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The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle, meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle.
Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost.
The Vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story is an urban legend in which people traveling by vehicle meet with, or are accompanied by, a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing ...
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings is a book intended to introduce the idea of urban legends to the general public. [ 43 ] [ 70 ] Included in the book are such chilling and humorous stories [ 71 ] as "The Vanishing Hitchhiker," [ 70 ] "The Economical Car," [ 43 ] "The Ghost Airliner," [ 43 ] The Girl with the ...
N9 road, South Africa: the road between Uniondale and Willowmore, in the semi-desert area of the Karoo, is the subject of a story of the "Uniondale Phantom Hitchhiker", a girl named "Marie Charlotte Roux" who allegedly died in a road accident on a particular stretch of the N9 on April 12, 1968 (Good Friday).
Is 'The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker' based on a true story? Yes! McGillvary (a.k.a. Kai) is a very real person, and the story the documentary tells is factual.
The third and final book contains 25 stories, including: [12] a story of a man who tries to escape from Death; ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story, as well as a story of a black dog; a retelling of the legend of the death of Oleg the Prophet; a story of an adult-sized doll that comes to life.
The strange car-chase movie 'Vanishing Point' has had an equally strange afterlife, as detailed in this new book about the film and its star, a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440.