I saw this on msn video a while ago it was very intriguing histories mysteries was the segment I'll see if I can find a link if you saw it what did you think

If you are refering to the legend where someone takes a dead person to the prom or to a dance, I have a version of that tale that dates back from Civil War Era Arizona (or somewhere in the West). I will see if I can find it; it's buried somewhere in the piles of my ghost story books. I can imagine that this legend (or variations of it) have been around for a while and would like to find the oldest version of it that I can.

I didn't see that particular episode of Histories Mysteries that you are talking about, but I would like to. I would like to see how it compares to my version.

Since the coming of the Internet many of these stories have been found to triangulate on West Chicago's Archer Avenue and Resurrection Cemetery.

what is is this about
whats the legend?
or mystery?
can someone plz explain
or better yet the guy who made this topic can post a link

The legend (but there are numerous first-person accounts) say that a motorist spies a young girl in an evening gown walking along a lonely country road. In many versions it is raining.

The motorist offers the girl a ride to her home. Because she is shivering he offers her the loan of his jacket

But when they arrive at the address provided the girl has suddenly vanished from the automobile.

The motorist knocks on the door of the house, concerned that the girl may not have gotten safely inside.

An older woman answers the door. She informs the motorist that he has encountered the ghost of her daughter, killed on the road 20 years before. The same thing happens every year on the anniversary of her death.

A day or two later the motorist visits the cemetery where the girl is buried. He easily recognizes the grave for his jacket is draped over the tombstone.

Hello OldTimeRadio,

I had always heard of these "roadside appartions" and never believed it. But the only apparition I have ever seen was on the road. scared the hell out of me, I hit the brakes to keep from hitting it. You wonder what something like that is doing on the road?

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seax

That pretty much describes Arkansas's Highway (I can't remember which, it's in Little Rock) ghost to a T. The girl was killed in a car wreck when the car flipped over the bridge.

Seax, it's been suggested that ghosts may travel roads and highways for exactly the same reason that living people do - it's the most direct route towards wherever they want to go - for example, back to their childhood environs.

Moreover, Europeans had an ancient concept of "corpse ways" along which the dead traveled. As more modern roads were constructed they may have very well followed the same paths, especially if those corpse ways tended to be direct routes.

There's a long stretch of the Interstate south of Little Rock which is supposed to be a genuine window area for all sorts of paranormal road happenings, especially road ghosts, ghost automobiles and Phantom Hitchhikers.

We have quite a few of those "hot spots" in New Jersey too..There are quite alot of roads that supposingly shouldn't be traveled at night because of people seeing apparitions. I never heard of the lavender story, but we and many other states have all different version of "the lady in white"..I love urban legends because with each story through the years a little more is added on to it..

There are variations of the Lady in White and the Vanishing Hitchhiker. I have heard several versions of each and there is even a song written about the vanishing hitchhiker. The version I grew up took place in 1950. A guy was on his way to a dance in Benavides, Texas. On the way from another small town he saw a girl on the road whom he stopped and offered to take her. She agreed. Her clothing was a bit out of fashion and at the dance she was very good at dancing polkas but not so good at the cumbia, which was a newer dance, at the time in Texas.

Well afterwards he lent her his sweater and drove her home. She was insistent on being dropped off exactly where she got picked up. He wanted to take her all the way to her home since it was dangerous at night he thought but who was he to argue with a lady. So the next day he returned to the spot to pick up his sweater. He turned off a small road leading to a private ranch and stopped near a little house. Knocking on the door an old lady came out and he told her the story. She looked shock and asked if this was a joke and began crying. He told her he was certain and mentioned what she was wearing and all.

She took him to the back where they had a private cemetery and showed her her gravestone saying that was what she was wearing when she died ten years earlier in a car accident. On her gravestone was his sweater. It also said she lived from 1920-1950.

Here is the story in Spanish version (link) and if I am not mistaken I have heard a version of the story that happened in the Middle East or some N. African country.

A search on this forum of "+vanishing +hitchhiker" will find a few more threads on the same topic.

A few years back I came across a statement made by a veteran traffic officer working the New Jersey Turnpike to the effect that every six months or so he encounters and has to calm down a frantic motorist who reports that a female hitchhiker has suddenly vanished from inside his/her automobile.

I can believe that, although driving on our Turnpike can make you get a little wonky...

Really? Wow, I actually didn't know that. South Little Rock would probably be along I-30 or I-630. I can't remember which one it is though.