Season of Shadows Blog

In continuing with entries pertaining to urban legends, today’s post features three videos recounting tales of ghostly hitchhikers. Similar to La Llorona, there does appear to be legitimacy to certain parts of the legend, based on eyewitness accounts.

This first video focuses on the overall legend of ghost hitchhikers:

Source: YT user, twothumbsupdvd

This next piece features a man’s personal experience with a ghostly passenger:

Source: YT user, tombstoner79

This last vid contains personal and second-hand experiences with a faceless roadside phantom:

Source: YT user, shane8109

In closing this post, I’d like to relate a true story that I’ve only shared with a couple of people:

Roughly twelve years ago, I had an early morning encounter of my own with what appeared to be two phantom-like pedestrians. I had just finished working the graveyard shift and was headed home between 3 and 4 AM. The particular stretch of road I was traveling ran right through a sleepy village whose origins date back to the 1600′s.

As I approached an area where the road straightened out for a good distance, I noticed nothing unusual or out of the ordinary. The moon was full and my headlights were illuminating my path extremely well.

After a few seconds, I saw what appeared to be two objects up ahead and to the right, in a location where there had been nothing just moments before. Always on the lookout for something spooky, this struck me as odd and since, at this ungodly hour, there were no other motorists out, I slowed down well below the 35 mph speed limit.

Drawing closer, I could see the objects were two “people” standing a few feet from the edge of the road. They weren’t hitchhiking, they were simply standing there, up to their knees in weeds, facing towards my oncoming headlights.

As I slowly drove past their location, I could see no discernible facial features whatsoever on either one of them. That fact, in and of itself, was enough to freak me out, but after passing them up, I immediately looked in the rear-view mirror and despite the moonlight, neither one was visible! It seemed both had vanished.

Unfortunately, I have no way to prove what I saw, so my experience joins the annals of the ghostly hitchhiker legend. Since I never saw them again; there were no other witnesses and I had no proof to verify who or what they were, I’ve always been tight-lipped about sharing this particular experience, but after watching the faceless ghost vid, I was inspired to put it in writing.

An interesting sidenote to this story:

The location where I spotted these two strange individuals is roughly two or three miles from a cemetery. This is the same cemetery where my mom and I encountered what we believe to be the ghost of a woman (walking twenty feet in front of us) wandering around the headstones.

I discussed our June ’09 cemetery encounter in previous posts and on my Halloween Webcam back in October, but I’ll probably do a full blog entry with all the details in a future article.

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Tales of the Frightened

Here, in the desert southwest, the cautionary tale of “the crying woman,” better known as La Llorona has been told and retold for centuries.

Source: YT user, igorstar123

This second vid provides a peek into La Llorona’s New Mexico connection.

Source: YT user, MeneGene

As a boy, during a summertime visit to my grandparents’ home (just south of Albuquerque, NM), the neighborhood kids told me tales of the crying woman. Unfortunately, the sun had almost set by the time their storytelling had ended that day and I still needed to walk home.

Though my grandparents’ house was just a few hundred yards away, there was a ditch (brimming full of water) right outside their yard. Just my luck, I had to walk adjacent to the waterway to reach the back door of the house; all the while my mind was frantically recalling La Llorona stories! Luckily, I made it to the door, but I swear I heard the bushes moving near the water, as well as a mournful wailing sound.

Whether the story of the crying woman and her ghost have any basis in fact or not, they definitely have served as a method for trying to keep children away from rivers, arroyos and ditches. In New Mexico, there was even a bumper sticker campaign, a few years back, that featured a “witchy” cartoon woman standing next to the slogan, “Ditches are Deadly. Stay Away!”

With that being said, I’m not insinuating the lady in the above video was lying. I believe she witnessed something, but without more evidence, I’m not ready to say it was definitely the legendary crying woman’s ghost looking for her lost children.