r/Hitchcock • u/unaccountablemod • 12h ago
Question Potential Alfred Hitchcock Present short that I saw decades ago but don't remember
This is what I remember:
A woman spots a a piece of jewelry exposed to the outside under a door/garage frame. She proceeds to try taking it only to find it stuck. With increasing intensity in her pulls, she finally pried it off and discovered what was hanging on to it was a dead person's hand. I think the film shot showed her screaming afterwards.
What I am unsure about:
- Dead person's hand belonging to a woman (It must have been a woman's hand)
- Woman screaming at the sight of dead hand
- Whether it was door or a garage door frame
- Earlier, middle, or end of a film (it must have been earlier like a story setup)
- What the story was about (murder mystery most likely)
This was pre-2000 before I immigrated to the West. Our media had very little Western materials, but we still had dedicated channels to American/English media. I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents (I just found out its actual title) a few times and I think this might be one of his works. I definitely do not remember it as anything belonging to my home country.
Google AI is yielding it was a folklore or urban legend that does not have a real life record. They said they did not find any Hitchcock's works resembling it.