Vanishing Hitchhiker Myths

It was a regular sunday morning around 6 a.m. when Mrs. Robinson was taking her daily run in the morning. She jogged around the perimeter of the neighborhood at a fair speed while she pondered her plans for the day. Would she go grocery shopping, would she go out with some friends, or would she just stay at home and continue to grade papers, as she was a school teacher. These thoughts were brought to an abrupt halt when she saw something very peculiar in the corner of her eye. She approached what appeared to be a hunched over figure next to one of the rose bushes that lined the fence of the neighborhood. As she got closer, she realized what it was.

He also shares a story about how his son sat his date in the back of Cedric's car waiting for Cedric to take them to their date location. Cedric just couldn't believe his son thought he was going to drive them around as if he was an Uber

One night when walking home, Shadow finds his inherited car missing and immediately assumes that El Duran stole it. His gang drives to a rival gang party to execute El Duran. Little Sleepy fires the deadly shot. At this same party, La Blue Eyes realizes that El Duran is Juan, who was just a sweet talker the whole time. The next day, a young boy in the neighborhood admits that he “borrowed” the car and crashed it on the steep streets of Echo Park during a joy ride. In retaliation, El Duran’s followers the little girl standing by Little Sleepy on the sidewalk the next day, thinking she’s his. But that little girl was actually Big Sleepy’s daughter. The movie ends with the females becoming independent and starting their own operations. Sad Girl says,

     One of the most important scenes in the story takes place in the vehicle. The grandmother spots an old family graveyard that once belonged to a plantation. She tells the children that the graves

From the time they all got in the car to the time they got out, all the grandmother did was talk. She was trying to talk her way to Tennessee and she talked her way into them detouring to go see some house that the grandmother

She opens the door, and finds a gift on the floor (extremely flat). Scene 5: She opens it, and a toy “Merry-go-round horse” inside of the box. Scene 6: The gift is running with a beautiful melody. The girl stares at it with a smile on her face.(she is happy.) Scene 7: After a time, she begins to experience hallucinations.

At (Eleventh & Prospect) the two girls separated to go to their homes, and victim turned east on Prospect, and was seized by (Perkins) and dragged to a garage. Glasys’

Every day she and her little sister had to walk through a dangerous part of town to get to the bus that took them to

I encountered a peculiar individual on the sidewalks this evening. I can recall that “ The girl stopped and looked as if she might pull back in surprise (Page 4)”. Nervousness shook my body as this mysterious girl applied a sense of mystery to herself. She asked me a variety of questions that i firmly responded too as I soon realized that she was our new neighbor. She was an odd one, she even described herself as crazy, the young ones these days.

As I was going up 4th Street, I saw a lot of men under guard and I was hurrying on to overtake them to see what the trouble was [when] I met a woman who hailed me and commenced conversation. She asked if I knew who those men were. I told her I did not but presumed they were bounty jumpers and they were taking them to some safe place. She said if I had started to run away, they would not take me

The trip to the church that was in the middle of nowhere was a 20-minute drive from the city of Asheboro and the roads were seemingly nonexistent. Fortunately, there were signs posted along the country dirt roads to guide the drivers towards the parking lot. The first thing that can be seen after getting out of the car was a small

After that, a car came down the road and was flagged down by the grandmother. It was at this time that the family encountered the Misfit, who

She stays in her home and never comes out. The town is filled with hear say gossip and the townspeople only know what they hear about her. Nothing is understood until the sickening truth is found out about her. It is all just one big mystery to them until her bedroom is unlocked.

Urban legends have been passed down from one generation to the next for thousands of years. These stories, however can be found all throughout our society. One of the reasons why they are so prevalent in our society is because they are focused on topics that play key roles in our lives. There are urban legends that are filled with horror, anxiety, sadness humor etc., but most of all they prove to teach valuable lessons. During my research, the Vanishing Hitchhiker stuck out to me. On this interesting story I will provide a summary, research and personal analysis.

Many of the actions such as appearing are ghost-like actions. A regular girl could not just show up in an instant. Also, it is very paranormal for the girl to swing her doll and have it echo a bell. This leads to show that the girl is a ghost. Also, the girl was