"North Carolinians like to claim Lydia’s story as their own, but the tale of the vanishing hitchhiker is widespread." Revisit one of our favorite 👻 essays, by Elizabeth Friend, on ghost stories passed down across generations: https://longreads.com/2024/10/29/lydia-ghost-story-folklore-north-carolina/ #Longreads #Ghosts #NorthCarolina #Legends #Folklore #Myth