From: devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Hitchhiking Ghost
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:32:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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I was told this story by a long-time resident of Athens, Ohio.  She and her 
husband have been involved with music for years and have performed together 
and separately off and on for years.  Laura told me this story...

Randy (the husband) was playing with his band in Columbus, Ohio, and he was 
gone for the weekend.  I wasn't in a band then; I was working in a 
restaurant in town here (Athens).  I was driving home, back then we lived 
in a big, cheap house about 10 miles outside of Athens in the middle of 
nowhere, when I passed that memorial gardens--the one that doesn't allow 
tombstones but just plaques flush with the grass so you can mow over them--
well, it was early Saturday morning and I saw this hitchhiker.  He was a 
young guy in jeans and a blue work shirt with light blond hair.  If it was 
daytime, I'd probably picked him up, but it was real late, and I thought 
better of it.

A couple of miles later, I saw another hitchhiker, and when I got close, it 
sure looked like the same kid.  I was scared real bad, and I pushed on the 
gas to get by him quickly.  After I passed him, I checked my rearview 
mirror a few times and saw him standing along the road where I passed him--
That's until I saw him in my backseat!

I saw his eyes and his hair and his smile, and I screamed real hard and 
jumped and shook all over.  Then, when I looked again, he was gone.  I 
slowed down and looked over the back of the seat, but he wasn't there.  I 
figured I was tired and imagining things and probably saw my own reflection
, so when I got home, I went to bed and slept soundly.

The next afternoon, I went into work and really forgot all about the stupid 
thing.  I didn't expect Randy home until early in the afternoon on Sunday, 
so when some friends invited me to stay the night in Athens, I decided to 
take them up on it.

I got home at about 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning to find Randy on the porch 
with his shotgun over his knees.  He said that the band decided to drive 
straight home from the Columbus gig; he had gotten home at about 5:00 a.m. 
and had gone to bed.

Randy said that he heard some noise downstairs at about 8:00 a.m. and 
figured it was me coming in.  He said he started down the stairs and then 
went back for his gun when he saw someone standing with his back to the 
stairs.  Randy said that he came back and yelled at the guy, and the guy 
spun around and saw the gun---and ran through the wall of the house without 
making a hole; the guy just ran through a solid wall without making a hole.

I asked Randy what they guy looked like, and, you already guessed it, I bet
 the guy looked like the guy I had seen hitchhiking and in my backseat.  I 
guess I must have given him a ride anyhow...

That's the story the way it was told to me about six years ago.  Any of you 
have any hitchhiking ghosts?

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