The ghostly hitchhiker of the North Platte River road stories
- Date of account
- Modern retellings; source history requires verification
- Location
- Nebraska, United States; exact road attribution varies
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Nebraska has several local vanishing-hitchhiker traditions attached to highways, bridges, and river roads, including stories in which a passenger disappears before reaching an address or is identified with a person killed in an earlier crash. This lead is potentially useful for comparing rural American roadside folklore with better documented named cases. It is deliberately provisional: the North Platte attribution is not a single securely bounded incident in model memory, and similar stories circulate across the state. Only retain a version after locating a named publication, locality, witness, or archival source.
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