• The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people...
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  • based on the famous urban legend of The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Franz meets a young and mysterious hitchhiker who says her car has broken down. Franz accompanies...
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    the "popular" rather than "academic" orientation of his books, The Vanishing Hitchhiker and others, Brunvand felt that it was a "natural and worthwhile part...
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    debates, advances hitchhiking bill". Casper Star-Tribune. Retrieved 30 May 2014. Brunvand, Harold (1981). The Vanishing Hitchhiker. American Urban Legends...
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  • The Vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, the disappearing hitchhiker, the phantom hitchhiker or simply the hitchhiker) story...
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    beginning in 1981. Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings (1981) to make two points:...
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    beginning in 1981. Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings (1981) to make two points:...
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    Resurrection Mary (category Hitchhiking)
    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...
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  • book contains 28 stories, including: ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story a retelling of the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough a story of...
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    incident happened. In the Mexican version of the Vanishing hitchhiker urban legend, the hitchhiker is a beautiful woman, who chats with a stranger in...
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  • 33 (3): 212–220. ISSN 0737-7037. Bennett, Gillian (1998). "The Vanishing Hitchhiker at Fifty-Five". Western Folklore. 57 (1): 1–17. doi:10.2307/1500246...
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    in the 1950s in the United States. According to Brunvand in The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, the story had become...
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  • hitchhiker #1 Arthur Malet as Male hitchhiker #2 Timothy Scott as Angel Gilda Texter as Nude motorcycle rider Charlotte Rampling as Female hitchhiker...
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    Road: The access road to Loakan Airport, believers claim of a female vanishing hitchhiker (supposedly a rape victim) wandering it. A tree that formerly stood...
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  • Arthur Mayer. The plot is derived from the ubiquitous story of the vanishing hitchhiker. It is similar to Lucille Fletcher's original radio play, The Hitch-Hiker...
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  • Phantom 309 (category Hitchhiking)
    same story. 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...
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    dark, or haunted time persists in modern urban legends like the vanishing hitchhiker. Many times in the night season, there have been certain spirits...
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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by Douglas...
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  • Today. Retrieved April 20, 2023. Brunvand, Jan Harold (1981). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings. New York: W. W. Norton...
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    outside Colesberg (west of the town centre). An urban legend in the "vanishing hitchhiker" tradition arose after a girl named Marie Charlotte Roux was killed...
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  • traveler died there in 1794 without receiving any Last rites White Lady Vanishing hitchhiker Central America and Mexico La Llorona, a ghost of Latin American...
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  • 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...
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  • 0045. PMC 2831261. PMID 19348111. Brunvand, Jan Howard (2003). The Vanishing Hitchhiker: Urban Legends and Their Meaning. W.W.Norton & Co. ISBN 9780393951691...
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    ghost story sometimes taken as an actual report Vanishing hitchhiker – legend of a ghostly Hitchhiker who is repeatedly given a ride to her grave. Chasse-galerie...
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    black Momo Challenge Snuff films The Spooklight Tayopa Frank Tower Vanishing hitchhiker Canada Angikuni's disappeared Inuit village Oak Island money pit...
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    tunnels, such as the Luzernerland area and in Toggenburg. Haunted road Vanishing hitchhiker Urban legend "Belchen Tunnel". structurae.net. Retrieved 2014-07-18...
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    black Momo Challenge Snuff films The Spooklight Tayopa Frank Tower Vanishing hitchhiker Canada Angikuni's disappeared Inuit village Oak Island money pit...
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    This story has many of the basic characteristics of the well-known Vanishing Hitchhiker urban legend, which was described thus by Ernest W. Baughman: Ghost...
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    Carolina: this road is the subject of local folklore regarding a vanishing hitchhiker known as "Lydia". Mount Misery Road and Sweet Hollow Road, West Hills...
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    roads near Kīlauea, but will vanish if passersby stop to help her, similar to the Resurrection Mary or vanishing hitchhiker legend. The passerby is then...
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