On a cold night with frost promised, a young man stops for a girl standing alone on Gilmore Ridge. Dark hair down, a pale dress too thin for the weather, and the only thing she asks is the only thing she has ever asked anybody. She wants to go home.

This is a retelling of the vanishing hitchhiker, the oldest ghost story America has, set here in the gravel-road hills east of Lake Monroe, Indiana. This is a country of ridge cemeteries and forgotten roads, where some roads walk down off the hill and into the water and are gone. But the roads are not gone. And neither is she.

Written and narrated by Aaron Marshall, with an original score composed for this story.

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