The VERY Messed Up Origins of THE HOOKMAN | Urban Legends Explained

There is a documentary called urban legends, and went to Texarkana as well other places, covering the true crimes, they also made cropsey

Yeah that's the one I heard XD

The version you told I've heard before and I've heard the other one as well. I just didn't know they were supposed to be the same one

I heard the same story that Spaz in that Bill Murray 1979 movie Meatballs heard. The guy had a hook on his foot! lol

“That’s not the little twig I’m scared of” is diabolical🤣

The inspiration for the Candyman movies?

It might be stupid, but I know the story of the Hook only from cartoon Total Drama Island

Mine was a couple of different stories that all have the same formula (as far as I remember)

- couple in car that runs out of gas/breaks down in the middle of the night

-Man goes to get help, telling girl not to open door until he gets back (or call the police if he doesn’t come back by morning)

-girl hears weird noises including a knock on the car door

-hears about hook man killer (probably from the radio)

-girl falls asleep

-girl goes outside to see dead boyfriend and a hook stuck in the door/his body



Basically the hubby would have been killed while she was asleep or far away and was dragged back to the car by the killer. All versions I heard did have the hook hand left at the crime scene

Thinking about this, I'd rather lose my left arm. I'm right handed. However I play banjo. The left hand does the details, the right does the driving. I would be heart broken if I lost left or right hand. I'd seek help. I'd hate to give up what both hands give me.

I've only seen the portrayal of The Hook as a ghost story, very loosely parodied by genius actor Jim Varney.

Betty Joe was fifteen? She looked like a 38 year old housewife with 3 kids lol.

I love the radio news broadcast that's awesome

Hahaha Buster! ❤

Did I catch that you mentioned Kane County, IL?

Well, an inmate of an asylum bing allowed of still wearing a hook for an hand would be very unlikely.😬///Actually I find The Town That Dreaded Sundown surprisingly accurate./// The version I've learned as a child was that of an couple running out of gas in the middle of the night in a deserted area. He's taking the petrol canister and wants to walk to the nearest town or gas station. The woman locks the door, listens to a radio program which is interrupted by the news of an escaped lunatic. She then hears repeated knocking on the car roof and is scared. After a while the police comes and tells her to get out of the car but not look back. However she does turn around and get's unconscious because of the shock she gets, when she see the lunatic with the head of the man on a stick which he used for hitting on the car roof.

You could have used that footage from the hook man episode of supernatural

I wonder if that influences the Friday the 13th tropes

The story the town dreaded son down is based on minus the hooks

Well all these sort of storys are cautionary tales. And if reality happens to come along and do something Vaguely similar. The legend is fueled. Even with regional variants. Pixie stick killer
Jeffrey Dahmer
John Wayne Gacy
Ed gien
Etc
Plus new conservative percolations like whites having an opioid crisis
And blacks having a crack crisis
And rainbow fentanyl being givin to kids for Halloween

I read it in The Headless Roommate. The story about being hung upside was a separate story.

The way you said "Texarkana" makes me want to take your knees.

The best retelling of this story is definitely Dan reading it in an episode of Sonic Unleashed on Game grumps.

As someone who has spent over 10 years living in Texarkana, did I expect the hook man to be tied back to the town that dreaded sundown? No. Did I expect Texarkana to be Pronounced right? No. Did I expect bowie county to be pronounced right? Yes. lol

Texarkana - Tex are can uh or Tex er can uh. Both ways I’ve seen the locals say it.

The name comes from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana. Texarkana is part of the ArkLaTex region which bands from Natchitoches, Louisiana to Idabel, Oklahoma, and from Marshall, Texas to Monroe, Louisiana.

I never actually heard it growing up, but I did see "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" when I was young (good film, and Charles Pierce is a legend for this and Boggy Creek). And I because interested in the murders, read a few books that I was maybe too young for when I was eleven, and thus grew up knowing the possible origins of the story instead of the actual urban legend.

Well, no. I'm 70, so when Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark came out in 1981, I was already a working adult. I heard the story the traditional way -- from my classmates when I was in school. It was Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James that so frightened me I waited until I was 18 to finish the book.

The original "Dear Abby" newspaper advice columnist was the identical twin sister of the even more famous columunist of "Ask Ann Landers". For more trivia, in the UK, such columnist are called "Agony Aunts", In one of his extremely popular Discworld fantasy novels, Terry Pratchett had Dotsie and Sadie, known as "the Agony Aunts" because of the agony they inflicted on those who failed to pay or were unkind to any member of the "Houses of Negotiable Affection".

"VFW" is an intialism for "Veterans of Foreign Wars".

Your first version is the one I heard, although the teller didn't bother to name the kids. BTW, do you know this poem? John and Ruth were driving happily/John hit a rock, Ruth hit a tree/and John went driving ruthlessly.

There was an episode in supernatural that talked about the hook Man to. 😂

Messed Up Origins of Man Door Hand Hook Car Door

I heard it first from my parents explaining a news article on urban legends, then I heard it told at camp, and from Scary Tales to Tell in the Dark. I also remember the Far Side parodying it with the Hook Man telling his grandkids who two teenagers in their car made off his his hook.

My favorite version is the “man door hand hook car door” copypasta

So much time wasting bulshit cut to the chase mate getting pretty Sika this sort of crap with you content creators dragging shit out

OMG CZSWORLD MENTIONED IM SO HAPPYYY

I heard this story before, but the hook was on his foot.

Supernatural does a ep.of that store

My first hearing of the story came from "Ernest Goes to Camp" in which Ernest tells the kids the "story" and after he tells it, the kids start poking holes in Ernest's telling of the story.

A piece that SHOULD have been added to this video, as it shows Ernest, AND how people mistold the story over time.

Man door hand hook car door

There are more couple killers. Son Of Sam, & The Zodiac Killer.

Did he say truth serum?

I'm not really buying that Zack answered I know what you did last summer before Candyman

It’s pretty much the same thing except that they didn’t make out and it was on a lake

I heard the version you told first, and yes it was fron Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I loved that series so much that I slept with the books under my pillow.

My dad had a friend who had a hook hand. He was cleaning his gun when it went off. It was really close to blowing his head off, so dude was really lucky. Anyways, he knew it creeped me out (I was a toddler), and he used to always tell me that he was going to pinch my nose with it if I didn't listen to my parents. Sweetest man ever, would have given his shirt off his back if you asked.

Omg when I was little I told my auntie I liked scary stories amd this is the first one I was ever told

When inwas told the story, the driver wss alone at night amd felt the gouges of the hook in the paint of their car door as they closed it after finally returning home. The lesson of my story was about not staying out late in stranger places alone.(I was too young to be examining what make out point was so my auntie tweaked it. Now I drive for a living and that altered lesson holds great significance)

I understood the hook man to be the ghost of a man of the cloth who killed teenagers for having pre-marital sex. He was hunted down and killed and they even took his hook, but his ghost came back to continue his work. The only way to stop him was to melt the actual hook. Trying to grab a ghostly hook from a psychotic spectre couldn't be a good idea

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