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1Hookman Mythology Empty Hookman Mythology Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:07 pm

Rob

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The Hook is a classic example of an urban legend. The basic premise involves a young couple parked at a dark lovers' lane. The radio plays music as the couple make out. The music is interrupted by an announcer who reports that a serial killer has just escaped an institution which is nearby. The killer has a hook in place of one of his hands. For varying reasons they decide to leave quickly. The legend ends with the discovery of the killers hook attached to the outside handle of one of the doors. Many variations include the sound of scraping on the car door. Some legends have the same beginning, but end up with them seeing him first, warning some others, then having him come to their car. They try to escape, but end up with him holding on to the top of the car. It ends with both dying.

In an alternative version of the story, the couple while driving through an unknown part of the country decide to stop the car in the middle of the woods at night because the man has to relieve himself. While waiting for him to return, the wife/girlfriend turns on the radio and hears about the escaped mental patient. She notices that her husband/boyfriend has not returned yet and is disturbed many times by a loud thumping on the roof of the car. She eventually exits her car and sees the crazy man on the roof of the car holding her husband's decapitated head in his hand and hitting the roof with it. Other variations tell of her seeing her husband/boyfriend's butchered body suspended upside down from a tree above the car with his fingers dangling just above the roof.

A happier ending sees the couple driving off when it sounds like the hookman is approaching the car. Along the way, they assure themselves it was just their imagination. However, upon getting home and exiting the car, they find the hook stuck in the door.

It is believed by some that the site of Great Hill Cemetery is to be haunted. Some have claimed that photographs taken there show ectoplasmic mist and other strange phenomenon associated with psychic photography[citation needed]. An urban legend associated with the cemetery claims that it is haunted by a spirit known as the Hookman. There are three different versions of the Hookman legend. They are as follows:

The cemetery caretaker (who had a hook in place of a hand) murdered a young boy when he stayed in the cemetery after dark. The boy was found impaled and dangling from a large hook attached to a tree the next day.

A man with the last name "Hookman" was wrongfully accused of a crime and hanged from a tree at the site.

A young couple parked by the cemetery one night. When the girl thought she heard something outside, the boyfriend got out of the car to investigate. When he didn't come back, the girlfriend got out of the car only to find her boyfriend's dead body hanging from a hook in the trees.

All three versions of the story have been circulating in the area since the 1950s. There is also a local legend about a house that once stood near the cemetery. Supposedly there was a family who lived in the house, and the young son murdered the whole family and then himself.

Records at the Derby Historical Society show that a small caretaker's house once existed on the grounds of the cemetery; this may have inspired some of the legends.

The third version of the story is probably just another version of the classic Hookman legend that originated in Maine in the 1920s. Regardless of whether the legends are true or not, Connecticut demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren believe that the cemetery is filled with demonic evil.

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