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Vanishing hitchhiker. The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle, meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. [1]
The Death of James Dean in a car accident spawned many urban legends related to his Porsche 550 nicknamed "Little Bastard". The most common one (often described as a "curse") states that any individual who took a part from Dean's car after the accident later died in an accident of their own.
Urban legends (sometimes modern legend, urban myth, ... While at least one classic legend, the "Death Car", has been shown to have some basis in fact, [21] ...
JATO Rocket Car. The account of the JATO Rocket Car was one of the original Darwin Awards winners: a man who supposedly met his death in a spectacular manner after mounting a JATO unit (a rocket engine used to help heavy aircraft to take off) onto an ordinary automobile. It was originally circulated as a forwarded email.
Tennessee: Bell Witch Cave. The legend of the Bell Witch is one of Tennessee's most infamous horror stories. In the early 19th century, John Bell and his family were tormented by a malicious ...
The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her, and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat.
Black Volga. Black Volga (Polish: czarna wołga) refers to an urban legend widespread in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Russia, [1] Belarus, Ukraine, Greece and Mongolia, [2] mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. [3][4][5][6] The legend refers to a black (or in some versions red [1]) GAZ-21 or GAZ-24 that was allegedly used to abduct and murder people.
Rudolph Fentz (also spelled as Rudolf Fenz) is the focal character of "I'm Scared", a 1951 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which was later reported as an urban legend as if the events had truly happened. The story tells of a 19th-century-looking young man possessing items of that period who is found confused in the middle of Times ...