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OK, this happened to us, we promise. Driving through the suburbs one night, we saw a young woman in a white dress on the side of the road. We pulled over and asked if she needed a ride, which she accepted. After a short drive, she asked to be dropped off just past the gates of a cemetery. By the time the car stopped, she was gone.

Vanishing hitchhiker legends are just the latest version of a folktale that may go back millennia — and continue to spread and evolve. Atlas Obscura explores the history of these classic creepy stories: https://flip.it/.pzoi5
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