Once upon a time, in late 1600s England, it was the midst of the Golden Age of Piracy.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, Captain James Hook served as a privateer for England and became known for his honorable conduct to the Spanish galleons he captured, but was left without a job when the war ended, so he turned to piracy.
Until one day, his ship, the Jolly Roger, disappeared with Captain Hook and his entire crew with it.
Back in London, Captain Hook had a son, Harry, who grew up amazed at his father's exploits, and decided to head off to the Caribbean to become a famous pirate like him, preying upon any English or French ship that crossed his path.
Harry, a sadistic bully in his younger years, quickly developed a reputation for cruelty towards the crews he took prisoner, torturing them until they gave up all their valuables onboard.
And, after several close calls in attacks by pirate hunters, Harry turned his cruelty towards his own crew, punishing any hint of defiance brutally.
His crew eventually tired of him, so they staged a mutiny, voting him out of his position as captain and replacing him with his first mate. They put Harry into a sloop and set him off to sea.9o him, the son of Captain Hook!
He eventually found land, an uninhabited island, where he hunted for food for weeks until, one day, an English ship came to the island to collect water.
Harry saw this as his chance off the island, so he approached the crew, asking to join them, only to be recognized as Harry Hook, one of the most feared and hated pirates in the Caribbean, so they arrested him.
They took Hook to Jamaica, where he was put in prison until his trial for piracy, where he acted defiantly towards the court, showing no remorse for his career as a pirate. He was sentenced to hang till dead.
After Harry was hung, his body was placed in a gibbet to serve as a warning to those wishing to become pirates. Though, it quickly became a sort of tourist attraction for those that wanted to see what became of the son of Captain Hook.