Reeder Road

Indiana · USA · Cemetery

Elizabeth Wilson drowned when the car she was in went off Reeder Road into the swamp. Drivers say she asks for a lift and gets as far as the cemetery she.

Reeder Road runs between Merrillville and Griffith in Indiana, through swamp on both sides. The account behind its reputation concerns a girl named Elizabeth Wilson, who drowned when the car she was riding in left the road and went into the water.

Drivers describe seeing her waiting at the roadside at night, asking for a lift home to a house further along the road. Those who give her one report that she gets as far as Ross Cemetery before she is no longer in the car. She was buried in Ross Cemetery in 1955.

The road has a second and grimmer history. During the height of Chicago's mafia activity in the 1930s, this stretch was used to dispose of bodies, precisely because it was out of the way and hardly travelled. Most were never recovered from the swamp.

That is what separates Reeder Road from the ordinary vanishing hitchhiker story. The hitchhiker has a name, a grave and a date. The swamp she went into has been holding onto other people since long before she did.

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Reeder Road liegt in Indiana, USA.