The Vanishing Hitchhikers
This is a story that has so many versions all over the rictor scale. There are so many versions of it that each one has to have it's own city. Though with the number of accedents each year, it doesn't surprise me.
Here are a few I found
The Dancing Ghost
This story takes place in the city of Tompkinsville, Kentucky. Two guys are heading to a dance when they spot a pretty girl walking on the side of the road dressed like she was going to a party. So they pull up along side her and ask her if she wants to go to the dance with them. She accepts and getts in the car, and spends the night dancing and talking with them. At the end of the night they aggreed on a spot to drop her off, since it was raining, one of the guys gives her his coat, saying that he will pick it up from her later. They pull up to the house on Meshack Road, and droped her off like she requested. A few days later, the guy went back and to the house to pick up his coat....but is told by the woman at the house that the girl he describes sounds like her daughter, who died in an accident on that road. When the guy visits her grave at the cemetary, his coat is hung on her tombstone.
The Girl on the Side of the Road
One night a Dr. Eckersall who, while driving home from a country club dance was flagged down by a girl on the side of the raod dressed in a sheer evening gown. He slowed down and stopped to give her a ride, and she got in the back seat because the fron was crowded by golf clubs. She gave them teh address and when he got to the house he looked back to tell her something and she was gone. Thinking she must have gotten out allready, he went up to the door and rang the door bell. An old man answers the door and tells him that the girl he is talking about is his daughter, but she was killed two years ago in a car accident.
The Basketball Player
On a winter evening in Oklahoma in 1965, Mea Doria was driving to her sister's house from Tulsa to Pryor. On her way she sees a boy, about 11 or 12, hitchhicking on the side of the road. She stops for him, he gets into t he front seat along side her, and they make idle chatter as they make their way down Highway 20. In their conversation, the boy says that he is a basketball player for a local school, and Mea says that he has the height and build of an athlete. She also notices that he is not wearing a jacket of any kind, despite the fact that it's winter. The boy seemed to have no particular destination in mind. He points to a colvert on the side of the road and asks to be let out there. Mea is puzzled because there is no house in sight. But before she can even pull over the boy simply vanishes from the car. She immediatley stops the car, gets out and looks around, but there is no sign of the boy. Mea later learns in a chance of conversation witha utility worker that the same hitchhicker was first picked up at the same spot in 1936-29 years earlier.