Hookman - [Legends around the world - Ep8]

Hookman

Hookman

The Hookman or The Hook, is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. 

In many versions of the story, the killer is typically portrayed as a faceless, silhouetted old man wearing a raincoat and rain hat that conceals most of his features, especially his face.

The story is thought to date from at least the mid-1950s.

Hookman Attack Illustartion

The basic premise involves a young couple cuddling in a car with the radio playing. Suddenly, a news bulletin reports that a serial killer has just escaped from a nearby institution. The killer has a hook. For varying reasons, they decide to leave quickly. In the end, the killer's hook is either found hanging from the door handle or embedded into the door itself. 

Different variations include a scraping sound on the car door. Some versions start the same way, but have the couple spotting the killer, warning others, and then narrowly escaping with the killer holding onto the car's roof. 

Hookman Scratching Board

In another version, the woman sees a shadowy figure watching the couple from nearby. The man leaves to confront the figure, who then suddenly disappears. Thinking that his date just imagined it, the man returns to the car only to see that the woman has been brutally murdered with a hook.

Hookman in the Mirror

In an alternate version, the couple drive through an unknown part of the country late at night and stop in the middle of the woods, because either the man has to urinate, or the car breaks down and the man leaves for help. While waiting for him to return, the woman turns on the radio and hears the report of an escaped mental patient. She is then disturbed many times by a thumping on the roof of the car. She eventually exits and sees the escaped patient sitting on the roof, banging the man's severed head on it.

Hookman

Another variation has the woman seeing the man's butchered body suspended upside down from a tree with his fingernails scraping against the roof. 

In another version of this variation, he's hanging right side up and either his blood is dripping on the roof or his feet are scraping against the roof. 

In other versions, the man does return to the car only to see his date brutally murdered with a hook embedded in her. 

Hookman in the Mirror

Other tales have the woman leaving the car when her date doesn't come back, only to see his mutilated body (either on the car's roof, nailed on a tree, or just a few short stops away). As she starts to panic, she runs into the maniac and is also killed. 

In another variation of the story, the woman is discovered by police. While being escorted to safety, she is warned not to look behind her. When she does so, she sees the grisly aftermath of the man's murder.

Hook Drawing

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