Welcome back everyone - a while ago I talked about scary Hitchhiking stories.
You guys seemed to love it.
I think Hitchhiking may be less common these days, especially with the rise of ride sharing
apps - maybe thats why it makes it so interesting to us?
Especially when things go horribly wrong.
These are some examples of that, and they arent for the faint hearted.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Hitchhiking Stories Part 2.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Triangle of Death.
In the 1980s, the Marne region of France became known was the triangle of death.
Young army soldiers from the 3 different garrisons in the area kept mysteriously disappearing,
ofen while hitchhiking.
It started in 1980 with 19 year old Patrick Dubois.
Over the next 7 years, 7 more men vanished in the area.
After a year, the polices investigation had led them to Pierre Chanal as a culprit.
He was also a former officer in the French army.
A police patrol found him in a camper van parked suspiciously by the side of a country
road.
They discovered hed been video taping the rape and torture of a Hungarian hitchhiker
hed abducted.
He was given 10 years for the crime and released on probation in 95.
After though, advances in DNA evidence found traces of 3 of the missing soldiers that had
vanished in the triangle of death.
In 2001, Chanal was charged with 3 murders.
In 2003, not long after the start of his trial, he committed suicide in his prison hospital.
Moving on to number 9 we have The Creep.
This one was told by HootBear on Reddit.
Im gonna read this in her own words -I was 18 at the time, driving to get some food on
my lunch break.
I saw a man probably in his '50s trying to hitch a ride.
I was pretty hesitant to stop so I drove by.
I felt guilty though, remembering my mom always stopping to help people stranded on the road,
homeless, out of gas, etc., so I turned around and offered a ride.
He introduced himself (name I cannot remember), and thanked me profusely - he apparently had
groceries and told me he didn't want his meat to spoil in the hot NM weather.
He asked to be dropped off at the post office, which was not too far away.
As I drove off, he stared at me for a good minute and the sirens went off in my head.
Awkward, creepy, and unsettling.
After a bit he blurted out 'You sure are pretty,' and asked me for a number.
I said no, I have a boyfriend and I am not interested in the least bit.
He kept asking, and insisting my relationship status was irrelevant.
I asked him to stop and he became aggressive.
I veered into the closest turn-in, slammed on my brakes and yelled 'Is it too much to
ask for a little good karma every now and then?!
Get out of my car, you cad!
(yes I said cad).'
He gave me a blank look, then just got out much to my surprise.
He ended up forgetting his groceries, and what scared me most is the fact that there
was no meat, just some eggplants and nonsense.
Now that I'm older and hopefully smarter I will think about who I pick up a little more;
that and it also helps having my 80 lbs dog in tow-
Moving on to number 8 we have The Vanishing Lady.
If youve watched any of my Urban Legend videos you may recognise this one.
In North Carolina, some people still speak of a ghostly hitchhiker known as Lydia, the
Vanishing Lady.
People have reported that when driving down the roads there, they see a woman trying to
flag down any passing cars.
They pull over and the hitchhiker gets in.
They tell them her name is Lydia and that shes just been to a dance and is now trying
to get home.
She gives the driver an address not too far away and they agree to take her there.
Upon arrival, the driver will turn around to find that Lydia has vanished.
Confused, they go to the door and ring the bell, an old woman answers.
They explain that they picked up a woman called Lydia who wanted to be taken here but that
she just disappeared.
The old woman will smile faintly, she produces a silver picture frame with a photograph of
the hitchhiking woman.
The old woman will say to them -Lydia was my daughter, she died in a car wreck by the
overpass in 1923.
Youre not the first one, and I suppose you wont be the last.
Every so often, her spirit flags down a passing driver.
I suppose she still doesnt understand what happened to her.
I suppose shes still trying to get home-
Next up at number 7 we have Shotgun[a].
This one comes from Summat Comments.
He said his older brother picked up a hitchhiker once after a night of light drinking.
After driving for a few minutes, the man pulled out a shotgun and declared that he was going
to steal the car.
He wasnt having any of that and slammed the breaks on the car and then tried to pull the
hitchhiker out of the car to the ground, the hitchhiker pulled the trigger and blew off
a chunk of the brothers bicep before running off into the woods.
The brother made a decent recovery but still has a chunk missing from his arm and isnt
able to lift heavy things anymore.
Next up at number 6 we have Thomas Prendergast.
In November 1958, this man picked up 16 year old Hitchhiker Carl Alfred Eder from New York.
Eder was homeless and Thomas felt bad for him so he decided to let him stay with him
and his family while he got back on his feet.
One day, Thomas got back from work to find that Eder was already standing outside the
house.
He asked Thomas for a ride to San Diego.
Thomas took Eder to the service station after saying he couldn't take him all the way to
San Diego.
When Thomas returned home he made a horrifying discovery.
Inside, he found his wife Lois had been shot to death.
The couples four children, all younger than 9, had been murdered with a hunting nife.
Eder was captured two days later.
He told police he had snapped when one of the children made too much noise.
He went sentenced to prison but after escaped after 16 years, leaving behind a note that
read -Ive done enough time and Im leaving- … he is still on the loose today.
If he is still alive, Eder is 76 years old - there is currently a 20,000 reward for his
captures.
Moving on to number 5 we have Amy Billig.
On March 5th 1974, 17 year old Amy hitchhiked through the Miami area on her own.
She was planning to visit her fathers office but never arrived at her destination.
Amys camera was found but she never was.
As the case went cold, Amys own mother, Susan, took it upon herself to find her daughter.
She was led on many wild goose chases that yielded no results.
Eventually, a biker named Paul Brunch told Susan that Amy had been abducted while hitchhiking
by a biker gang named The Pagans.
On his deathbed, its said that he confessed to his wife that Amy actually overdosed on
the same day she disappeared while attending a party held by The Pagans.
They decided to feed her body to alligators in the Florida Everglades.
Susan died in 2005, still no closer to find out the truth of what happened to her daughter,
and if those brutal rumours were true …
Coming in at number 4 we have Back of The Head.
This one was told by VerySleepy24, they said -There's this middle aged man who lives in
the town I'm from.
He was a genuinely sweet and caring person.
And mind, this is a really small town.
One day, he picked up a hitchhiker just outside of town.
He told him to jump in the bed of the truck, and he'll drive him to Walmart.
About halfway there, the hitch hiker shot him in the back of the head for no reason.
He didn't even steal anything.
And if I remember correctly, he got caught.
Henry didn't die, but he's permanently disabled and has severe brain damage.
I remember when I first heard that, and it scared the crap out of me.
This was probably about 12-years-ago now, but I still think about anytime someone talks
about hitchhikers.
It scares me to think someone would do something like that, just because …-
Moving on to number 3 we have The Walhalla Hitchhiker.
This one is in the same vein as the Vanishing Lady we talked about earlier.
In South Carolina, local legend says that in the 1950s, a pilot called Larry Stephens
was flying over Oconee County when a hailstorm hit the area.
Stephens couldn't see a thing and ended up crashing into some mountains nearby Highway
2017, in the Walhalla area.
Ever since then, locals have reported encounters with a hitchhiker dressed in a dark all weather
coat.
He usually appears on dark and stormy nights and asks for a different location depending
on the direction of the car.
Its believed that the Walhalla Hitchhiker is actually Larry Stephens.
The say he looks like like him and that he's even dressed in the same pilot clothes as
Stephens was when he died.
Next up at number 2 we have the The Stabbing.[b] In 2016, a Polish man called Merek was travelling
across Ireland.
After getting buses along the way, he decided he would try and do some hitchhiking.
After a while, a family driving in a white Nissan hatchback picked him up.
There were two children in the back, one was about 7 or 8 and the other was just a 6 month
old baby.
Merek climbed into the car and started chatting about his travels.
Everything seemed fine at first but after about 15 minutes, he heard all the car doors
lock.
Merek remembered seeing the female passenger sending a text to someone just a few minutes
before.
The male driver came off the main road and pulled over.
A green car pulled up nearby, a man and a woman got out of it and started approaching
them.
He threw his wallet out and told them to take his money - but they didnt want that.
The two new people and the driver produced knives and proceeded to stab him so many times
that when paramedics arrived on the scene he was told he was 5 minutes from losing his
life.
Merek said to scariest part was that the driver looked happy while stabbing him.
Its been a long road to recovery since, but Merek did survive …
And finally at number 1 we have The Orange Sock.[c] On January 6th 1982, 29 year old
Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer phoned her husband Jeff to let her know that she was hanging out at
a bar with friends and was going to hitchhike home.
She never made it back.
Jeff searched for her and eventually found Bobbies body in a remote field, she was riddled
with bullets.
Stangely, an orange sock that did not belong to her was found nearby.
6 months later, the body of 21 year old missing woman Annette Kay was found 13 miles away
from where Bobbies was found - heres where it gets really strange - Anette was wearing
the matching orange sock.
Police believed it was the same killer who had picked the hitchhiker's and murdered them.
Annettes orange sock was likely left behind in the killers vehicle and somehow fell out
at the location Bobbie was murdered.
Jeff was originally a suspect but his name was cleared, leaving the Orange Sock Murders
officially unsolved ..
Well those were all very grim.
Hopefully it hasnt scared you of every strange in the world.
I think its good to have a healthy balance of trust and skepticism - what side do you
lean towards most?
Let me know what youd like to see next on the channel, thanks as always for watching,
my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next one!