The Ghost of the Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia, have their own phantom hitchhiker: a ghostly woman who appears on mountain roads, accepts rides, and then vanishes from moving vehicles.

The Encounters

Motorists report picking up a young woman on winding mountain roads. She sits silently in the back seat and gives an address in the mountains. When the driver reaches the destination, the passenger has vanished from the moving car.

In some versions, drivers learn that a young woman died in an accident on that road years before. In others, they never learn who she was.

Variations

The ghost takes different forms in different accounts. Sometimes she is wearing a white dress. Sometimes she appears soaking wet, as if caught in rain. Some drivers report feeling sudden cold before she vanishes.

Similar Stories

The Blue Mountains hitchhiker follows patterns found worldwide: a silent passenger, a request for a specific destination, disappearance from a moving vehicle, and often a connection to a past death.

Assessment

Whether the Blue Mountains ghost is a genuine spirit, urban legend adapted to local geography, or psychological phenomenon, she joins phantom hitchhikers reported from roads across every inhabited continent.