Jacob Karns
- Appeared: in 1.07 Hookman
- Dispatched: after his corpse is salted and burn and the silver of his hook is melted.
- see also Hook Man Legend, Ghost
In 1862 a preacher named Jacob Karns was angry over the red light district in town on the Nine Mile Road and killed 13 prostitutes. It was written that “some of the deceased were found in their bed, sheets soaked with blood. Others suspended upside down from the limbs of trees as a warning against sins of the flesh.” He was arrested and then executed.
It appears Jacob Karns' spirit fed off repressed emotions. In 1932 a clergyman was arrested for murder and in 1967 a seminarian killed some hippies. In the current case, Lori Sorenson's feelings about her boyfriend, room-mate, and adulterous father incited Karns to attack them.
Dean found Karns' corpse at the Old North Cemetery in an unmarked grave he identified because it has a cross on it. This failed to stop Karns, and the boys realized the spirit still manifested because the silver that made up Jacob's hook was remoulded into items in the church. Jacob was dispatched when all of these, the last being a silver chain Lori wears, was melted.
