Ernest W. Baughman's Type- and Motif-Index of the Folk Tales of England and North America (1966) delineates the basic vanishing hitchhiker as follows: Ghost of young woman asks for ride in automobile, disappears from closed car without the driver's knowledge, after giving him an address to which she wishes to be taken.
I boken Type- and Motif-Index of the Folk Tales of England and North America (1966) skriver Ernest W. Baughman: Spöken av unga kvinnor ber om skjuts i ett fordon, försvinner från det stängda fordonet utan förarens vetskap, efter att ha givit denne en adress som den vill ta sig till.