NEW RICHMOND: Does The Hook Man Still Prowl Pond Run Road?

NEW RICHMOND:

DOES THE HOOK MAN STILL PROWL POND RUN ROAD?

The doctor and his wife lived on a hill, which overlooked Pond Run Road. They had a son who was mentally disturbed. Rather than letting him leave the house and injure himself or someone else, the parents shackled him inside the home.

One dark rainy night, the house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The bodies of the adults were found. All that could be found of the young man in his late 20s was a hand, which had been severed by a sharp object, allowing him to escape the burning house.

Within a few years teenagers began hearing noises at night in the hills along Pond Run Road. They would find empty packages of food and huts and hideaways in hills. Could this be attributed to the young man who escaped the fire?

Soon the noises came closer to the narrow, tree-lined street. Then the deaths began on the road, which was being used as a lover's lane because of its seclusion.

A young couple heard a scratching noise outside their car. The young man told his date to stay in the car and not get out till he got back. The young woman fell asleep and didn't wake until she heard pounding on the car door. A policeman asked her to step out of the car, follow him and not look back. After several steps, she would look back and scream after seeing her date lying across the roof of the car with blood oozing from many holes poked in his body.

Another young couple heard the scratching sound outside their car, but knowing of the previous murders they drove the car away immediately. When the young man you get out to open the lady's door when they got to her house, he almost fainted when he saw a hook stuck in the handle of the door.

By the 1970s all the pull over spots on that road had been eliminated. Later that decade, people began to build homes along the hills on the road. But they all had installed powerful spotlights searching every inch of their property.

In the fall of 1991, Paul Dunaway was driving a carload of friends along Pond Run Road telling tales of the Hook Man on the lonely, dark road. The temperature suddenly dropped 30 degrees in seconds and the radio went nuts. Then a Greyhound bus came out of no where with no headlights on and it tried to rear end us. When it finally went around us, none of us saw a driver! All of the friends verified Dunaway's story, but didn't want their names mentioned.

In the fall of 1996 a similar story took place. Steve West was on Pond Run Road with his friends in a car, telling the story of the Hook Man. A van followed them all the way to state route 132 with no lights on and stayed on our tail all the way. When an oncoming car would pass, the lights would hit the van and we wouldn't see anyone driving it!

Why is this happening to people who are traveling on Pond Run Road and telling the legend of the Hook Man? To find out if the stories are true, just drive down Pond Run Road on a dark, lonely, or rainy night and look into the woods for the glimmer of metal in the lights of your automobile. Do you see an ice pick or is it a hook?


	NEW RICHMOND: DOES THE HOOK MAN STILL PROWL POND RUN ROAD? The doctor and his wife lived on a hill, which overlooked Pond Run Road. They had a son who was mentally disturbed. Rather than letting him leave the house and injure himself or someone else, the parents shackled him inside the home. One dark rainy night, the house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. The bodies of the adults were found. All that could be found of the young man in his late 20s was a hand, which had been severed by a sharp object, allowing him to escape the burning house. Within a few years teenagers began hearing noises at night in the hills along Pond Run Road. They would find empty packages of food and huts and hideaways in hills. Could this be attributed to the young man who escaped the fire? Soon the noises came closer to the narrow, tree-lined street. Then the deaths began on the road, which was being used as a lover's lane because of its seclusion. A young couple heard a scratching noise outside their car. The young man told his date to stay in the car and not get out till he got back. The young woman fell asleep and didn't wake until she heard pounding on the car door. A policeman asked her to step out of the car, follow him and not look back. After several steps, she would look back and scream after seeing her date lying across the roof of the car with blood oozing from many holes poked in his body. Another young couple heard the scratching sound outside their car, but knowing of the previous murders they drove the car away immediately. When the young man you get out to open the lady's door when they got to her house, he almost fainted when he saw a hook stuck in the handle of the door. By the 1970s all the pull over spots on that road had been eliminated. Later that decade, people began to build homes along the hills on the road. But they all had installed powerful spotlights searching every inch of their property. In the fall of 1991, Paul Dunaway was driving a carload of friends along Pond Run Road telling tales of the Hook Man on the lonely, dark road. The temperature suddenly dropped 30 degrees in seconds and the radio went nuts. Then a Greyhound bus came out of no where with no headlights on and it tried to rear end us. When it finally went around us, none of us saw a driver! All of the friends verified Dunaway's story, but didn't want their names mentioned. In the fall of 1996 a similar story took place. Steve West was on Pond Run Road with his friends in a car, telling the story of the Hook Man. A van followed them all the way to state route 132 with no lights on and stayed on our tail all the way. When an oncoming car would pass, the lights would hit the van and we wouldn't see anyone driving it! Why is this happening to people who are traveling on Pond Run Road and telling the legend of the Hook Man? To find out if the stories are true, just drive down Pond Run Road on a dark, lonely, or rainy night and look into the woods for the glimmer of metal in the lights of your automobile. Do you see an ice pick or is it a hook?