finds out later the mother worked in the World Trade Center and died in the terrorist attacks.
Informant	Simerman, Stephanie
Collector	Simerman, Josh
Date of Original	2002-03-25
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Allen County -- 2002
Subject	Hitchhiking Ghosts Terrorism
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-VanishingHitchhiker110

Vanishing hitchhiker, Allen County, Indiana

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