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Other variations reverse this scenario, in that the hitchhiker meets a driver; the hitchhiker later learns that the driver is actually an apparition of a person who died earlier. [6] The song "Phantom 309" is an example. Not all vanishing hitchhiker legends involve ghosts.
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. [1] [2] [3]
The song is a version of the Vanishing hitchhiker ghost story, however, the driver, not the hitchhiker, is the ghost. In the movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure , protagonist Pee-wee Herman , hitchhiking at night, is given a ride by trucker Large Marge, who proceeds to tell him of a horrible accident that occurred on the night in question years ...
The first reported sighting of a ghost matching her description occurred during the Easter weekend of 1976, [2] [failed verification] [3] and since then many other sightings have been reported. All involve a female hitchhiker who is given a lift, then disappears a few kilometers down the road, and some have reported car doors opening and ...
The Niles Canyon ghost is an urban legend within the vanishing hitchhiker archetype, about the ghost of a girl who had died in a car accident. The accident is said to have taken place on February 28, with the year varying, and the ghost is said to walk the road on that day every year, looking to hitch a ride to San Francisco.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [a] [b] is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 , it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series , a 1984 text adventure game , and 2005 feature film .
Surveillance footage capturing a "ghost" terrorizing the halls of a school in Ireland is going viral online. The clip, taken by security cameras in one of the hallways at Deerpark C.B.S high ...
The song's protagonist, a hitchhiker, meets the ghost of a truck driver who was killed when he swerved his semi-trailer truck into a ditch to avert a potentially deadly collision with a bus full of teenagers. "Plastic Flowers on the Highway" Drive-By Truckers: 2001 "Push Back The Hands" They Might Be Giants: 2018 "Racing Car" Air Bubble: 1976