![]() ![]() In the second form (rare in England), the hitchhiker is male, and supernatural, not ghostly he foretells some large-scale event such as war, and then adds a minor prophecy before disappearing the latter soon comes true, and the driver realizes his passenger was an angel, or Jesus.īoth versions are often told with full belief the first draws on the widespread current belief in ghosts, while the second circulates in more restricted groups where its religious implications are credible. He goes to her home anyway, where he learns she had died years before, in a car crash sometimes in the cemetery he finds a jacket he had lent her draped over a grave. ![]() A car driver picks up a girl who is hitching a lift home she chooses the back seat, but disappears while they are in transit. It has two basic forms, the first being as well known in England as America. A common international contemporary legend, first so named by American scholars in 1942 it became famous as the title-story in Jan Brunvand's The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings (1981). ![]()
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