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Jan Harold Brunvand
American folklorist whose 1981 book The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings established modern urban legend studies as a field, using the story as its title case.
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Jan Harold Brunvand authored The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings.
Creatures & Figures
Jan Harold Brunvand popularised Vanishing Hitchhiker.