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The Vanishing Hitchhiker

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The Vanishing Hitchhiker - Norman A. Rubin
(The "vanishing hitch" is a legend, strange and mysterious occurrence in which people travel with an Vehicle are met or a hitchhiker who then disappeared without explanation, often from a moving vehicle without leaving a trace attended.)

The questions over and over again - it was possible for a person who was to be seen and heard one minutes and then disappeared in seconds and never seen or heard of him?
Furthermore, it was strange that it only happens during the dark of night. They usually occurred at a driver through the loneliness of Hour by an equally quiet street. The figure has been spotted with the hand sign of a hitchhiker in need of a ride to a particular destination. The driver with good intentions then stopped and asked the man or woman, where he or she is entitled. "Hop in, goes so ..", as the driver gave the figure a lift. The trip went, sometimes in total silence, and at a later point, the traveler seemed to disappear when the vehicle is in motion.

Throughout the annals of history, legends and have been stories of strange figures, which are picked up along roadsides, and then follow with no one from the interior of the car, from car and disappeared also said from the back of a horse!

This mysterious legend in various forms, is with us for many years. Tales of the spectral passengers (usually rather young and beautiful women) are often on bridges, hills and dangerous intersections, and cemeteries, especially those grounds placed in solitary places. There were stories of "vanishing Hitchhikers "as much to say back in the late 1800s, when men would tell stories of women who appeared ghostlike on the back of their horses. The spectral drivers always gone when they reached their destination and often prove to be daughters of the deceased to the local farmers. Very little has from those days in the stories about the "disappearance hitchhikers" that are still told not changed today, outside the preferred means of transport.

Stories of phantom Hitchhikers have been a part of ghost lore ghost stories began to talk of rapt
Handset. In the old days, before cars, people told of picking Passengers in the carriages and buggies, only to disappear before they reached their destination. Many of these stories there is nothing more than urban legends, from one generation have on the next, but there are others who seem amazingly real ... Stories with reliable witnesses, and strange facts that can not be denied

According to folklorist Brunvand January, the legend of the vanishing hitchhiker legend, developed from earlier European history, usually about travelers on horseback. He stated that joined in Hawaii, the hitchhiker was with the old volcano goddess Pele, who travel the streets incognito, and rewarding way travelers.
And along the east - the African coast the hitchhiker in the version of the legend takes the form of a beautiful girl who will be picked up by cross-country truck drivers: At some point, the truck driver looked at his beautiful Passenger and discovered to his horror that they have a "Jim" and has goat legs. At this point, the girl or jini laughed and disappeared into the void.

The Had been the phenomenon of disappearing hitchhikers in the U.S. and around the world had been for many years, until the present day. What could the reasons for this curious happened? In fact, it could very well a few reasons for these transactions. It could be an illusion by the driver or the driver might see in his cup. Other teeming with extraterrestrial beings, or an actual spirit and spirits, was approaching his place of rest, usually near a cemetery.

Are these stories simply "Urban Legends" with no basis in truth - or is there more to the mystery, as at first sight?
Could one of them have a basis in truth? What happens if something true story of a vanishing hitchhiker as one of many that actually happened somewhere, and then was told, and told to the point that it lost many of the elements of truth, if so, how? As the story spread from a public place secondly, she was found by people across the country and as a part of their local tradition.

Again and again, there were witnesses to a sober mind of a beautiful young girl who had appeared on the street near Greensboro since 1923. She was standing (and possibly related) in the dark of dawn come near the U.S. Highway 70 Underpass in a white evening gown and waved desperately for someone to stop and pick them up.
These hapless motorists who were stopped, a young and beautiful young girl introduced, who says her name is Lydia and she always asked that they take her to an address in High Point please him. She is always in the context with them, that they spent the evening at a dance in Raleigh and wanted to go home. She said her time had come crazy when they are no longer his or her progress and she had get out and walk.
She did not know much about the way to say. When the driver approached the house the girl always disappeared from her car, never to open the door and exit .... She was just there one minute and gone the next!
Those drivers who were staying in the house, were always told to ask the same ... that Lydia died in a car accident many years ago on his way home from a high school dance in Raleigh and offenses against the U.S. Highway 70 underpass.

A similar Story was told that along Highway 48 in South Carolina. Concerned motorists who claimed they had a vanishing hitchhiker in the form of a pretty young girl with a suitcase along the road signaling with the thumb. They stopped and offered her a ride, and she told the driver that she goes to visit her sick mother in Colombia. When she gave the address of the vehicle from its target, but during the entire trip, they stayed calm, did not utter a word.
Then, suddenly, on the outskirts of the city disappeared them out of the car, nor her suitcase was found. A driver who picked them went to the address and described the girl with a man who lived there. He said that it was his sister and that she was devastated by-and-run driver while walking to visit her sick mother. This happened several independent witnesses over a period three years in the 1950s.

One hitchhiker story from Arkansas includes a girl in an evening gown standing at the side of the street, the two college boys on the Route to their annual prom collected. One of the youths said they shivered from the chill of the night air, and he gave her to wear the mantle. The girl was while driving still, only pointed out the house where she said she lived. When they heard it stated that the girl had disappeared.
Forget the youth, the coat back and when he and his companions returned to the house, calling the garment a woman dressed in black, she met and said the girl was her daughter, but she was dead and buried. In later times they went to the grave and there, draped over the tombstone of view, the young man had his coat.

A different kind of legend in connection with the Vanishing hitch comes from a story Haunting the Green Mountain Cemetery, south of Bellville, Illinois. In the story, you can pick up a ghostly horseman, if one drive around the cemetery three times on a stormy night with a door to open the car. The legend says that appears on the third voyage, a ghostly woman, soaking wet from the rain, will appear dressed in black on the passenger seat. Over time we have finished with the third round is the spirit gone, but a horror one Pool of water on the passenger seat stay ..

These legends were not confusing enough, but would the biblical texts of a "Vanishing Hitchhiker" History in the New Testament, in which the apostle Philip baptizes an Ethiopian, who takes him in a car, then disappears. "When they came out of the water, the spirit wrenched Phillip away ...." (Acts 8,26-39)

The spirit of religious evangelism continues to this day.
New Zealand, the Christian community was rides with reports of a mysterious pickup was on the North Island browsing buzzing. The guy will have picked up they say something like, "Did you know that the Lord come back? "and that the only thing that was said to the man. Then he disappeared from the speeding car. He has appeared on several major roads, always on young Christian Couples. Some have said the stranger wore spotless white clothes, although none have been able to describe its exact appearance.

The same story came from small towns around Natchez, Mississippi, that people drove on the highway Traceway when she saw a man hitchhiking. When they stopped, and he came in the back seat, He told Jesus that he disappeared. A couple said that they never take hitchhikers but they felt at that time only to have forced the same experience. She went into the park ranger station and reported it to be said is that they stop and give them the sixth ones were the same story.

There are several versions seen this story, and one was to travel the world driving on a road in the darkness of night. These ethereal person, usually dressed in white, generally fascinated by the motorist. At some would say the hitchhikers something like "Jesus is Coming soon" disappeared. And such incidents reported continues to will be told today ....

Another version of the "vanishing hitchhiker 'legend is a prophecy of a natural disaster. According to reports from Washington Tacoma News Tribune after the eruption of Mount St. Helens on 18 May 1980, many drivers swore under oath that they saw a woman dressed in white with her skin matching the color of the garment, thumbed a ride on the side of the road near the mountain. She would get in the car and would eventually say in a ghostly whisper: "The Volcano is again between 12th October and 14 break "Then suddenly as they appeared, they would disappear. Sure enough lava from the volcano on 12 October .. It was a talked about urban legend at the time, though. Some people thought even swore they had picked up the woman in white before the 18th May, and she said the major. Then the Would undermine the conventional wisdom of experience driver - Still it is very spooky ...

A story like the frightening aspects of the "vanishing hitchhiker" happened to a group of Australian young people in search of lonely girls for some fun. Together they went cruising every weekend in search of excitement One night when she saw a beautiful girl hitchhiking on the side of the road. They stopped and offered her a ride, which she accepted. She climbed into the backseat with the boys Sitting on both sides of her and they went away. As they came closer to the deserted intersection, they said, "we are here, please." They refused to stop and drove across the intersection. She began to scream and suddenly broke up before their eyes. The story ended with screeching brakes, car doors fly open, screaming boy emerge from the car, and a somewhat more oriented from father, to sell the car because he was not weak, but you have nagging smell of corruption from the vehicle.

The Complaint of the disappearance of hitchhiker stories lies in the nature of the encounter - an interaction with a ghost does not come, because the main character was looking for the supernatural, but because it came to him. Such stories and legends to emphasize the belief that representatives from the spiritual world may occur at any time and by anyone. Addition to the horror factor was the Phantom's passing for a living person. The fact that they do not recognize the driver was like a ghost during their time together makes it easier to in the belief that we will not recognize as a ghost, though we will not.

There are people who would, in its application relating to witness how such a Phenomenon. But where this vanishing hitchhiker come and go? How is it over and over again when they saw they seem to defy the basic laws of nature, which we trust are. Sometimes logic can not explain the nature of the event, so it marks an unexplained mystery. Maybe someday in the future we will be the answers have, perhaps .. But now we are only covered in questions to the "vanishing hitchhiker".

NOTES:
1) Vanishing hitchhiker appeared in numerous Songs, and in return, in 1951 Orson Welles 'short' to Glennascaul "film of 1985 by Mr. wrong, and in 1824 Washington Irving's novel" The lady with Velvet Collar. "(Www.snopes.com)
2) The Stephen King short story "Riding the Bullet "is an example of a reverse version of this story, in this case was a dead man, a young hitchhiker that he told his mother's imminent death and subsequently disappeared.
3) The Twilight Zone television series aired an episode titled "The Hitchhiker", based on a variation of the story, written by Rod Sterling, and on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher base .. And in South Africa in 1992, there was a cult film "Dust Devil" by Richard Stanley, which featured a vanishing hitchhiker ..

4) One must be aware that these stories of meeting "vanishing hitchhiker or see the ghostly apparition in various Cemeteries are called stories "Urban Legends". There are stories, who said, and told, either ballads or related experience as something true the present and have no real basis in fact ... or do you?

5) The first proper study of the history of the disappearance of hitchhikers in 1942-3 by American folklorist Richard Beardsley and Rosalie Hankey be implemented together, as many accounts as they could, and tried to analyze it.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1) Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia .- 'en.wikipedia.org'
2) Peake's Commentary on the Bible - HH Rowley, Old Testament Editor, Matthew Black New Testament Editor, Nelson Publishers, England.
3) The Vanishing Hitchhiker - Jan Harold Brunvand - WW Norton, New York -1981. (Excerpts in Wikipedia)
4) The Big Book of Urban Legends, Paradox Press - New York - 1994
5) Encyclopedia of World Mythology, Forwarded by Rex Warner, Octupus Books Ltd., London, 1970-71

Sidebar:
One of the Midwest, and America's favorite ghost stories is the story of "Resurrection Mary ', the disappearance of hitchhiker. The cemetery is located in the area of justice, Illinois is home to this famous spirit since the 1930s.
The story of "Resurrection Mary" is one of the "famous weird Legends in the city of Chicago. "The story began on a cold winter night in 1934 when a young girl was killed in a car accident while he was on home from the O'Henry Ballroom (now Willowbrook Ballroom) on Archer Avenue in Justice, Il., A southern suburb of Chicago.
She rested peacefully for the next five years, but in 1939 a taxi driver took a young girl on Archer Avenue wearing a white dress, her face as white as her dress. It was a snowy January night, but the girl was not wearing a coat. She jumped into the door of the taxi and sat demurely by the driver. She gave him directions to her home and said that he needed to go north on Archer. Suddenly, she told him to stop and the driver looked out the window, where she had shown. He applied himself the passenger seat and saw that the girl had simply vanished from the cabin ... and the door does not open. The taxi was right in front of Resurrection Cemetery, where the girl been buried after the accident.
Over the years, sightings of Mary have been frequent. Many eager young people even claim they are picked up and made her dance with them. Some very credible witnesses say they had kissed her and found her lips chilled with cold. When they get home, they always disappear when they Resurrection To reach the cemetery. These stories have been with a grain of salt, since they could have been spoken, the yeast of the drink.
One night in 1977, a passing motorist saw Mary and onto the bars of the cemetery gate. He called the police, thinking a girl was trapped in the closed cemetery. Researchers found No one inside, when they arrived, but two of the bars in the gate were bent apart and small hand prints were etched into the iron. Supervisors at the cemetery had cut out the sections of the gate to keep out the inquisitive. They were embarrassed in welding it back into place a year later than the handprints. Between the time they were removed and then replaced, the bars were analyzed by a laboratory for fraud. It was found that extreme on the one hand prints without the use high amounts of heat would have done. The entrance can still see the gate to be. Over the years, sightings of Mary have been frequent.
Over the years gone by are sightings of Mary have continued. Taxi and truck drivers, motorists, reputable witnesses like police officers and ministers, and GHOST Hunters from all professions have the spirit, as she walks reported along the side of the road, or disappears from inside a moving vehicle. It is one of the most famous ghost of all time. Has it not follow that the goals and roadsides near Resurrection Cemetery?
Note: Resurrection Cemetery is located on Archer Avenue in Justice, Illinois. Follow 95th Street to Roberts Road, which goes north to Archer. The cemetery is located at 7600 South Archer Avenue. This road will take you to Mary's favorite place, the Willowbrook Ballroom, formerly O'Henry Ballroom.

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