Case file · Haunting
The Uniondale hitchhiker
Drivers on the road near Uniondale in the Karoo report picking up a young woman who vanishes from the car; she is said to have died in a crash there on Easter 1968.
1968 CE · -33.66, 23.12 · status: legend
The account
Sightings were reported to police in the 1970s, and the press turned it into a national legend, with people waiting at the spot each Easter.
The sceptical view
A local form of the worldwide 'vanishing hitchhiker' urban legend; reports cannot be checked.