He tells of some great misfortune or disaster that will befall the earth before disappearing into the night. In the story’s other depiction, one rarely heard around the UK, the hitchhiker is a male, supernatural being. In some renditions of the story the driver then visits the graveyard where she is buried, only to find a jacket hung over her gravestone. Having been given her address, the driver goes there anyway, where he learns that the girl died in a car crash years before. She sits in the back and, at some point in the journey, mysteriously disappears.
So it goes Someone is driving home at night when they spot a young girl hitching from the roadside. There are two primary manifestations of the vanishing hitchhiker legend, the first being particularly famous around Britain and the US. Puzzle Box Horror’s Scariest Urban Legends series continue with The Phantom Hitchhiker of Black Horse Lake.
Vanishing hitchhikers are one of the most widespread and commonly reported urban legends in the US, a phenomenon which gained notoriety as the title-story in Jan Brunvand’s The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings (1981).
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