The World Around Us #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Hitchhiker," a lost couple seeking shelter with the kindly Mrs. Jenkins are left unsettled when they learn, upon leaving, that the house they stayed in had burned down exactly a year prior—killing her. Returning to the ruins, they discover their own envelope, still sealed with the money they left behind. Art by Gray Morrow, this eerie, grounded tale from 1960 lingers in the quiet spaces between memory and reality.
In the quiet hum of a rainy night, a doctor picks up a young woman hitchhiking along a forgotten road—only to find her vanished by the time he reaches her supposed home. Her parents, stunned and grieving, tell him their daughter died in a car crash years ago, and that he’s not the first to have tried to bring her back.
A weary couple seeking shelter stumbles upon the kindness of elderly Mrs. Jenkins, only to leave her an envelope of money in secret before continuing on their way. When they learn the house burned down exactly a year prior—killing her—they return to the ruins, where the envelope remains, untouched, and the money still inside.
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Reprinted in Alt i bilder #13 (1961), Wereld in beeld #13 (1961), World Illustrated #513 (1961), Unsere Welt Illustrierte #13, Världsserien #13
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