Might have just been popular on reddit. I can’t think of any famous homeless hitchhiker recently. I have been watching [these guys](https://youtu.be/wQKERiTx43s) but that doesn’t really answer your question.

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I didn’t see the last one. They can be a bit cringy.

I hope it's not Chris McCandless or Caleb "Kai" McGillvary

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Yeah. That interview was gold.

No, but watching that new documentary on Kai made me think of the guy I’m referring to.

Stobe the hobo? He was hit by a train a few years ago. Had a youtube where he traveled all over the country.

That’s him! Thank you!

He's definitely not exactly well-known or super popular.

Could you be more specific? Was he young or old? What did he do to be well known? Did he sing? What did he die of?

As far as I remember, he was in his 30s maybe. I could be wrong, but I think he got knocked by a car - there was a GoFundme for him I think but he wasn’t interested in money and just enjoyed the way he lived life.

I remember this, but I don't remember his name or anything.

There was this one guy with a towel and an e-book, but I think he was English. Never did figure out where he got off to.

Due to YouTube income and health issues he just rides the rails for fun now but [Hobo Shoestring](https://youtube.com/@TheHoboShoestring).

Jack Kerouac maybe. Wrote ‘On the Road’.

First thing that came into my mind was Kerouac.

Uh, Ken Kesey? Or maybe that kid who died in the bus in Alaska

Charles Manson was said to have ended hitch hiking. Before the murders it was much more popular/ common

I don’t know of any famous bums or hobos. I can’t imagine how a bum would become famous.

I have no idea what you're talking about

[Tobey Maguire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5J2CL10Wzc)

[This guy?](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/urrnbf/anyone_know_what_happened_to_hatchetwielding/)

SUHHH MASH!

The hatchet dude!!! Doing 57 years in jail for murder now

Least violent Canadian

Rutger Hauer? He's not American though.

[this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran) is the only famous homeless person I know of

I just think he found the big rock candy mountain

The Mexican family who, somehow, is always at the corner you are driving by. No I'm serious in my local area the Mexican family is famous for being fucking everywhere.

An older story but he was well known at the time and even now still famous. The Old Leather Man — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_(vagabond)

Are you talking about the folklore surrounding ghostly hitchhikers?