The Hook
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You know the story: A couple at makeout point hears some strange noises, drives home, discovers a bloody hook on their car door. But where did this story come from? And why do we keep telling it? This episode, we even dredge into true crime territory to reveal some of the potential origins of this infamous urban legend.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, gore, sexual content, assault, murder, ableism, misogyny, violence, hanging, blood, law enforcement, gun violence, and imprisonment.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast to Boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.6 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:36.9 | And I'm Julia. Amanda, I'm going to tell you a story. Always, a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. |
| 0:37.8 | Amanda, I'm going to tell you a story. Always, babe. It is going to be a story that you've heard before, |
| 0:43.2 | but it is the spookiest of all seasons right now. So I have to share this urban legend with you |
| 0:48.2 | because despite the fact that we've probably heard it a million times before, it might have |
| 0:53.0 | a little bit of a deeper history than |
| 0:55.3 | you would think. So come with me to a town in, let's say, middle America. Bren, if you don't |
| 1:01.6 | mind, set the scene for me. It's fall. A couple just went on a date, right? They went to go see a |
| 1:08.3 | movie at the local drive-in, let's say, and after deciding that they wanted to spend a little more time together, they decide that they are going to park their car at Inspiration Point or Makeout Point or Lovers Lane, whatever they call it in your hometown. |
| 1:24.8 | Behind the Dunkin' Donuts. Hey, if that works for you, that works for you. |
| 1:29.2 | So as they sit there on this night, the music they were listening to in order to set the mood |
| 1:34.9 | is interrupted. Breaking news. A murderer colloquially called the Hookman has escaped from the local |
| 1:42.4 | state prison. He is believed to be armed with a knife and extremely dangerous. |
| 1:47.1 | Everyone in the region is warned to keep watch and to report anything suspicious to the local authorities. |
| 1:53.1 | He is described as Caucasian, with dark hair, most notably his left hand is missing and in its place he wears a hook. |
| 2:02.8 | This has been a breaking news announcement. |
| 2:08.4 | Damn, hook in the left hand knife in the right. What can't this guy do? For the girl, |
| 2:14.5 | this announcement is, of course, a total mood killer. Combined that with the fact that they've parked in a particularly secluded and dark path in order to give |
| 2:18.2 | themselves a little bit of that privacy that they desire she begins to feel nervous exposed perhaps |
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