 Illustration in ink of The Hook urban legend. Image by Flickr user littlericher73, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0 |
The HookThe Hook The Hook Urban legend For other uses, see Hook (disambiguation). The Hook, or the Hookman,[1] is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. This article needs additional citations for verification. (May 2017) Illustration depicting the Hookman approaching a 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, and gained significant attention when it was reprinted in the advice column Dear Abby in 1960.[2] It has since become a morality archetype… (Source: Wikipedia)
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