Things You're Just Supposed to Know     Monday, August 30, 2010
From Creepy Old Crypts All Over the World               Call
them the Cadaver Dans.   Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans
1. Funny you should mention transportation technology- I had
always assumed the Doom Buggies were supposed to be some sort of
bizarre automobile, especially since dune buggies are a type of
car, and I'm pretty sure they're a 20th century kind of thing.
Also, I always associate hitchhikers with cars, although I don't
honestly know how old the practice is.    2. It's true that most
of the hitch-hiking ghost legends we are familiar with involve
cars, but such legends actually predate the advent of the
automobile, going back to horse-and-buggy days. I used to think
that the most modern reference at the HM was on the Wathel
Bender tombstone: "He rode to glory on a fender"; that is, he
died in a car wreck. But it turns out that "fender" originally
referred to the cow-catcher on the front of steam locomotives.
It "fends"