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You are in a car with a complete stranger, on the highway, where a mistake can easily result in a dangerous car crash. There is something about it that's not entirely comfortable. As if that weren't bad enough, your company might well be not from this world. Urban Legends of vanishing hitchhikers are very widespread around the world and quite old: in the oldest ones, the vehicles picking up ghosts were still horses and carriages. The basic outline is the same: A driver picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely stretch of road, or sometimes just agrees to give a lift to someone met at a party or similar circumstances. The passenger is most often a beautiful young woman; more rarely, an old woman. The driver is almost always male. The passenger may complain of being cold, regardless of the actual weather. The driver will loan her his jacket or a blanket. The driver takes the passenger to the address she specifies, but when he arrives there, he finds that she has vanished from his car without a trace. Sometimes she disappears as the driver passes the graveyard where she is buried. Sometimes, she gets out and appears to enter the house, but the driver decides to check in on her the next day. He inquires at the house, where he learns that his passenger has died long before; sometimes, it's the anniversary of her death. When he visits her gravestone, he finds his jacket draped over it. Or, in another variant found as far back as The Bible (Acts 8:26-39): A driver picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely stretch of road. The driver is usually male; the passenger, often an old woman and very often a nun. The passenger issues prophecies during the ride. These vary by region and by story, and can be vague or specific, but don't necessarily have to come true. She vanishes from the driver's car before they reach her destination. The driver's subsequent inquiries reveal that she is dead or divine. In Hawaii, she is usually the goddess Pele. There's yet another variant (as seen in Pee-wee's Big Adventure) where the passenger is alive and the driver is dead. Fiction has taken its cue and the variations are manifold. It can be the driver, as well as the hitchhiker, who has some strange qualities. There's a variation where the apparition will seemingly materialize in front of a moving car. Despite instant braking, it appears they had to have been hit. Getting out and examining the car and environs will not reveal any body. Rest assured, however, that the driver has been "marked." The trope's name comes from The Haunted Mansion ride at Disney Theme Parks, which ends with this sage piece of advice. As it says this, the cars pass in front of trick mirrors that make it look like ghosts are sitting by the riders. Shortly after, the riders disembark from their vehicles, but as they do, the narrator warns that "a ghost will follow you home!" Compare with: Afterlife Express: Another form of supernatural transport, but the Afterlife Express doesn't usually take the living. Hostile Hitchhiker: Another situation in which a hitchhiker isn't what they seem, but a Hostile Hitchhiker can be (and most commonly is) mundane. Contrast with: Ghost Ship, despite the name, isn't related—a ghost ship is simply deserted. |
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A Happy Days episode has Fonzie getting involved with a girl who he comes to believe might be a ghost. (It turns out to be All Just a Dream.) | |
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A phantom hitchhiking woman may be picked up in Steambot Chronicles. | |
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One of the victims of the Abaddon Hotel in Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel was hitchhiking to the disastrous opening of the Hell House'' and has continued to lure victims to the hotel by standing on the roadside looking for rides. | |
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The "apparition in front of a moving car" is used — sort of — in the Nancy Drew game The Haunting of Castle Malloy. | |
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A ghost of the car-accident causing variety appears in the movie Gothika as well. | |
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In Jack the Reaper, Railway Jack appears multiple times along the side of the road: visible only to Jessie. Then he appears in front of the bus, causing the bus to crash. | |
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Anna Dressed in Blood opens with Cas hunting this type of ghost. | |
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In Atlantis: Milo's Return (the Direct to DVD sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire), the team is driving through the Arizona desert when they pick up a mysterious Shoshone man who they appear to pass several times. Turns out he is a Wind Spirit guarding a mass trove of ancient artifacts, and his search for a stolen pot is what's causing the mess in the southwest. | |
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Fortean Times has collated these stories from around Great Britain, ones which began almost as soon as the first cars rolled off the production lines and those which seem to go back even further and have been "repurposed" for the internal combustion engine. The legend of the phantom hitch-hiker on Bluebell Hill in Essex, for instance, appears to date back to the 1950's but the ghostly girl hitching a lift has been seen and reported on so often that this now has all the status of myth. | |
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Played with in the Freaky episode "Hitcher". Picking up hitchhikers while driving at night never seems like a good idea. Especially when the hitchhiker tells creepy ghost stories. Maybe Dad and Michael will have the last laugh when they share a story of their own... | |
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In the 1960 British horror film City of the Dead (aka Horror Hotel) actor Valentine Dyall plays a centuries-old warlock who hitches a ride with two different characters in the movie and then vanishes from the car as soon as they reach an ancient New England witch village. | |
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Hell's Highway has a sexy but homicidal goth chick hitchhiker who keeps coming back after being killed, though the twist ending reveals she was the subject in a government experiment involving cloning, and escaped with several of her duplicates. | |
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Forget Me Not: Of the standing in the middle of the road variety. | |
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Bedtime Stories (YouTube Channel): The entire premise of the episode "The Uniondale Hitchhiker",note on Good Friday 1968, at Uniondale in the Western Cape of South Africa, a motorbike crashed fatally injuring the pillion passenger, a girl called Maria Roux where the ghost of a woman named Maria Roux is often picked up by random drivers and motorcyclists, only for her to disappear as suddenly as she got onto their cars and bikes. Several other examples of this phenomenon are also discussed, with the hitchhikers ranging from old women to young boys. | |
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Freddy himself does this in the fourth film, but it's a trick. The protagonist attempts to run him down, but he is revealed to be an illusion, and she crashes into a tree instead. | |
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The 'apparition in front of the vehicle' version occurs in The Windmill Massacre. Jennifer sees her father step in front of the bus and screams at Abe to stop. However, when she gets off and looks, there is no sign of anyone. However, when she boards again, the bus won't start... | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Roadkill" we see this from the ghost's perspective. For that matter, it happens in the pilot. | |
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Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave ends with a Tarman zombie holding a sign reading "rave or bust" on the side of a highway. When no one stops, he gives up, angrily throws the sign at the ground, and starts walking. Brains! | |
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In the Mouth of Madness had a rather twisted variant on this in that it wasn't a hitchhiker but the passenger who happens to be the protagonist's girlfriend whom it turned out there was something horribly wrong with. | |
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Although The Hitcher has a living Hostile Hitchhiker, John Ryder has no social security number, driver's license, or any other indication that he exists. Oh, and he's a psychopathic killer that beats down anybody he pleases. | |
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Dust Devil, a 1993 cult film by Richard Stanley set in South Africa was, according to the DVD commentary, inspired by the director's memory of being told the Vanishing Hitchhiker legend as a youngster. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): The episode "The Hitch-Hiker" involves a woman who keeps passing the same creepy hitchhiker while driving cross-country, and comes to believe he's trying to kill her. When the woman calls home, she learns that she died in a car accident. It ends with her driving back to the hitchhiker, who is actually Death. The story was originally written as a Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher, and was featured on several different programs throughout the 1940s, including Suspense, Philip Morris Playhouse, and Mercury Summer Theatre; in each of these, the protagonist/narrator (originally written as a male) was portrayed by Orson Welles. |
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Protagonist Rick Rogers picks up a lovely young woman one night at the start of Paranormal Files: Fellow Traveler. And then his life goes From Bad to Worse. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth A Nightmare on Elm Street film uses the "apparition in front of the car" version. A little girl appears on the road as the characters are driving to Springwood, telling them "Go back!". Only one character can see her, and he jerks the wheel, nearly crashing the vehicle. Interestingly, the vision is not a ghost, but actually a manifestation of another character when she was younger. The character in question was actually the one driving, but couldn't see her younger self, presumably because she was fully awake. Freddy himself does this in the fourth film, but it's a trick. The protagonist attempts to run him down, but he is revealed to be an illusion, and she crashes into a tree instead. As a Mythology Gag, he pulls the same stunt in the remake (except the protagonists crash into a ditch, instead of a tree). |
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The "Apparition in front of a moving car" variety appears in both the video game and movie versions of Silent Hill. | |
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Nick Velvet: At the start of "The Theft of the Bermudan Penny", Gloria reads Nick an article about several young people reporting picking up a mysterious hitchhiker dressed in white on a particular stretch of highway who spoke to them about god before vanishing from the vehicle. Later, when the target of Nick's latest theft seemingly vanishes from a moving vehicle, Nick contacts the source of the article to see if there could be any connection (or explanation). | |
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Given that the trope namer is Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, the fanfics Haunted Mansion and the Hatbox Ghost just had to feature the original three Hitchhiking Ghosts, Gus, Phineas and Ezra, as secondary characters. | |
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The ghost in the Porky Pig cartoon "Jeepers Creepers" tries to hitch a ride in Porky's police car towards the end. Porky stops, backs up and holds up a sign that says "No Riders." | |
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The Ghosts of Sleath: A variation - parapsychologist David Ash, horrified when he seems to have hit a young boy, gets out of his car to find no one there. | |
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The Ghost Roads series is written from the point of view of the ghost. She's not malicious, but she frequently shows up for a driver who's going to crash soon, so she gets a bad rap (she's actually attracted to people who are about to die on the road so she can save their life or, if that's not possible, act as a Psychopomp to prevent them from becoming a malicious ghost). The story also ties together several variations of the "vanishing prom date" subgenre and provides a plausible explanation for the borrowed jackets. | |
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In The Mighty Boosh season 1 episode "Hitcher", Howard Moon picks up one of these. | |
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The Child Ballad of "The Suffolk Miracle" (Child #272) has this plot (with a horse instead of a car). In the ballad, the hitchhiker is the protagonist's lover, who died of grief when her father prevented him from seeing her; it also makes use of the reappearing garment device (in this case, a handkerchief which shows up in the man's grave). | |
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The "Apparition in front of the car" variant is used again in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series - the Batmobile turns a corner and Batman thinks he's just managed to run Robin down, though in fact it's a hallucination caused by the Scarecrow's fear gas. | |
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Subverted in the Crayon Shin-chan manga which has a series of AU short stories where the titular character grows up and becomes a cab driver. One of his lady passengers disappears mid-ride, leaving only a puddle of cold water on the seat. Much to said the ghost/passenger's exasperation, instead of realising that she is a ghost, he just becomes angry that the passenger ran off without paying and peed on the seat. | |
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In the opening dream sequence of Alan Wake, the title player character runs down a phantom hitchhiker, who then proceeds to menace him with an axe. | |
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Case Closed: The Japanese legend of the yuki onna (snow woman) is discussed by Shinichi's father as a subtle clue as to how the murderer set up the crime scene so he could have an apparently air-tight alibi. In his version of the story, a man unwittingly picks up a yuki onna on his way home, and though she was intending to freeze him to death, his concern for her causes her to melt instead. | |
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An early scene in The Fog has a young woman appearing in this manner, but she turns out just to be an ordinary person who just happened to be out on a particularly eerie night. | |
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Speaking of Christianity and The Bible, the "road to Emmaus" narrative (in Luke 24:13-32) could almost be seen as a variation of this. | |
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In his book The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman advises readers to pick up the hitchhiking ghost, promising that you will be surprised at what happens next. The frequency of the hitchhiker's appearance is also a handy way of keeping track of time if you don't have a clock. |
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Fears to Fathom: Invoked in-universe in Norwood Hitchhike. The cashier warns Holly not to pick up anyone because the area has the ghost of a teenage girl who died on her prom night. However, the actual threat Holly faces is a random psycho trying to break into her motel room. | |
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In the pilot episode of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph and Bill keep passing the ghost of a dead man in the desert. | |
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An episode of Freaky Stories tells the classic version of the urban legend. A man picks up a hitchhiking girl on the road; she disappears during the drive but leaves her jacket. The man goes to her house to return the jacket, but is greeted by a woman saying the girl died several years ago, wearing that same jacket. Another episode (one actually set 20 Minutes into the Future, complete with hover cars) had the teenaged hitchhiker turn out to be a (non-evil) old hag. |
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Growing Pains: In a Halloween episode, Mike claims he had met a beautiful teen-aged ghost named Kara, who had died 17 years earlier in a car accident. An in-joke in the episode is that, along the way, Mike and Kara stop at a roadside bar, where a talent show — featuring all of the guests dressed as dead celebrities — is taking place. Mike's making up the tale. | |
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In Mystery Skulls Animated the ghost Lewis gets hit by a trucker, though in this case he straight up steals the vehicle as his reaction is to start appearing at the wheel and the trucker quickly jumps out to watch his rig get a ghostly make-over before taking off without him. | |
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Comic Cavalcade: On his way to cover the story of a football player's recent murder Johhny Peril picks up a hitchhiker in the rain who claims to have seen the murder and gives him the name of the perpetrator. His hitchhiker later turns out to be the ghost of the victim. | |
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In the "Girl on the Road" episode of the obscure TV series The Veil hosted by Boris Karloff, a motorist aids a girl stranded on the highway. After she vanishes, he searches for her, eventually discovering she had died years before in a wreck on the stretch of road where he met her. | |
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A longer timeframe than usual, but Kara Thrace in Battlestar Galactica (2003). Dies, turns up again and hitches a lift, gives mystical prophecies and information, vanishes into thin air when her "task" is done. | |
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Nina Tanleven: The Ghost Let Go references and plays with this - it has Nine, Chris and Nine's father get in an accident because of what they initially suspect might be a hitchhiking ghost, with Nine and Chris theorizing that she caused them to crash rather than ask for a lift because the driver wasn't alone. The "ghost" later turns out to be the very much alive Dolores Smiley. Her mother is a ghost, who was accidentally struck and killed by a car almost identical to the Tanleven's (Dolores mistook their car for the one from long ago, which is why she ran out in front of them and caused their accident), and Dolores goes out every year on the anniversary of Mrs. Smiley's death, hoping she'll find her spirit wandering the road where she died so that she can finally apologize for the last, hateful words she ever said to her mother. | |
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth A Nightmare on Elm Street film uses the "apparition in front of the car" version. A little girl appears on the road as the characters are driving to Springwood, telling them "Go back!". Only one character can see her, and he jerks the wheel, nearly crashing the vehicle. Interestingly, the vision is not a ghost, but actually a manifestation of another character when she was younger. The character in question was actually the one driving, but couldn't see her younger self, presumably because she was fully awake. | |
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The Happy Tree Friends Halloween Episode "Without a Hitch" features this trope. Subverted when the only thing really weird about the ride is Flaky's nervous hallucinations of Evil Flippy killing her... which results in them crashing into a telephone pole. | |
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs features a character telling a scary bedtime story. A man robs the grave of a recently deceased woman, cutting off her hand to get her jewelry. He later meets a woman on the road dressed all in black, who asks for a ride. When the man's cart passes the cemetery the horse stops and won't go any further. The woman asks to get out, the man moves to help her out of the cart and asks her to give him her hand, and the woman says he already has it. | |
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GURPS Infinite Worlds also has a double inversion: troubled people might get picked up by a mysterious stranger who gives them life-affirming advice before dropping them off. Turns out he's some kind of supernatural being (not necessarily a ghost) who drives across worlds for this very purpose. | |
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This version is also used in IT when a dead Belch picks up Henry...in a 58 Plymouth Fury. | |
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Used in Creepshow 2 when a woman accidentally runs down a hitchhiker; when she drives off instead of helping him or calling for aid, he haunts her all the way home. | |
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In the Amphibia episode “Night Drivers”, Sprig and Polly encounter one while trying to take a dangerous shortcut back home in the middle of the night. Upon finally reaching home, the two realize that the ghost was actually trying to keep them safe the entire time. | |
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Hilton Edwards directed a 1951 movie called Return to Glennascaul, starring Orson Welles, which centered around a Vanishing Hitchhiker event. Two women, an older lady and her younger daughter, hitch a ride home with a man and invite him in for tea and drinks. He returns and finds the house abandoned, eventually discovering that the two women are long dead. | |
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New World of Darkness' Geist: The Sin-Eaters mentions this in its rulebook, as one of the titular Sin Eaters picks up a ghost hitchhiker, hears her story, commiserates, and helps the ghost pass on as the car passes a cemetery. The trope also gets mentioned in the Midnight Roads splatbook, where it's mentioned that all sorts of supernaturals are known for pulling this off. In fact, it's a popular feeding method for road-wandering vampires, who use Dominate and/or Obfuscate to pull off the vanishing part when they're done. |
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Both variations show up in Ghost Stories with a ghostly taxi driver in the first instance and a vengeful ghost attacking taxi drivers in the second. | |
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Inverted in Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee Wee Herman is lost in the countryside and hitches a ride with a truck driver. Just after they get going, the driver tells him the story of a terrible accident she witnessed. At one point, she shows him how badly managled the driver's body was by shifting into a Nightmare Face. After she drops him off, she says "Be sure to tell 'em 'Large Marge sent ya!'" Pee Wee then walks into the nearest restaurant and tells the patrons "Large Marge sent me." They react in shock and horror and one tells him the same story of the accident. He also reveals that night is the anniversary of said accident which killed Large Marge. Pee Wee then realizes he got a ride from her ghost. | |
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In the "Haunted America" arc of IDW 's Ghostbusters: Ongoing comic series, there's a multi-issue side story where Peter picks up a young woman named Laura whose car was totaled by a haunted 18-wheeler that's been terrorizing a certain local road. He captures the ghost trucker and drops Laura off at her house, though she disappears without getting out of the car. And when he goes to her house, her elderly mother says Laura was killed in an accident on that road twenty years earlier. Then again, the ending was essentially spoiled already by the story's title, "Who Killed Laura Parr?". | |
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Field of Dreams has an inversion: the protagonists are on their way home when they pick up the hitchhiker, and they take him home with them, rather than to a destination of the hitchhiker's choice. An added twist: the ghost is a younger version of someone they've already met ... | |
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