Since the 1950s, there have been sightings of a female hitchhiker carrying a canvas travel bag on Highway 48 near Columbia, South Carolina. We don’t know much about her, but here is what we know. She mysteriously vanishes once she is inside someone’s vehicle when approaching Columbia. The phenomenon has continued freaking motorists out to this day.
Drivers will see the phantom girl carrying her bag on the highway, patiently waiting for someone to offer a ride. Some drivers have reported stopping by to pick her up. And the story is always the same. She tells the individual she is heading towards Columbia to visit her sick mother.
She even gives the street name – Pickens Street. And each time the driver approaches the city, she mysteriously vanishes.
One driver decided to go to the address after the phantom girl disappeared from their vehicle. The motorist went to the home, asking about the girl, hoping to get an explanation. A man answered the door, explaining that the girl the driver described was his sister.
He told the same story as he had many times to others who knocked on his door: She was driving to Columbia to see their sick mother, and died in a traffic accident many years before.
Written By John G. Clark Jr.
