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There are many urban myths about phantom hitchhikers. usually they go along the lines of some young man on a motorcycle sees a pretty girl hitching a lift, so he stops for her. they travel a few miles, when he suddenly notices she is no longer gripping his waist, so he stops and turns around to see she isnt there. thinking she must have fallen off, he rides up and down the road looking for her, but to no avail. eventually he calls in at the nearest police station / hospital to report the accident, only to be told that this has happened before, and that the description matches that of a girl who was killed many years ago in a crash.

there are variations of this tale all over the world - there is supposed to be one of these phantoms hitching a lift in the mersey tunnel.

in some cases, the hitcher is picked up by a car, or even a bus. there is one case on record of a bus stopping to pick up a "passenger" on Ashby road between shepshed and Coalville but when the doors open, the woman at the bus stop vanishes. it is thought this may be the same ghost that haunts the ruins of Grace Dieu Priory, though why someone who died long before buses were invented would wait at a bus stop is quite another mystery. Apparently, a motorist driving past her once slowed down, but was so shocked at seeing her suddenly vanish that he crashed into the side of a bridge - or so he claimed.

as anyone here ever picked up a phantom hitcher, or knows someone who did?

I have never personally seen such a thing, but have always been fascinated by the stories. There is even (supposedly) one around here though I have never met anyone who has even spotted him.

i agree there are many variations of the story(s) i personally never have picked up anyone like that but have heard of such stories by my older relatives,i always figured those stories were to keep the young at home at night

Not a hitch hiker , but I did come across mysterious bikes once it was a very crazy scary thing... Long raod trip .. Stopped to go to the bath room, couldnt find a place.. So me being a girl and that time of the month i HAD to stop. So me and my best friend pulled off the road, a long road with no place to stop but some old church with its door winging open...

Of coarse we go inside and yes the bathroom has to be all the way in the basement go figue.. Well when we went inside there was NOBODY there.

Me being me of coarse I must scare the piss out of my best friend, so i go hide around the corner, ya know to jump out at her when she is done...

Well as she exits the rest room we hear loud noises like motorcycles outside... So we freak out and find a tiny window to look out... To our horror there are like 10 harleys outside.. Then we hear foot steps upstairs...

We totally FREAK and ran for out lives out the door to the car... When we get outside to our car... We realize the harleys are gone.

So my thing is with one exit to this chruch that we ran the hell out of, Where did all these bikes and bikers go?

That is the oly freaky story I have hope u liked it.....

there is this story of an older man who used to walk this hill in tn .. just off hwy 49 in ashland city.. they say people would offer him a ride.. well now people say they will be driving up the hill and say it appears someone sits in the passenger seat till they get to the top then its gone.. me i ain't seen it yet but maybe someday if i ever go that route again..

now that's odd - i've heard something similar somewhere - a ghost from pre-motorised transport days changing to adapt to new technology. it seems to be a theme amongst what can best be termed travelling ghosts. spirits who seem to be desperately trying to complete a journey they started but died before reaching their destination.

The Gray lady in Myrtle beach...

I knew this guy once who picked up this girl one night because she was hitchhiking in the rain, he said that she got in the back seat of the car and when he reached the bottom of the hill he was driving down, he said that he looked in the rear view mirror to ask the girl a question and she was gone, he said that he stoped the car and looked in the back and he even drove back up the hill to make sure she did not jump out of the car, he said that would be the last time he ever picked up another hitchhiker...

I have never seen a phantom hitch hiker,but I thought I got a ride once with a phantom driver.
It happened in the painted desert one year.

there are some that are seen by so many people, that the local police dont bother investigating anymore when someone goes to them telling of a vanishing hitchhiker. some roads have picked up a reputation for them. also quite common is cars accidentally driving through a "traveling ghost" and going back to look for a body that cant be found. there is one just north of lowestoft in Suffolk.

Me and some friends have seen resurrection mary. she will walk if she can not get a ride home from the dance

omg I can't believe I found this thread at the time that I did. I was actually taking my friends motercycle out for a spin when i met up with this other biker chick. We then decided to go out to a more country like place to ride together where there are less people. She told me her name and everything. So we're riding next to each other and this semi comes speeding behind us and the next thing I know we both go left and right and the semi passes (I almost got run over) when I get back into the lane I look for her and she's just completely gone. I couldn't find her or traces of the bike, so naturally I'm freaking out so I called the cops, got a ticket for riding a bike without a license wich sucked, and they wound up telling me in the end that the girl died on that very road by getting hit by a car and that they didn't appreciate my prank call.

I personally have never experienced the phantom hitchhiker, but there is an odd local story from around where I live...though it's not really a hitchhiker.

Apparently there is a back road in the town over from where I live where a young woman died a few decades ago in a car accident. Supposedly, if you drive down that road at night alone, sometimes she appears and starts chasing your car until you get off the back road and back onto the main street. I've never experienced that either...but I'd kind of like to investigate it.

I have never seen anything like this myself but have seen a video of it that someone took of them picking up a woman and she told them she was going just ahead to where she was in an accident and that is where she died and the car ended up in an accident.

On a road trip a buddy of mine and I were driving and saw a hitch hiking female. It was late and dark so we passed her. There were no other cars on the road and we turned around to go back and pick her up and she was gone when we got there. We both thought it was just our imagination and lack of sleep. We drove from Detroit, MI to Jacksonville, FL only stopping for fuel.

could it be a ruse set up by the highways agency to encourage motorists not to pick anyone up

I'v never picked up a phantom hitchhiker before but one night when my best frind and I were cruzing around town at about 2 am we were messing with the radio fighting over the station and when she looked up again at the road she yelled out I looked up and there was this little girl plain as day in the middle of the raod just standing there. My friend slamed on the breaks and we jumped out buy when we got ou there was no one there. she backed the car up thinking maybe we did hit her even though we didn't hear anything and when she backed the car up there was a ribbon on the ground it was really fragile and yellowed from age. It was the weirdest night.

I love the variants on this story....A great urban legend to be sure. I had heard of the lady before but they drop her at a closed cemetery at night and she disappears into that.

Never come across something like that before, but I have heard of phantom highwayman riding carriages through a persons house and the residents found out that there was a old road that the houses were build on. I heard of a Roman soldier on horseback that cuts through a pub celler in York and the land lord found out that it was a old road. I have heard about the phantom monk that wanders a busy bypass, and a lot of drivers have reported sightings of a monk appearing in front of cars and wandering around the side of the road. They found out that the bypass was build over a old monastry from Medievil times.

I never pick one up but I did saw a hitchhicker at several times and some times once I had pass and look in my rear mirror, the person was not there anymore, it had vanish, most fo thetime I sort of turn and took another road then suppose to and it turns out there had been accidents or trouble ont he road I was suppose to take

I have heard about this before like the rest of you there were differences in the stories...
I dont know anyone who has seen or done this either.....however,
my dad and his buddies were chased down a gravel road in a mach one, by a man in a wheel chair, who some how managed to keep up with them....and left a row of shot gun holes in the back of the car....

i've never done that yet but there is a lake very close to my house and it is said that on foggy night the Lady of White Rock Lake tries to hitch a ride with people passing by and once you pick her up and go a few miles up the road to an abondoned resturaunte she vanishes and leaves a puddle of water in your back seat. Really freaky.

I have never had that happen to me. I dont really see hitch hickers where I live.

But I did hear one about a young teenage boy dressed up in a tux for the prom. Saying his car broke down and he needed a ride. Once in the car he vanishes.

you wouldn't know. they don't look like ghosts - they aren't see thru, they dont have blood dripping from wounds, or look like zombies. they usually look like pretty young women (though sometimes they are male) and you might be tempted to feel sorry for someone stranded at night.

i was wondering if roads somehow psychically attract spirits - or maybe the energy trails of so many road users feed them. who knows?

I've heard of Phantom Hitchhikers, and I think it may be possible. A ghost or spirit can haunt anywhere right?

some cultures believe spirits are looking for roads and paths. i read somewhere that paths a winding and not straight in China to confound spirits, who can only travel in straight lines.

Yes, I know of some married couple who had this experience. They were going back home and it was getting really late at night so they decided to go on a short cut. I know where the place they went through and there is nothing but trees and you wouldn’t be able to see a thing a night without head lights over there. But anyways as they were riding they saw a little girl just standing at the side of the road and the guy wanted to stop but the wife said to go. So he only slowed down to see what the girl had looked like and said she was kind of solid rather than seeing through her. But he said the next thing he remembered was black out. Of course that leads them to crashing into a stone wall that was built there for several years now. But that place they went through is a very old ground my grandparent tells me stories about it of which are said to be true. So to me it’s not very shocking that they had seen a ghost of some sort personally I probably wouldn’t get scared if I saw one there.

ghost stories like these are told to keep little children inside, and/or to keep people from picking up hitchhikers...

its just like in the 17th century or so with vampires... they told their kids that vampires cant come into houses unless invited in, that they grow weak around sunlight and garlic, or you can kill them by shoving a wooden stake through thier heart... these were told to keep their children from being to terrified and so that they can sleep well...

My father is the oldest of 13 children. He, my grandmother and about 5 of my aunts and uncles all told me (at different times, the same story) about one night when they were all little, my grandmother picked up a girl walking. My grandmother said all of the kids were scared to death of the girl and she could never figure out why. The girl said she was going to a place up the road a bit (I cant at the time remember where or what it was) by the time my grandmother got there, there was no one in the seat. All the kids said she just vanished. This happened in New Jersey at least 30 years ago.

I have never and i did know someone years back that claimed to have picked up a phantom hitchhicker, whether the story is true or not i have no clue, i believe that its just another urban legend

Please read the case of "Resurrection Mary" ic Chicago.

I have never, and not that I can recall, nor has anyone that I know ever picked up a phantom hitchhiker, but there is supposedly one in front of a small rural graveyard about eight miles North of East Grand Forks, Minn. The phantom appears on foggy nights and so far, as the story goes, has only appeared when the car, truck, motorcycle, or bus does not have any male passenger's. There have been several reportings to the EGF Police and County Sheriff's about one or more women stopping to pick up a man about 6 feet tall with a very thin build in front of this cemetary, and gets in the vehicle with them, and then makes some "wierd" sounds and then vanish's right before their eyes. Needless to say, the women involved come close to "relieving" themselves and have to pull off of the road to calm themselves. I have also heard of phantom cars and driver's picking up hitchhiker's and while giving them a ride, tell them that what they are doing is right or wrong and tips on what to do to succeed or change in their ways. After the rider gets dropped off, the driver says that he/she is going back to where they just came from and turns the vehicle around and drives a short distance before disappearing from the road. Carpe Noctem

my uncle once saw a phantom bus. he was driving late one night and saw what appeared to be a crashed bus, so drove to the nearest police station to report the accident. he was told that a bus did crash on the spot he described - several years earlier, and since then someone reports seeing a crashed bus on that spot every year on the anniversary of the crash. he drove back, adamant that it was a real bus - but couldn't find it again.

abit off topic but farringdon train station is haunted by a girl who was murdered on the site and you can hear her last scream.i went to the station a couple of times and heard a girl scream and went up and reported it.the ticket collector gave me a look and said dont worry about it.i found out later shes was a ghost.alot of people have been run over and haunt where it happend

here is another story i found on the internet..

Phantom Hitchhikers have become somewhat of a more common occurrence in the late 90's. Supposedly they are spirits of those who have fallen victim to automobile tragedies, spirits that haunt that very location where they were killed. Many reports have come forward, claiming that a hitchhiker was picked up around an area where a fatal accident occurred, only for the hitchhiker to disappear from the vehicle just down the road. Some instances involve many fatal accidents on the same stretch of highway where phantom hitchhikers are known to appear.

One case involves a young girl, known only as Resurrection Mary. She was supposedly killed as the result of being struck by an automobile on a hitchhike home, after being dropped off by her boyfriend due to a quarrel. Five years afterwards, her apparition began to appear, asking motorists for a ride to the ballroom, or the cemetery. She would disappear from the vehicle halfway down the road. Another case took place in Cape Province, South Africa. An army Corporal offered a young woman a lift home on his motorbike. He gave her a helmet and an earpiece to listen to the radio to on the way. Ten miles down the road, his back tire spun out, and so he stopped to see whether or not he had a flat. When he turned around, the young girl was gone. She could not have fallen off, for the helmet was tied to the passenger seat, and the radio earpiece was in his left ear.

Cases of Phantom Hitchhikers continue to rise. One small town even has a road sign with the figure of a ghost to warn motorists of a phantom hitchhiker that has been reported to have caused many accidents in the area, some fatal. The cases seem to take place heavily in Australia and South Africa, as well as the western United States. But every country has its own Phantom Hitchhiker, and as time goes by, their numbers will rise.

http://www.angelfire.com/la/paranormalphenomenon/phantomhitchhikers.html

my fauther was in veitnam and one day him and other soldeirs were ordered to pick up sivilains in the nearby town because it was supposed to be bomb. My fauther puled over for a women and her child and invited them abord his jeep he drove off and claimed to hold a conversation for about five minute with her of why she was so far from the town. She said to him me and my child were killed by a land mine. When he heard that he turned to look at them and they were gone.

I dont doubt that this is possible. Esp if its late at night adn these drivers are exhausted. Not that they might be dreaming, but the frame of mind when u are that tired makes the mind more vulnerable to seeing those things. I believe it totally can happen. I have never had this experience but Im sure those accounts were made for a reason...

wow I have not heard of most of these yet I am sure there are even more stories of phanthoms, ghosts and spirits out there that appear to people. I think it would be interesting to actually experience it.

Once when I was a child my father and passed a man walking on the side of the road with his thumb out, we had passed by him but then backed up to give him a ride and he was no where to be found. It was a bit creepy.

I have heard this story also..... I guess anything may be possible but I don't think anyone should pick up hitch hikers. It just isn't safe these days!

I myself have never
had this occur to me or any of my friends. However I have heard the same st
ory where I grew up. It is a gi
rl walking in a heavy storm and drivers pick her up
and take her home but when they get there she vanishures. They ask the lady there who happens
to be the girls mother and she tells them her daughter died not far away during a
storm. Yup same story just a different place.

I would think that these types of stories would be dying out, i mean every type of sick weirdo is trying to get rides from people and then the people usually always gets killed it is amazing that people are still picking up hitchhickers, and its more amazing that people are still hitchhiking...

Personally I haven't had an experience like that, but that story about the bikes is a little creepy. You'd think you'd hear them leave.

The one I know of the best is the one from Chicago...Reserection Mary...she has been seen outside the Reserection Cemetary gates at night...in a white flowing dress.She asks anyone that stops...for a ride home...when they reach the house...she is gone.

The first of these stories I ever heard about was actually in a Reader's Digest than my grandparents had when I was a kid. I believe it was the girl in the prom dress story. When the boy went to her house her mom told him she had died on prom night a few years before. The sweater he had loaned her ended up folded up on his car seat when he returned.

true - hitching is definitely dying out. i've not done it in over ten years, and it's very rare to see someone hitching by the roadside now. 15 or 20 years ago it was quite common. i think the stories are told and retold though. legends never die.

i wonder if the hitchhiker ghosts will just give up and fade away, or find another means of getting from a to b? maybe they will get more forceful, and simply materialize on the back seat of moving vehicles. anyone hear of that yet?

I never picked up one but I have heard all the stories about them.

no but i had the ghost of an old afghani soldier appear to me, and then there was a phantom of some kind that stalked around the other guard towers there too

the stories are interesting, but I've never seen this before myself.

i cant say i have

I wonder if it could be the area that is haunted and so attracts the spirits to appear there

No, I've not seen anything like that, & if I have, I've not noticed.

I'm not silly enough to even contemplate picking up a hitchhiker.

I've heard many of these urban legends & I dont doubt them

haven't ever seen any of this yet I find it very interesting

i have done something like that, one night i was in a trance like state and i entered my child father car and when he relivied it was realy not the whole me sitting next to him he frick out and call me to see if i was okay for he thougt i was dead because i disapear when he was talking to me. so anything is possable.

I have never personally and neither has anyone i know picked up a phantom hitch-hiker..i have heard that before and i am fasinated with stories..

I suppose if you beleive in ghosts or banshees that a phantom hitchhiker could happen.
So may people die on roads I think a ghostly apparition by the road would be a possible occurence. I see those roadside crosses all the time and it makes me think about it.

hmm This never happened to me and well I'm not 2 sure if it happened to anyone that I know but I did read about it in books and I find it very interesting

There have been stories for years near where I grew up of a girl hitching a ride home and when they cross the railroad tracks, she disappears. The car that picked her up first tried to beat the train and they were both killed.

it could be the area that is haunted and so attracts the spirits to appear there

i have had people tell me storys of them

Uhh, I never did, but that sounds very spooky.

Proly, I would shit my pants, immediatly, if I am about to see that happening.

I've never encountered a phantom hitcher but i have heard of it.

I've heard of it

never heard of it

I've been a hitch hicker a couple times through my life and there are some strange things you see out on the road.... i have picked up a hitch hicker but told them if they try anything i'll drive into the nearest tree and ruin there day
.... my dad said that he has seen people on the side of the road were there was no were to consele your self... gone back to pick them up and they had vanished

I have heard of a hitchhiker dressed in bluejeans, and a bluejean jacket being picked up along Illinois route 1, then vanishing from the car that picked him up. One of the people who had stopped to give this guy a ride was a police officer, who, just like everybody else, then went back, looking for the guy along the road, only to find nothing.

I guess even wandering souls sometimes get tired of walking, and prefer to ride. I do have to wonder why these poor souls are forever wandering our roads. Do they seek help for a wrongful death, or seek to leave a message for loved ones, or even homicide detectives? I guess we'll never know, but it does make life a little spicier, doesn't it?

Then there is always Ressurection Mary, from Ressurection Cemetary in Justice/Argo Illinois, who has been seen by many wandering around the graveyard there.

I have a friend who has seen her many times on his way to work at a grocery store in the area. He rides his bike past the cemetary weekly, and has seen her at least ten times.

i have yet to be lightened to such an experience... but i do believe the experience to be possible.

There is a song called Phantom 309 by Red Sovine that is about a similar type incident but it is the hitchhiker that gets picked up by the "phantom" in the song. I personally have never experienced such a thing. Though when I was in college I did have a spirit that would travel with me a lot and was even witnessed by some of my friends.

In many ways this adds to the parental lecture to not pick up hitch hikers. They could be a seriel killer or even a ghost. Either which way, I'm not going to be picking up any strangers for a drive.

theres one for the peak districk in england where I live...so I've been told.
if you go down a long road at night I forgot the road name (somthing hill) and your in emotional distress, a woman will be seen on the side of the road and will get in the car and speak to you about your problems till they are sorted and since the road is long, if you turn off it before the end she will disapear, but if you carry on the road she will stay in the car untill the very end, get out and then disapear.