Niles Canyon ghost

The Niles Canyon Ghost urban legend is a San Francisco Bay Area variation on the vanishing hitchhiker. There are different variations, with all stories having a girl involved in a motor vehicle accident on February 26 (the year varies). One variation has the girl involved in a car crash on Niles Canyon road (off the 680 freeway in Sunol, California) on the way to her prom. The girl died on impact and is said to haunt Niles Canyon road every February 26. People traveling along Niles Canyon road (now highway 84) on the night of February 26 will reportedly see a normal looking high school aged girl walking along the road in a prom dress (sometimes the dress is white). Travelers, often lone travelers, are said to have stopped and offered the girl a ride. She accepts the ride, giving the driver an address across either the Dumbarton or Bay Bridge. Once the driver gets to the beginning of the bridge the girl will disappear. Sometimes people have gone to the address to find that a girl many years ago matching that description once lived there. People have traveled along the road hoping to catch a glimpse of the Niles Canyon ghost.

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