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The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle, meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. [1]
The Vanishing Hitchhiker? That name became established after the early scholarly discussion by Beardsley and Hankey (1941). They presented 41 texts, which they divided into four subtypes, labelled A, B, C and D. However, there are other texts which might also be included, namely those termed The Corpse in the Car. Jones (1944) labels them BX,
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Jones (1944, 285) gave “The Corpse in the Car” the code “BX”, suggesting it was simply a version or subset of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” version B. Yet, confusingly, on the same page he also said that B and BX were “entirely separate” stories. In Baughman’s Type and Motif-Index (1966), however, we find the prediction of a ...
He called his first classic volume after the most popular trope: ‘The Vanishing Hitchhiker’. Broadly: a traveller stops to pick up a hitchhiker. The hitchhiker sits in the back of the vehicle and when they reach their destination, the traveller finds that the passenger has disappeared into thin air.
The legend of the Vanishing Hitchhiker hardly needs an introduction. The core story concerns a traveller who offers a ride to a vulnerable-look-. ing pedestrian, only to find his passenger has disappeared without trace. Later investigations reveal that the passenger was a supernatural entity, not. aa living human being at all.
1 de abr. de 2015 · Books. The Evidence for Phantom Hitch-Hikers: An Objective Survey of the Vanishing Passenger from Urban Myths to Actual Events. Michael Goss. Weiser Books, Apr 1, 2015 - Body, Mind & Spirit -...
