The following story was told in November 1991 in Hilversum.

Sometime in November, a man was drivmg on a motorway near Laren (like Hilversum, this is a place in the province of North Holland). He had invited a hitchhiker standing along the road to take a seat inside his car. Sitting beside the man, the hitchhiker struck up a conversation. The contents of this short talk can in no way be described as trivial. It was a monologue, in which the hitchhiker made an appeal to the man to reflect on some more spiritual values in life. In doing so, he reminded him of the upcoming feast of Christmas.

Very suddenly, any form of a tangible passenger could no longer be discerned in the car. Completely distressed, the man pulled over to the side of the road. Some police officers carrying out their road traffic surveillance duties urged him to drive on, and told him of having heard similar stories several times that afternoon.

The regional newspaper of Hilversum also carried a report of the "strange" events.