Cedar Valley Road in Rogersville is said to have an atypical vanishing hitchhiker, one that is more frightening than most in this genre. Most phantom hitchhiker legends are unremarkable, as illustrated by a website titled “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson: The most common version of the legend involves a driver who stops for a strange girl on a highway, then during the course of the ride realizes his hitchhiker has disappeared. Upon arriving at the address the girl had mentioned, the driver learns from her relatives that she has been dead for years.Another popular version stars a hitchhiker who makes a prophesy before vanishing in front of the driver's eyes. Good crops, the end of a war, a natural catastrophe about to strike, or the imminent coming of Jesus have been predicted by these vanishing prophets. At the completion of some of these tales, the driver seeks out the police to report the incident and is told A Hawkins County resident who wished to go by her initials R. C. reported to Justin H. Guess, co-founder of the Haunt Masters Club: Tri-Cities Parapsychological Research & Investigation that the road is haunted by a former resident that does not fit this mythos. She reported that the ghost is an elderly lady wearing far too much make-up who appears in the backseat of cars travelling down this windy road. When the driver catches a glimpse of the painted lady and turns around, the woman is no longer in the backseat. 
