Round Two: Local Legends/Urban Myths?

I live in San Francisco. Just across the bay is Berkeley and University of California. It is told that in the 1930's, a man in a car saw a college girl with books standing at a streetcar stop long after they had shut down for the night. He stopped and offered to take her home. She got in the back seat and gave her address. She told him she lived near the college where her father was a professor. She was quiet then. When the man reached her home, he turned to talk to her. She had disappeared. He saw one of her books on the seat. He went to the door with it and knocked. The professor came and told the man that his daughter was killed in a car wreck ten years ago at the spot where the man saw her. Since then, men often bring her home. The book found in the car was missing from the bookcase. There are many versions for centuries of this "Vanishing Hitchhiker" urban legend. My Japanese lover tells some from her land back to medieval times.