1. Home
  2. News & Issues
  3. Urban Legends
David Emery

David Emery's Urban Legends Blog

By David Emery, About.com Guide to Urban Legends

Vanishing Hitchhikers

Wednesday October 29, 2003
A friend of a friend and his daughter were driving along a lonely country road at night and happened upon a female hitchhiker. The woman asked for a ride to her home just a few miles up the road. The travelers obliged and continued on with the woman riding silently in the backseat. As they approached their destination, the driver turned to inform the passenger they were arriving, only to discover she had vanished from the backseat without a trace! Thoroughly spooked, the travelers inquired at the house and learned that a woman matching the description of the hitchhiker had indeed once lived there, but died several years earlier in an automobile accident. Her ghost, they were told, was sometimes seen wandering beside the highway...

  • Phantom Hitchhikers
  • A Hitchhiking Stranger Is Sometimes Not a Human Being
  • The Spooky Hitchhiker
  • The Lady of White Rock Lake
  • The Meshack Road Hitchhiker
  • Resurrection Mary, 'The Most Famous Ghost in Chicagoland'
  • 'The Vanishing Hitchhiker' by J.H. Brunvand
  • Comments

    April 27, 2007 at 1:31 pm
    (1) Breanna says:

    I think that this is fake because there is no such as ghosts

    May 22, 2007 at 9:23 am
    (2) Alex says:

    Well im sorry to say breanna but ur kinda stupid then.

    Scary story by the way, theres a story quite similar to that where I live.

    Its a woman who was riding on a motorbike with her boyfriend to their wedding. They had a carcrash and the woman died, and the boyfriend walked away. Now she hitchhikes but only gets into cars with single guys. They say she’s looking for her boyfriend

    February 29, 2008 at 1:31 pm
    (3) Michaela says:

    I believe in ghosts :)

    This guy was tokin to my mum & sed that me nd my sister could “see” things! but, she didnt know that she was having a girl

    FREAKY!

    SO, i obviously believe it, i see it!

    March 3, 2008 at 4:05 pm
    (4) MadMyers says:

    I dunno, I’m kinda skeptical about it all.

    October 28, 2008 at 9:43 am
    (5) jasmine & breauna says:

    your slow….. i belive in ghost.i’ve heard and seen so many things…guh you betta believe in them things… because they are so true………

    May 24, 2009 at 9:47 am
    (6) tayllor says:

    look whoever said ghosts aren’t real i believe in ghosts my grandpa is one he died when i was 5 years old and i’m 11 so ya go figure even thought i don’t believe in the devil i believe in BLOODY MARY and i’m so sad for her and the reason why is well i always look at myself in the mirror but i havn’t for a few days or letalone slept in my oun room because i did that bloody mary chant now shes haunting my room because during the day when shes in the mirror i look at the back of my door and their is like tons of scrach marks so ya its spooky

    September 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm
    (7) Kikyzz says:

    Hey I’m from P.R and behind my house there are a bunch of new houses, but before that it was an underground train station wich was filled with old cars and closed… Or at least that’s what I’ve been told… Ever since then; creepy, weird, scary and unexplainable things are seen, heard and felt. I’ve been a witness, when I was 13 years old I saw a girl in a black dress and long black hair standing outside the bathroom door while I was brushing my teeth and everybody was sleeping (It was on a Saturday. It was kinda early in the morning). I went back to my room confused and looked at the way my sister was dressed, it wasn’t her! I kept it quiet, but that same day in the afternoon, my neighbor called me and asked me if I was wearing a black dress that day… She saw the same girl I did!!! But… we still have no idea of who she is or WAS… Besides that, a lot of other creepy things have happened… I bet you wouldn’t believe them!!! If you are interested on more stories from my block, hit me back!! Here’s my e-mail… b-girl_xiomara@hotmail.com

    Leave a Comment

    Line and paragraph breaks are automatic. Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title="">, <b>, <i>, <strike>

    Explore Urban Legends

    About.com Special Features

    What is a Recession?

    Sure, we're all talking about it, but what, exactly, defines a recession? More >

    Weird Breaking News

    A daily look at some of the oddest (and dumbest) crimes around. More >

    1. Home
    2. News & Issues
    3. Urban Legends

    ©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

    All rights reserved.