Vanishing hitchhikers of the world
The world's most-travelled passenger, country by country — the vanishing rides of five continents. Open the world map to see them plotted.
Balete Drive
A · Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines — A quiet street in New Manila lined — once — with balete trees, where taxi drivers still refuse to travel alone at night because a girl in white might get in, and never appear in the mirror.…
Delhi Cantonment — The Lady in White at the Roadside
B · Delhi Cantonment, Delhi, India — In the leafy military district of south-west Delhi, India's most canonical modern road legend: a woman in a white sari who flags down cars at night, asks for a lift or a location, and vanishes — with …
The Gray Man of Pawleys Island
B · Pawleys Island, South Carolina, United States — A figure in a gray coat who walks the beach before hurricanes — a ghost South Carolina has been sighting for two centuries, and whose appearances the island counts the way other towns count sirens.…
Resurrection Mary — Archer Avenue's Vanishing Hitchhiker
A · Justice, Illinois, United States — Chicago's most famous ghost — a young woman in a white dress who dances at the ballroom, takes a ride down Archer Avenue, and steps out at the cemetery gate, leaving no footprints and no past.…
The Uniondale Hitchhiker — Maria Roux on the N9
B · Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa — South Africa's most famous road ghost: a bride-to-be killed in 1968, said to climb into cars on the Karoo highway and vanish from the passenger seat.…