The Hook

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This is about an urban legend. For the device used on a performance stage, see The Hook (theater)

The Hook is a classic example of an urban legend.

[edit] Basic Premise

A young couple is parked at the local lover's lane. The place was dark and desolate so the boy parks the car, turns the lights off, and puts on the radio. There is some light music on the radio, and the two lovers begin making out. Suddenly, the music stops as an announcer cuts in. A psychopathic serial killer had just escaped from the state asylum, which just happened to be nearby. The one distinguishing and disturbing feature was a hook that the murderer had in place of one of his hands.

The girl becomes rather distraught and asks to go home. The boy, who was not quite ready to go home, locks the doors and told her that they would be fine. She became more and more incessant and continued pushing him away. He eventually gives in to her demand and starts the car. They tear out of the parking lot and speed home. He does not say a single word the entire way home. When he pulls up to her house, she gets out of the car. As she went to close the door, she begins screaming uncontrollably. The boy jumps out of the car and runs around to the other side to see what was causing the commotion. There, hanging on the door handle was a bloody hook. In other legends, the boyfriend agrees to take the girl home, only to find that the car won't start because it is broken or it is out of gas. He exits the car, and the panicked girlfriend waits for him. As time goes on, she begins to hear a scratching sound, like fingernails on the roof of the car. Eventually she succombs to curiosity and gets out of the car to see what is making the noise, only to find her boyfriend suspended upside down from a tree, covered in blood. The scratching sound is coming from his fingernails dragging along the roof of the car as the wind blows his body back and forth.