Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Roads and travel paths have long been popular settings for stories of ghosts and demons. Among the most famous? The vanishing hitchhiker! A seemingly unsuspecting person hails down a driver on a lone road, asking for a ride to a destination...only to disappear in transit! A classic and spooky tale...but where did it begin?

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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.

MUSIC:
"Foreboding" by Adrian von Ziegler
"Horror Ambience" by ESN Productions
"Cliffside" by Samuel Orson

CLIPS:
Stock footage of various roads

OPENING:
fiverr.com/saif_edits

ARTISTS FEATURED:
K. Nami L art
Raj Sanket
Monika Krzywickka
Wallace Kong
Carl Brandt
Mattias Edstrom

REFERENCES:
atlasobscura.com/articles/vanishing-hitchhiker-urban-legend
storymuseum.org.uk/1001-stories/the-vanishing-hitchhiker
jstor.org/stable/1500246
witchlike.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/resurrection-mary

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