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

[@JonSolo]

SPOOPY SEASON HAS RETURNED, MERE MORTALS! 😈 We'll be exploring more scary stories throughout this month, so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out! And comment your suggestions for which twisted tales you want to see next!

[@shauncampbell969]

Dear Sir; Please don't think me rude, however, do you have glass left eye? I noticed that your left, eyelid, has limited mobility. Again, I'm not trying to be rule. I am just getting over an ulcerated tow. So, I'm not the one, ever to be rude to anyone, it was just a question. I enjoy your videos. All the best Shaun

[@ArtingFromScratch]

Aside from Peter pan, my first HOOK HAND I remember was John Prewitt from ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING

[@percival086]

No idea how you could incorporate this suggestion into a tale, myth, or legend, as you always seem to need one to form the crux of a topic at hand in order to keep the theming of your channel consistent, but I would love to hear your take on Dr. Karl Tänzler, perhaps one of the most notable necrophiliacs ever recorded, as his story is both a deranged and a pitiful one. I don't know how often necrophilia appears in mythology, however. Other than that, I hope you have a fine October, Jon.

[@TommyBenjamin217]

Can you make a messed up origins of the Babysitter story?

[@TommyBenjamin217]

Or Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton?

[@jackofallclaws6672]

Anyone else wanna see a Messed Up Origins episode focused around Candyman?

[@TitularHeroine]

Let's get the "Likes" up on this one, everybody!

[@jona7209]

Love Clive Barker!

[@starkravingralph]

CZs World already has a video about it if you want to check it out.

[@SkidrowTheThird]

ooooooo ho haaa-o~ I'm the Candyman.~ ooooooo ho haaa-o~ Coming from bounty land~ ehm! What were you saying? Yeah yeah, right! Let's get this to the top.

[@tinahs8269]

Yes...and the movie Urban Legend

[@crusixangel9513]

Spongebob: It's the hook slinging... The hook pinging... The hook singing Squidward: It's the hook slinging slasher!!!

[@gnarlysandman5076]

I thought it was the hash slinging slasher

[@asian.draper6324]

@@gnarlysandman5076it is

[@katywynter6419]

It is the hash slinger slasher

[@Scarecrow_LuuNa]

Hash slinging slasher*

[@milkyspacelf8031]

@@Scarecrow_LuuNa lol you did the thing kinda

[@michasalamon8315]

I gotta admit, I first thought that the video was about Captain Hook, but still watched the whole video.

[@FunnyFloppyDisc-vp7pz]

Me too

[@thechickennugget30]

Same, I wondered if maybe it inspired Captain Hook

[@AntoinettexKitten]

I like the idea of The Hook saving a young girl from a rapist. Not the whole murdering an innocent girl thing

[@princessazulaofthefirenati5870]

Same! Also! *_Professionals_* *_Have_* *_Standards_*

[@austinmanriquez4785]

I'm just surprised that the insane man with the hook is somehow more polite than the dude in the story. I mean, he tried to open the door rather than just smash the window with his hook.

[@akiragalbreath4532]

I’ve had an arm disability my whole life, and might need to be amputated when I’m older and get a prosthetic. Sir, this was hilarious! I love your edgy humor, keep going!

[@Skarlett.Rose.Ink.]

Best Arrested Development reference EVER. That made my whole damn day.

[@cathysheahan7036]

OMG, the "of course it was a foot..." and the hand thrown! 🤣🤣🤣 I am such a dork for cracking up so much at that bit!!!

[@DulihaFiore]

I grew up with the hanging version, the drip drip drip version, and the sliced stomach separately and combined. He was hanging with his stomach cut and the hook left in him. Creeps me out lol reminds me of the "dog" licking their hand from under the bed urban legend.

[@leoncaw326]

“Humans can lick too” was my #1 most traumatizing urban legend as a kid.

[@JStryker47]

@@leoncaw326 Unlikely to happen in real life though. If an intruder got into the house, the dog would likely smell him coming and the person would be awoken by the dog's barking.

[@GremlinGhoul]

god now i’m thinking about the licking

[@tysirrah]

The hook story i heard was that the couple kept hearing scraping sounds while driving and hit a huge "bump" in the road. The boyfriend decided to get her home before checking, only to see the hook in the back bumper, implying the mf was run over by thier car 😅

[@pompe221]

Oh, that's a version I've never heard before! Then again, for the longest time the only version I knew was the one from "Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark." It wasn't until middle school or high school that I heard the version where the boyfriend was killed and suspended above the car while the girlfriend lived.

[@HimeChan247]

I love CZ’s World!! I love his long explanation videos or the complete history of characters! It’s so fun knowing KZbinrs know each other in real life!

[@Jessidafennecfox]

I wanna see Jon and Zack collaborate

[@JonSolo]

So do we! 😂 He and I been talking about it for years but we both have crazy busy schedules. I'm hoping we can get it done in 2025 though

[@starkravingralph]

@@JonSolo that would be cool both of you are awesome!

[@tinahs8269]

I'd like to see a messed up origin video about my favorite story from the movie Urban Legend....the killer in the backseat. To this day, I check my backseat whenever I get into my car alone at night.

[@ginabell694]

YES

[@teresaellis7062]

Same!

[@persephoneblack888]

Same! I always check the back seat!

[@hannahlarge5738]

the way out heard it, (around 1998): the couple are parking at a makeout spot in the woods, just finishing up, and the guy goes to take a piss. they have both been drinking, the girl puts on the radio, hears the announcement, gets scared, she hears a scuffle in the woods outside and the guy shouts up that he just pissed on a racoon. they both laugh. the girl tells him to come back to the car and he says no, he needs to take a dump, just turn up the music and relax. she does as he says, waits, has another drink, and she hears another scuffle, she shudders and locks the doors and turns up the radio. she sees a racoon in the headlights of the car, it's not looking at her, but at something above the car; there's a scratching on the roof and she thinks "must be another racoon" she turns the radio up, and she waits and she hears more scratching and eventually she shouts out to the boy again, but gets no reply, she thinks about taking the car and leaving, but he has the keys so she can't. eventually, the drink takes effect and she falls asleep. suddenly there's a bang and a thump on the roof, far to loud to be a racoon. as she opens her eyes, she sees the blue lights, and suddenly she's surrounded by police cars. the cops are still jumping out of their cars, guns out and the girl starts to panic, they are all looking at the space above the car and the cops look terrified, one of the younger cops doubles over vomiting. an older cop makes eye contact with the girl and tells her to look at him, sends the rest to search the area. The old cop coaxes the girl to open the car door, telling her to look at him and not turn around. when my cousin told the story this part was the main event, as the girl walks like orpheus away from the car, with cop telling her not to look back and she slowly works out what's there. step, it must be awful, step, it must be her boyfriend, step, it must be horrible... and so on, i think my cousin stretched out this part of the story for about five mins. when the girl eventually turns she sees the boy "opened up and dangling like drew barrymore in scream" from the tree above the car, the killer is lying spread on his back across the roof of the car, where the cops have shot him, with the car keys dangling from his hook.

[@ashleydavis1937]

My favorite part of this story is the idea of a prison or asylum inmate allowed to keep their hook with them in the institution

[@leoncaw326]

Must have escaped from Arkham Asylum. Everyone’s just wearing their supervillain costumes in there.

[@Lutherstrode17492]

@@leoncaw326Wanna know some trivia about that place?

[@DaRozeman]

When I was a kid, we had a legend (Scary) about a pilot that went down in the Cascade Mountains and ended up having the propeller stuck through the middle of his chest. He somehow survived and went on a killing spree, killing any campers he came across in the mountains.

[@DaRozeman]

BTW, the story ended up naming the guy "Prop Man".

[@leoncaw326]

That is too funny. Easiest slasher killer to outrun I bet.

[@pompe221]

Why would he go after campers? Wouldn't he have a vendetta against planes (or other pilots)?

[@A66ys]

4:08 that's why right by the Elgin Mental Health Center had a "Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers" sign on Lake Street.

[@reynamoyer2379]

I would walk along there as a teenager and get offers all the time. Always made me wonder what if I was an escaped patient lol.

[@jordanhunter3375]

*why the the road right by

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

They have signs like that near prisons and hospitals all over the place

[@PokemonNurse2482]

Same with the prisons in Huntsville TX. Three prisons, mind you, that share a small town with a VERY large university. If that’s not the makings of a good horror flick I don’t know what is.

[@robintauber9994]

In "Adventures In Babysitting", the babysitter tells the kids the story in the car at the start of her shift with the kids.

[@tinahs8269]

Oh yeah, and then they run into a mechanic with a hook hand and all scream. I love her description of the victims as " like spaghetti-Os with meat"

[@starkravingralph]

@@robintauber9994 I think hers is more like there's someone in the house type of deal, and I think he scraped off the kids faces or something. I watched it like twice a day for a year when I was a kid, literally every day at least once and most times twice and I still watch it LOL

[@starkravingralph]

@@tinahs8269 handsome John Pruitt!!!

[@TheTaylorwailer]

That radio voice was really good. It sounded like someone else speaking the way you do.

[@PacifisticRage]

It would be impossibly difficult for someone to open a car door in the 70-80’s with a hook for a hand. You’d have to push the button in and pull.

[@morningmoon398]

I was born and raised in Texarkana, everyone and their mom was told this story, my grandmom told me about the Phantom, and she was 15 when this happened. My class even watched "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" in Jr. High. 😈

[@raewren]

Tex or Arkana side? I’ve only heard of the hook murd*rs based in Texarkana. I’ve not ever heard the legend outside of Arkansas. ( I mean organic telling of the story. ) Movies don’t count. Lol

[@morningmoon398]

@@raewren Most of my family live on Arkansas side, the lovers lane attacks happen on Texas side in what is now known as Spring Lake Park .

[@morningmoon398]

The second double murder I mean for Spring Lake Park.

[@sephypsycologist]

the first version I remember is the "boyfriend's dead and his blood drips" version and my mom heard it as a kid and it still freaks her out to this day. I can't even do the "man door hand hook car door" meme without her pushing my shoulder to stop.

[@santosflores4780]

I was in the middle of a video but as soon as I saw the notification I screamed “URBAN LEGENDS!” And found the video (because the notification already disappeared)

[@philsowers]

Same and I was in the middle of watching the news reports on the leaked possible actual UFO special program.

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

When I think of The Hook legend, I think of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark first because that's where I heard it first. Then "I Know What You Did Last Summer" AND "Urban Legend." I love these videos! Happy Spooky Month to you, Jon!

[@kelleyhardin1712]

Ooooo!!!! My Nana used to tell me a story- "Where's my big toe?!" Terrifying! I would love to know the origin.

[@heatherturner2366]

He did that one last year iirc

[@masterklaw4527]

"Man car door hook hand!"

[@christabelle__]

I murmured this to myself as I clicked on this video, lmao. Tumblr has ruined me.

[@emmetthowell899]

This is exactly what was going through my head the entire time, I’m glad I’m not the only one suffering from tumblr brain rot lol

[@distantstorm5]

This was literally the first version of the story I'd ever heard 😂

[@SpookiCooki]

Man door hand hook car door!

[@introvertedjo1238]

Okay, I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it was the only version that existed 😂

[@SpoonieCreates]

Am I the only one who took the scraping as the man with the hook hand taunting the teens and the fact his hook was stuck in the door indicated he was in the act of opening the door when the car sped off? I didn’t get any “struggle” from the story description but I guess I’m the odd one out 🤷

[@mcmptn]

It seems a little off to say the guy could make his escape but be unable to open a car door. I always thought the hook in the door meant he was in the process of opening it just as the accelerator was stomped, not that he was struggling. I mean, what kind of scary story would it be if he had trouble? Teenage Girl: (classic horror movie scream) There's a man trying to break into our car! Bad Guy: That's right! You kids are in for it now....or in about five minutes, whenever I can manage. In fact, would you mind stepping out of the car and helping me with this door?

[@photobombr]

Halloween Hawaiian shirt goes crazy 😂👌🏾

[@nschlaak]

"Sacrifice a thumbs up to the algorithm gods." 😮😅😂

[@janeyrevanescence12]

Actually, my first experience with The Hook came from my Criminology class my freshman year of college. My professor liked to bring up famous murder cases in class for us to debate every Friday so we can practice the techniques we had learned that week. One Friday, we were doing the Zodiac Killer (another serial killer who operated much the same way as the Texarkana Moonlight Murderer and was also never solved) and one of my classmates said "Hey, that's the story of The Hook!" And it took off from there.

[@jackofallclaws6672]

I really hope that this whole month of episodes are going to be focused on Urban Legends and Urban Legend-Inspired movies like Candyman. Side note; HOW IS JON NOT A VOICE ACTOR?

[@ZaneLehman]

The HOOKMAN I remember is from the TV series SUPERNATRAL

[@leoncaw326]

The version I grew up hearing was weird. When the couple finds the book hand it’s dripping blood, as if it was imbedded in the killer’s flesh and ripped out when they drove away. I bet this is at the top of the urban legend list for number of varieties.

[@leoncaw326]

*hook hand

[@CrazyCartoonCat12]

I first misread it as the Messed Up Origins of CAPTAIN Hook. LOL!

[@melissacooper8724]

I mostly remember that Peter Pan had cut off Hook's hand and fed it to the crocodile!

[@lovebubbles455]

SAAAAME! At first I was like, “daaaaang! Peter had a reason to be a little jerk!” And then I reread the title 😅😅

[@tyson8209]

Hey Jon could you do the messed up origins of Dracula and Renfield this month please???

[@AngelavengerL]

would totally love that

[@dianemccarty2996]

I was reminded of the real life case that partly inspired The Fugitive TV show and movie. A doctor is wrongly accused of murdering his wife when it was actually a "one armed man".

[@FearTheNobodies1]

I always thought the hook in the story was a weapon, not a hand replacement. Hay hooks and meat hooks are brutal weapons.

[@JohnRoss-v5j]

I wish Jon would cover the Odyssey 😔

[@jennyblanch8241]

He should also do the Iliad too.

[@oceananimates1214]

Almost spat out my coffee 🤣 8:52

[@HokeTheDog]

16:09 How are we supposed to have discussions about serious subjects if we arnt allow to say the words?

[@cg1367]

With silly sounding work arounds that don’t match the subject matter

[@auouraschannel5230]

We've had this story in the UK too. Along with one where a car breaks down, the man gets out to fix it. She hears a constant dripping. The police tell her to get out and don't turn around, but she does. The killers behind hims her holding her husbands severed head.

[@lashonnakennybrew4847]

I mean I truly do love folklore horror stories and videos much more so what more kind of creepy stuff you got to expose and explain Jon solo

[@graceroth3045]

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

[@lazarussolomon3541]

9:45 as a kid I always thought the man was in the process of opening the door as the car took off causing the hook to come off

[@sleepdisorder-exe5820]

That’s what I thought after he said it as well (I live under a rock. My first time hearing about these things)

[@Joseph-r9p]

I remember hearing that tale when I was a kid. You told it exactly like I heard it decades ago. 👍🏿

[@Wolfbane382]

Yes! Love these kinds of stories. I remember being in elemtnery school and singing Old Skinned Tom during music class on Halloween. I would love to see you cover Sounds this month as well.

[@TitularHeroine]

Oh yeah!! We called that song "Ghost of Tom". Good memories; I'm glad you mentioned that!

[@Wolfbane382]

When I was a kid, I had no idea it was based on an urban legend from my home state, Tennessee. Now, as an adult, I'm like, "I can't believe they actually let us sing that."

[@teresaellis7062]

🎶Would it be chilly with no skin on? 🎶 Though I remember it as "Ghost of John".

[@AcousticKitty]

My thing is... what asylum would allow a patient to keep their hook hand? Unless he stole it during the escape...

[@gigim.9742]

My lovely Arkansan spouse wants me to pause this video to let you know that Arkansans pronounce "Bowie" as "Boo-ie". Same pronounciation applies to bowie knives. David Bowie, however, is still Bow-ie", because a man has every right to mispronounce his own dang name.

[@Jean-yn6ef]

😂

[@PhazeDKidd]

18:15 wild 29 n 17 probably didn’t deserve to die but that gap is wild

[@Grave_of_the_Sea]

I think he did tbh, I only feel bad about her death, not his. He victimised her and she died before getting away from him :(

[@datboidrummer29]

The horror intro 10/10 you should more

[@Cerberus276-h1m]

I think I have an idea for next month. How about a video about one of the 3 deadliest monsters in Latin American folklore. One of them will be El Silbon because he's pretty scary but at the same time he's very fascinating and cool and also because the only Latin American folklore you did is La Llorona and it will connect Dia De Los Muertos on a certain level. Despite the holiday being on Friday and Saturday.

[@novahoth3406]

My intro to this urban legend was wildly different A friend in boy scouts told me it, much to my fear, but instead the story was about a family on a road trip when the car runs out of gas or something. The dad tells the wife and kids to sit tight and he'll be back with fuel. While he's gone the wife turns on the radio and hears the warning. After a while they hear soft tapping on the car roof, the wife turns up the radio, the banging continues and gets louder. This goes on for a bit before the radio is maxed out in volume. All of a sudden police cars pull up and someone on the bullhorn calls out to the car for the family to rush out and over to the police car and to not look back. They all comply and rush out, the youngest kid trips and falls, in the process he looks back to the the madman slamming the dad's head violently on the car roof. The detail of the hook was mentioned but didn't play the terrifying role in the original one in the book

[@TitularHeroine]

That shirt is dope AF, Jon, and should be worn year-round! And -- Merry Spoop!!

[@JaylaisAwesome]

I love your videos, keep it up!❤

[@safiremorningstar]

You asked if the fact that he only uses his hooked hand isn’t able list because it acts like he doesn’t have another hand to use and you’d be correct in fact, I remember hearing that exact story that you told and making that comment when it was told in summer camp in North Carolina, they have their own legends there too, won’t go into it, but I was never scared of any of those because I need a couple of things they didn’t and I realized immediately how stupid it was… remember walking away from the campfire and walking all the way back to camp, where you know we had our dorm and going back to bed… one of the dorm counselors asked me why I walked away, and I told her that they should hear the story from the point of view of somebody who has met people who are handicapped, and the one thing that always gets us is the fact that people think we can’t do anything like normal people, and then she looked at me and she said you don’t look handicap and I just shook my head and said that’s because mine’s invisible to the naked eye and then told her I’m dyslexic and the reason I can read her right is because when they made a comment like most people who make comments unthinkingly I was gonna show the person who made the comment how long they were. And I told her just I don’t wanna talk about it anymore. Let’s just leave it alone and she did.

[@estephanina]

7:49 ❤😊would be the best collab!!! Cz's world is so thorough, as you are as well!

[@jrr2480]

Some parts of the story reminds me of the Friday The 13th movie franchise, with The Voorhees killing teen lovers.

[@ppowerrz]

spoopy season is the best i love being scared. when i watched the monkey’s paw video your storytelling genuinely had me sweating!

[@TheHylianDragonGirl]

I coulda sworn I heard a version of this but the hook, which was bloody, was stuck in the front door of the girl’s house. I can’t remember if the door was cracked or not, just that the bloody hook was stuck in the lock of the door.

[@nirellediamond]

Daaang, I actually had a CZ's video up on another tab for when i finished this video. Love the call out haha

[@Ryanmanification]

You know what’s weird? The hookman is the main antagonist in the movie I know what you did last summer, which is based on a book, but the hook is not me tioned in the book

[@freddiemartin699]

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

[@Hyperguyver2]

Every kid who grew up in illinois knows this story and its origins. This was also one of my favorite episodes of Supernatural Season 1.

[@J.indieCut]

What about a messed up origin of "the Texas chainsaw massacre". ?

[@philsowers]

Yay, spoopy season. I'd love to see the origins of the Virginia Bunnyman. I believe it had some of an influence on Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. The tals is a train crashed passing over a bridge in Clifton, VA transferring patients between mental institutions in the DC area and either they all died, or one of them escaped and has been terrorizing and killing local residents, the haunting image of a noose hangs from underneath the overpass as an ominous warning on Halloween.

[@zachhaywood1564]

You should really do a Messed Up Origins of When A Stranger Calls, because that's also based on a true story. It happened in my hometown and is one of the most terrible things you will hear.

[@nicholaseke6533]

18:19 29 yo and 17 yo girlfriend. Yeesh

[@JonSolo]

Yeahhh I didn't comment on that out of respect for the victims but that's some Cody Ko shit right there

[@Die4Dusa]

Man 😭😭😭

[@DexMythology]

That was the norm for 6000 give or take.

[@marcelomoreno7]

Back in the days men would be 10 years older than there girlfriend and people say this generation is cooked.

[@Kitty-hl1ox]

I love this video even more because I grew up with the story of The town that dreaded sundown and I love it when stories of my area get covered. I've heard many variations of the hook story but I think scary stories to tell in the dark was the first version I heard.

[@borjaslamic]

This story will always end with "Man door hand hook car door!" for me.

[@ModestaFeb14]

You’ve got a great channel! In fact you have great a story-telling ability. You should stretch your content into more stories like this. Had me captivated. 😮

[@marceloasensiofilho3833]

One piece has Crocodile who wields a hook but the dude has both hands. It is a popular pirate story without a peg leg or hook hand pirate

[@kendallthompson2027]

My introduction to it was the Supernnatural episode about it. One of the better episodes if you ask me.

[@poisonivystar4]

I've heard them all, but the way you present them is wonderful! (If you have time, would you mind covering the Greenbriar Ghost? If not, that's okay; it's really more of a local thing anyway.)

[@--Tia--]

Why couldn't he open the door with his "good" hand? Maybe the doors were locked, so he was picking the lock with the hook.

[@JonSolo]

great explanation!

[@rolandswift4311]

My first guess was that he had an actual weapon in his good hand, so he was using the hook(which would be far less effective/harder to use as a lethal weapon than a knife, axe, gun, etc.) to open the door so he'd have the weapon ready. His "inability" to open the door could be due to the hook being poorly fitting/affixed to his arm, as I find it hard to believe an insane asylum would allow a violent inmate to have something like a hook that he could potentially hurt himself or others with. We could also speculate that it was due to the fact that it was someplace dark and that hooks don't have nerve endings, so he may have just been having trouble feeling for the door handle. Third possibility is that the whole reason he lost his hand to begin with is that he had an accident due to already being uncoordinated, clumsy, and/or lacking his mental faculties.

[@AngelicMccormick]

​@@JonSoloI'm from Indiana, according to the legend the hookman was a serial killer who murdered his victims with a hook, when he died he was buried in a cemetery, the locals were mad so they buried him in an unmarked grave, his spirit is still looking for victims, this took place at lovers lane in Peru Indiana

[@schizoidboy]

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.

[@Geeky_Riley]

Funny thing, the version I'm familiar with the boyfriend leaves the car to reassure his girlfriend there's no one there. I believe she gets spooked and drives away because I remember the ending better than the middle. Once she feels safe, she opens the door to find the hook dug into the car door. I don't mean stuck to the handle. I mean in the car door like he tried to stop her from driving off.

[@tinahs8269]

Im surprised you didnt mention the Son of Sam murders ...he also targeted couples in secluded roadways.

[@HimeChan247]

Jon!! Every time I watch a video I see you wave your arms around while you’re talking and I would love a short video of all your tattoos! I need a tattoo tour 😂

[@Lethal_Venom]

Glad to see a topic other than Disney stuff

[@mightymitch2722]

Jon you should read the book The Headless Roomate and Other Stories. It's kind of like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and retells a bunch of urban legends. It's great.

[@amb163]

I read the story for the first time at some point in the mid-80s, in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I credit that book series for my love of urban legends.

[@misake]

I heard the version on scary stories to tell in the dark. I don't think I read it, though, I'm sure I have that book. Not sure... maybe the Supernatural TV series. 🤷‍♀️

[@Alex-RavensPeak]

Anyone remember that story about the girl with a green ribbon around her neck?

[@Jessidafennecfox]

Dark core memory

[@TitularHeroine]

Oh yes. Haunted me for decades.

[@phdmr]

The only hook story I saw was the one presented at a episode of Supernatural

[@ginabell694]

That's the one I was thinking of

[@4x4flyingtoken]

I love when lore channels I watch name drop each other. Sends a tingle through my heart.

[@Listening_Books12345]

YOOOO, ZACH MORRIS SHOUT OUT!!! I love that guy, I actually found and subbed to his channel before I found yours, I love knowing you guys know each other!

[@raquellofstedt9713]

I've heard the drip, drip, the foot scratching, and first of all, the hook in the door. I always thought the one about the scratching or tapping on the roof was mixing up this with the Mothman, though.

[@Fantasygirl2001]

You may have heard that story when you were young, but my parents never told those stories to me, and my sister urban legends were never told to us it was considered against our faith to do so. Also I never read any of those books you mentioned that had those stories in them. Primarily because neither my sister nor I went to public school but were both homeschooled. And we only went to the public library if we had to get research books for report days we did with our homeschool group. The only times we got recreational books from the library were if we had done exemplary on our reports or other school work.

[@jennyblanch8241]

What a restrictive religion

[@Fantasygirl2001]

@jennyblanch8241 Christianity is not that restrictive. Some of the denominations are. However, none in our family belonged to those churches we attended a non-denominational church, so the do and don't 's were more lax. However, our mother was against things that left open doors. Also, neither my sister nor I were all that interested in that sort of things you could say we weren't all that curious about stuff that some of our friends outside our homeschool group were into Urban legends didn't interest us all that well though that doesn't mean we were entirely un exposed to scary stories but for me the scariest story I had ever heard or read as a child was called the green ribbon from a collection separate from the more advanced books John solo had mentioned the book was called In a dark ,Dark room and other scary stories. It was the only story in that collection mom allowed as it wasn't nightmare inducing or anything of that sort my sister on the other hand, was much our mother's disapproval exposed to horror stories and movies like It or things of that sort mostly because some of her friends would rent movies that weren't really even approved of by their mother which for which she was sorry for afterwards. But other than that we mostly preferred to avoid those open doors. We stuck to what most children called normal when I came to movies or cartoons.

[@Elora445]

@@Fantasygirl2001 Still very restrictive. I was exposed to all sort of things as a child. Most traumatizing was actually a normal scary story that was appropriate for a child my age. You never know what will traumatize a child. Every child is different. I also read a LOT of Harlequin books as a child. Was that appropriate? But at least I could read anything I wanted to. If I got upset, my mother just held me and explained why I felt that way. Made me more able to handle things like that.

[@Fantasygirl2001]

@Elora445 I am explaining it wrong. Christianity doesn't have anything specific about scary movies or horror stories. In our family, it was a matter of preference and, more specifically, a matter of how our parents were raised, our mother was raised in a family where children were not exposed to scary stories or scary movies until the child was at least 11 when most children were old enough to know that what was in those stories and movies were make believe or fiction and we also my sister and I weren't really drawn to those kinds of things . We didn't always succeed in avoiding them, as I said earlier, my sister ended up being exposed to the horror movie It. At six years old, which traumatized her and gave her a deep-seated fear of clowns. Mom did her best to explain that it was just a movie, but most children at six only reason in the concrete, meaning they believe everything they see or hear in scary stories or scary movies are real. I was a little luckier in that regard. The scariest movies I saw as a child between the ages of six and nine were cartoons or things that were labeled as fantasy, so I knew based on the genre that the story was make-believe the movies were the Neverending story and the last unicorn I saw the Neverending story at six that experience happened three years before my sister had her experience with the movie IT. And the last unicorn was seen by me when. I was nine. Both those movies sparked fear in me as well but not a deep because of the genre, but after after the last unicorn, I was afraid the spectral antagonist, "the Red bull," was in my closet. Because again, I was still at the age when I really couldn't tell that creatures like that were just pixilated images. But that fear only lasted a few days . But even now, those experiences have made both my sister and myself careful about what we watch . Of course, there were two other movies we went to see when we were children, but those I don't count as scary movies because they were comedies. Namely, the Ghostbusters movies 1&2. But as I said, our parents and we ourselves don't count those as scary as they are comedies, and my sister and I were both much much younger when we first saw those movies. I was I was just about six, and my sister had just turned 3. We were at a drive-in movie. It was a long time ago. Namely, back in the 1990s,

[@chbreon9180]

I can’t remember if you did a messed up orgin of Candy Man.

[@donnagoldsmith7078]

I love urban legends so this was a particularly great episode for me. Please do a video on the 'Humans can lick too' legend we all know and love, or even better 'Bet you're glad you didn't turn on the light.'

[@shadowwood549]

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

[@CrimzonLizard]

12:23 the kerning between the "R" and the "I" is slightly funky so I read it as "OR IGINS"

[@paolacordova5335]

Happy Spooky Season.💀🎃👻

[@cristlejohnson4900]

No crazy inmate would have their hook with them. It's completely unstable? No.

[@persephoneblack888]

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.

[@Osricb83]

The show Supernatural did a version of the Hookman story.

[@Halloweenish]

Say it with me now: ✋Yo Ho, Yo Ho, near the hooks we’ll never go…

[@Uncleed251]

The town that dreaded sundown didn't know it was actually based on the said string of murders heard hear until I was in my twenties and never would have thought it might be the inspiration for the hook other murders may have also contributed but there were so many similar attacks back then .

[@leperface]

My first time hearing a version of "The Hook", I was in 3rd grade having a sleep over at a friends house. His Dad told us the story, and pulled out a coat hanger at the end and screamed. I got so scared I started crying lol.

[@AngelavengerL]

Awesome video! Super interesting seeing how these urban legends come about. The editing was hilarious too.

[@VioletFeatherWind]

If you ever watched Total Drama, you can hear the character, Duncan telling a story similar to the hook story around the campfire