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== Folklore ==

* A WWII Flying Fortress is hit over Europe. The young co-pilot manages to get her home, saving all aboard, thanks to the advice and moral support of his highly experienced but critically wounded captain. As soon as they land the kid runs to drag a medic onboard for his CO. The man examines the apparently unconscious officer and shakes his head. "Sorry, son," he says. "He's gone, must have died instantly."

* The [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Vanishing_hitchhiker~~ vanishing hitchhiker] [[Urban Legend]]. The story usually goes like this: Bob is driving home when he picks up Alice, a teenage hitchhiker. He drives her home and she goes into the house. He then realizes that she forgot her jacket and goes up to the house to give it back to her. Her parents answer the door. They tell him that Alice died ten years ago on the very road where he picked her up, but confirm that it is her jacket.

* The [[wikipedia:Vanishing hitchhiker|vanishing hitchhiker]] [[Urban Legend]]. The story usually goes like this: Bob is driving home when he picks up Alice, a teenage hitchhiker. He drives her home and she goes into the house. He then realizes that she forgot her jacket and goes up to the house to give it back to her. Her parents answer the door. They tell him that Alice died ten years ago on the very road where he picked her up, but confirm that it is her jacket.

** Subject of Bringing Mary Home by The Country Gentlemen. The jacket being replaced with [[Tear Jerker|a monologue by the mother of the girl thanking him ]], you can watch it played live here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFLZfv7Vw8

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** In season six Laverne is in an accident and declared brain dead. While the other characters come to say their goodbyes, Carla refuses to do so, and is followed around by a "ghost" Laverne until she finally accepts the loss.

*** Carla then asks Dr. Cox if he's ever seen ghosts of dead patients. In true Coxian fashion, he tells her "No, but then again, I'm not a crazy person." The writers wanted Ben to show up again then, but Ben's actor was busy doing something else, forcing them to do a much worse joke.

* In the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Unquiet Dead", the Doctor feels Gwyneth's pulse and realises she's cold and has been dead for some time, even though she's still moving and talking.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Unquiet Dead", the Doctor feels Gwyneth's pulse and realises she's cold and has been dead for some time, even though she's still moving and talking.

** "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" does this, as well. One of the archaeologists follows him around for quite some time before the Doctor notices that she no longer has two shadows and has had the flesh eaten off her bones.

** In "[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap/S31 E04 The Time of Angels|The Time of Angels]]", the Doctor is talking to Sacred Bob on the comm device, who tells him he's coming to them. Bob then reveals he's dead, the angels are using his voice, and by him coming to them, he means ''the angels coming to get them''...

** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E04 The Time of Angels|The Time of Angels]]", the Doctor is talking to Sacred Bob on the comm device, who tells him he's coming to them. Bob then reveals he's dead, the angels are using his voice, and by him coming to them, he means ''the angels coming to get them''...

* Melinda's best friend/business partner in the season 1 finale of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]''.

* Subverted in ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' where Janeway seems to be [[Dead All Along]] in one episode - but really isn't.

* In an episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', a woman on a road trip of some sort continuously sees the same hitchhiker along her way. The woman turns out to be dead, and the hitchhiker turns out to be Death.

* ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' had an episode wherein the ''Defiant'' stumbles upon a [[Distress Call|distress signal]] from a [[Canon Sue|Starfleet captain]] and is eventually able to communicate with her. They become friends and eventually discover that she's running out of supplies, but if they push their engines to the limit they should be able to get there in time--until it's discovered that some of her supplies are tainted, moving the deadline up significantly. Taking a big risk, they push the engines to the limit and found the planet--only to discover that the captain had been dead for three years. An [[Negative Space Wedgie|unusual energy field]] had been playing havoc with time; she was dead before they started.

* In the series finale of ''[[~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', it's revealed that Starbuck really did die when her Viper exploded. The "returned" Kara Thrace is an "angel", just like Head-Six and Head-Baltar, the only difference being that everybody can see Starbuck.

* In the series finale of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', it's revealed that Starbuck really did die when her Viper exploded. The "returned" Kara Thrace is an "angel", just like Head-Six and Head-Baltar, the only difference being that everybody can see Starbuck.

** Another theory is that Starbuck was literally returned from the dead in another corporeal body, not as a "Head" character. This would fit with older European religious beliefs such as the Greek.

** To clarify for those not familiar with the series: nothing is actually explained, and the matter is left open to [[Wild Mass Guessing|speculation]]. However, she does pull an otherwise improbable [[Stealth Hi Bye]] in the middle of an empty field.

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