THIS BRIDGE CROSSES THE WATEREE RIVER AT THE RICHLAND AND SUMTER COUNTY LINE.SUMTER HIGHWAY.I WAS COMING FORM GEORGETOWN TO COLUMBIA AND SAW THIS SILVERY/GRAY LOOKING WOMEN/GIRL. I DID NOT SEE HER IN TIME TO STOP. WHEN I GOT TO OTHER SIDE I TURNED AROUND. SHE HAD GONE BEFORE I GOT BACK.WE SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND WAIT FOR HER IN GOOD WEATHER AND IN BAD.IF YOU HAVE A GOOD VIDEO CAMERA WITH PLEANTY OF GOOD BATTERIES AND DISCS OR TAPE PLEASE CALL ME AT (803)7995732, JAMES

I watched this movie and it was called the Hitchhiker. In this movie, the girl needed a ride and said “I need a ride because I need to go visit my grandpa”. She was talking about how she was trustworthy or something like that. I believe that was based on on the story of the Ghostly Hitchiker. Plus, before the movie started it said that it was based on a true story, but I don’t know if that person is still around. Bye Bye.

I think this story is true. My uncle knows a Truck Driver who had this happen to him. My uncle told me about this story years ago. I believe this story and I think it is scary, although I would like to go to the place and see if it happens to me.

PATRICIA,

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James

This is a popular urban legend that has its origins in Chicago. There, the young woman is known as “Resurrection Mary.” Unsolved Mysteries did a story on it years ago, likely before most of you kids were born. Try some searches for it online. The original story is interesting, and of substance. Other versions were adapted to practically every other city in the country with a bridge and cemetery, and have absolutely no basis.

This is ****. I live in south Carolina and pass this road on a daily basis,fog,rain,anything and everything and I have seen nothing and have heard nothing of the sort. I mean I think I would have heard of it by now but nope. oh! I did see Graphite one time…

Hey that is really cool. well i got a really sad story for you and here it is.

There was a girl named Jenny. She was new in town. She just wanted to be a regular girl. When she finally got some friends..she started dating a boy that was on the football team. He was the quarter-back. One night Jenny and her boyfiend got invited to a party one fall. She lied and told her parents that she was going to a friends house that night. But she went up to meet her boyfriend. They went to the party that was in a cemetary. Her boyfriend and her went to the moonlight ride like everyone else. Her boyfriend started to drink.And he had got drunk. Her parents just thought of something. That the girl that Jenny said she was going to stay with had went out of town. So they went looking for Jenny. Jenny got scared because her boyfriend couldn’t drive because he was drunk. So she said “I want to go home.” He got mad at her and took off driving really fast. When they got half way down the rode the ran stright into a car. Her boyfriend and the other people were killed right then and there. Jenny was knocked out cold. They rushed all of them to the hospital. When Jenny woke up she found out that her boyfriend and the other people were dead. And she said ” tell the family of the other people that were killed that I am sorry.” Then she leaned over and died. And the man that had found them said ” why didn’t you tell her that was her parents that had got killed?”

Wasn’t that a really said story? I think it is. It makes me want to cry!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds to me like jenny shouln’t have lied to her parents. This just shows what happens when you lie, people die.

Ok to add to this freaky story if anyone happens to go to Pelion or has heard this story. I was driving home one night from work and I swear I thought I had almost hit someone riding a bike at the corner of 302 and Old Charleston Hwy. I had never told anyone about this until a couple of years ago when I was talking to some friends and they had told me they heard about it before. There is some man that was killed on his bike years ago that rides his bike up and down that road. I remember when I looked back, there was no one there. Not the first time I had seen a ghost, wont be the last.

I know that the phantom hitchhiker is a common type of ghost story, but strange as it may seem, I believe from my own experience that some of these stories are true. That’s because I saw the Wateree Swamp apparition myself on a rainy, foggy night in the early 1980s, when I was returning to Columbia from Sumter. She looked like a living person, but there was a strange glow around her that looked unworldly, and she didn’t have a flashlight. I thought immediately that she was the ghost and I’m ashamed to say I was so convinced she was that I didn’t stop for her. I simply didn’t think I could stand the shock of her disappearing. I swear that I was sober and clearheaded that night. I remember clearly what she was wearing, and what her face looked like, and would appreciate it if anyone else who has seen her would describe her appearance, so that we could compare notes, so to speak. I also would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows the identity of the accident victim who may have become the ghost. I’ve become fascinated with the story because of my experience, which convinced me that this apparition really occurs at or near the U.S. 76-378 bridge.

Man I am only an hour from Columbia and have never seen it. Been up and down that road at all hours. May have to take another trip one day.

HOLY **** I WENT THERE AND MY FRIEND DIED!! NOOOOOOOO!

I believe and that good for the reader to believe its true. I think you could write more great horror stories if you put your mind to it.You may possibly write a book one day. GOOD LUCK!

Amber

I think its true and its great for the reader to think its true too. If you keep writing like this you may be able to write a book one day. GOOD LUCK!

Amber

There’s versions of this legend that are older than the invention of the automobile, and as far away as London or other European cities.

Also, if you type like “u no ur lyke wat i meen lololz” or other such gibberish, do the world a favor and kill yourself. Thanks.

Hey I have heard many stories that envolves a bridge and some kind of car accident. there really is a similar story in just about every town you go to. But some have actually been proven to be true. anyways i came on this website because im looking for some REAL haunted places that i could actually go and investigate. but its really hard to find legitimate places or get an address to them. Im trying to start my own paranormal group for south carolina but its hard to do that when you have nothing to go and incestigate. so if anyone knows of some places that are legitimate please let me know.

Hey I have heard many stories that envolves a bridge and some kind of car accident. there really is a similar story in just about every town you go to. But some have actually been proven to be true. anyways i came on this website because im looking for some REAL haunted places that i could actually go and investigate. but its really hard to find legitimate places or get an address to them. Im trying to start my own paranormal group for south carolina but its hard to do that when you have nothing to go and incestigate. so if anyone knows of some places that are legitimate please let me know.

My e-mail is : crystalwsc@yahoo.com

i sort of believe this story because anything is possible but than again.. there are TOO MANY stories that are similar to this one
but i will say again… Anything is possible
~Imperfect Angel~

My uncle once saw a ghost..at this island..you people dont know it was a small island called Micronesia..Federated states of Micronesia..he was scared to death..he was cutting grass at his place..when suddenly he felt this negetive energy..coming right behind him..he said that the man was his cousin…his cousin died long time ago..he was running away from him..and then suddenly an old man grabed him..he said that the old man saved him…he was from the light side..we all didnt know what was the light side mean…and the ghost still follows..now my uncle is at Wisconsin…he said that he still sees him..and he said that the man whos always hunting him..says…I WILL NEVER STOP UNTIL I GET WHAT I WANT.

man that’s why i have been haering stories about graves and stuff thats under the brige going to COLUMBIA.