The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time requires the use of the Hookshot from Dampé to enter the Forest Temple. Since the Forest Temple is the first dungeon that adult Link goes to, he needs the Hookshot shortly after he's freed from the Sacred Realm. Dampé, however, has died while Link was gone, and he leaves players wondering why he quite literally took the Hookshot with him to his grave.
Ocarina of Time follows Link's journey to save Hyrule from the destruction that Ganondorf wants to bring through his rule. In order to stop Ganondorf, Link needs a collection of tools and the help of the sages who are awakened at the end of each temple he completes as an adult. Yet some of the people who help Link are regular citizens of Hyrule who are doing their best to survive.
Dampé mostly keeps to himself, partially because he sleeps during the day and presides over the Kakariko Village Graveyard at night, and this solitude remains a part of his personality when his character is reused in Majora's Mask. Even when Link is a child, Dampé has possession of the Hookshot, but it's not possible to obtain it until Link is an adult and Dampé has died. In order to get the Hookshot, Link has to race Dampé's ghost, and if the player completes the race in under a minute, they will also get a Heart Container.
By burying it, the Hookshot has better security than Hyrule Castle in Ocarina of Time. The answer as to why Dampé buried the Hookshot can be found in the Gravekeeper's Diary, but only in the version of the text that's displayed when the player reads it as child Link. It says, "When I dug a hole, I found a treasure that stretches--BOING! and shrinks--BOING! It's so fun, I'll never give it to anybody!" Therefore, Dampé buried the Hookshot simply because he didn't want anybody else to find and take it from him. Then, sometime while Link was in the Sacred Realm, Dampé decided that he would give his treasure to whoever entered his grave and beat him in a race.
Though it's not as dark of a game as Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time has subtly eerie elements such as the solitary gravekeeper, Dampé. And because it will have a darker tone, more characters from these two games than just the Happy Mask Salesman should appear in BOTW 2. Dampé could be an interesting character to include and elaborate on in newer Zelda titles that are aiming for a strange and surreal tone given the nature and solitude of his job in Ocarina of Time.
source https://screenrant.com/zelda-ocarina-time-dampe-bury-hookshot-where-why/
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