[1] In January 1981 a modern myth circulated, dealing with a "white woman" (weisse Frau) of the Bölchentunnel.

Shaped as an old white-clothed hitchhiking woman, a ghost (though not initially recognized as such) appears out of nowhere in front of the drivers and sometimes even speaks to them.

The first written reports of the phenomenon, dated June 1980, involve a male hitchhiker who was picked up but eventually vanished from the vehicle, despite the driver's high speed.

Two female jurists picked up an inconspicuously dressed, clumsy, pale, middle-aged woman in Eptingen.

A re-edited edition of the Baselbieter Sagen mentions similar cases at other Basel places: "the Heidegg castle's lady," "the maiden on the goat," and "the grey woman in Zunzgen."