Case: GG-2026-195
Status: Historic
Documentation rating: C
Location: Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa
The Uniondale Hitchhiking Ghost is one of South Africa's best-known vanishing-hitchhiker traditions, associated with a lonely stretch of road near Uniondale in the Western Cape. The legend developed around the real death of Maria Charlotte Roux, who was killed near the Barandas turnoff on Good Friday, 1968, when the Volkswagen Beetle carrying her and her fiancé left the road and overturned. Later motorists reported encounters with a young dark-haired hitchhiker who either disappeared after entering their vehicles or vanished before the journey could be completed, with the most famous account i…
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