History & local legend
New Hope’s blue-eyed hitchhiker is a teenage boy said to appear along a wooded stretch of Bucks County road. Drivers describe blond hair, brown bell-bottom trousers and a knapsack. His most distinctive feature is the intense blue of his eyes.
The unsettling part comes after passing him. According to the story, a driver rounds another bend and sees the same boy again, still alone beside the road. The encounter can repeat at successive curves, as though he has arrived ahead of the car without taking a ride.
Writer Andrew Belonsky heard the account during a 2013 visit to New Hope. It had become part of the town’s walking-tour tradition, associated with the ghost stories collected and popularized by author Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey.
