Old Man Rivers

Indiana · USA · Bridge

Coming into Mecca from the east past the bridge, a large man in flannel carrying a strimmer or a chainsaw will try to get into your car.

Come into Mecca, Indiana from the east, past the bridge, and you may see him: a big man in a flannel shirt, carrying a strimmer, or a chainsaw, or both.

He will try to get into the car.

If you let him in he asks to be taken to the White Horse, and on the way he talks about how hard he has worked.

This is the vanishing hitchhiker again, and it is worth noting how completely the details have been localised. He is not a young woman in a white dress. He is a working man with tools, who wants a lift to the pub and wants to tell you about his day.

That is a far more Indiana version of the story than the one that circulates everywhere else, and it suggests a real man behind it that somebody around Mecca once knew.

The road is public.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Old Man Rivers?

Old Man Rivers ligger i Indiana, USA.