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Title	Vanishing hitchhiker, Knox County, Indiana
Genre	Urban legend
Description	Dwight Earley's transcribed variant of the Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend as collected by Anne K. Reel. In this account, a bus driver picks up a hitchhiking woman and offers to take her to the next town only to discover she has disappeared from the bus before they get there. Once in the town, he stops at a restaurant and tells the story to a woman there who confirms that it was the ghost of a woman who died in a car accident with her husband and children.
Informant	Earley, Dwight
Collector	Reel, Anne K.
Date of Original	1973-04-26
Contextual Information	The baby chickens mentioned in the beginning of this variant seem to have no relevance to the legend.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Knox County -- 1973
Subject	Hitchhiking Rain Ghosts
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-08-10
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2010 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-VanishingHitchhiker141

Vanishing hitchhiker, Knox County, Indiana

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