Urban Myth: Hitchhiker Mary

00:00:04: The hitchhiker motif is both a myth and legend.

00:00:09: In other words, it's big legends but also an urban legend very specified.

00:00:13: the most famous of the Hitchhiker Legends on the road of course is Resurrection Mary.

00:00:17: out at Chicago guys driving home one night And he sees girl in the side-of-the-road in dance dress holding her shoes in hand bit disheveled But okay pulls over picks up.

00:00:27: the most you can get our though Is that?

00:00:30: Her name is Mary and she has an address to bring here too.

00:00:33: So he drives on the way over there, they pass Resurrection Cemetery and in that moment she's gone.

00:00:41: Now He of course is incredibly spooked but pulls himself together wants to get to bottom mystery.

00:00:46: so he drives out to address her gave him.

00:00:49: He knocks on door.

00:00:52: an elderly couple answers.

00:00:53: the door looks at sadly say you hear about Mary aren't ya?

00:00:58: Well yeah I don' come sit down.

00:01:02: Thirty years ago our daughter Mary went a dance Got in a fight with her boyfriend, stormed off and tried to walk home.

00:01:11: She was struck by car on the way home.

00:01:15: she's buried in Resurrection Cemetery... ...she has been trying get back for thirty years And never made it.

00:01:23: Now.

00:01:23: that story had many forms & names & different versions In some.

00:01:27: she is a prophetess of doom!

00:01:30: In Some she simply harbors.

00:01:32: It will happen there no way out Of it!

00:01:34: She simply nudges things in one direction or another, and then some she's an actual outright monster.

00:01:43: She takes on many forms and many fashions But we'll be talking about her and many more urban legends like her On gauge illuminations.

00:01:50: So you want me to drop ya off somewhere?

00:01:55: Here car wet.