has anybody here heard of the hairy hands of pstbridge,dartmoor? they appear when you try to cross the bridge and steer your car/bike off the edge .... spooky dnt u think?

Never heard of them. What are they supposed to look like? Just a pair of hands floating in the air? If I were to see something like that I'd probably laugh and think it was some kind of joke (like a pair of monkey gloves on a string or something)

Never heard of this and no its not even remotely spooky.........anyone can fake it with a pair of fake hairy hands and string.........

No.. I can't say I have heard of them.

The Hairy Hands
The B3212 near Two Bridges has been the scene for one of the most frightening hauntings in Dartmoor, that of the phantom hairy hands, which try to push people of the road.

There was a death on this road in June 1921, a medical officer who worked in Dartmoor Prison was riding his motorcycle along the B3212 with his children in the side car. As he was coming up to the bridge that passes over the East Dart he shouted to his children to jump clear from the motorcycle. They managed to get clear as the bike went out of control and crashed killing the medical officer.

This may or may not be related to the next incident that was reported when a man crashed in the same spot, he claimed that a rough hairy pair of hands had closed around his and drove him off the road.
There have been several more stories over the years, but the one that is most often quoted is of the young married couple who were sleeping in a caravan nearby in 1924. During the night the young woman awoke with the feeling of terror and danger only to see a pair of hairy hands clawing their way up a partly open window. She made a holy sign and prayed and the hands slipped out of view.

It seems that the area had been avoided even before cars and motorbikes were common on the road, and there is a long tradition of supernatural creatures haunting the moorland.
Directions: The B3212 runs from Yelverton Northeast across Dartmoor to Sloncombe.

idle hand ...

Hairy hands? Doesn't actually sound very intimidating.

Hairy hands is one thing but if they got hairy palms ya better run who knows what is caked in that hair

Oh, I have an idea..............

But seriosly, if random hairy hands appeared I don't think I would be too scared. Like, c'mon, all the horrors that the human imagination can create, hairy hands?

Used to be horrified of those hairy hands, but its just a very scary urban legend, based on a real event to give it some sort of boost up above other urban myths that follow largely the same lines.

My uncle won't drive on Dartmoor at night for this very reason - it may sound silly, but those moors are spooky at night.

I'm from Torquay born and bred so live only 15 or so miles from Dartmoor.

I remember the story well. My mum and dad told me all the ghost stories growing up and if out on the moors when it was dark me and my sister would always ask to drive over the bridge with the hairy hands!

Jay's grave was another popular haunt too along with Berry Pomeroy castle just outside Paignton on the way to Totnes.

All are nationally famous, all have been featured on television, indeed Berry Pomeroy castle is said to be the most haunted building in England.

I can only speak from personal experience though and say that after having spent a dozen nights or so at the castle in my late teens and having visited the hairy hands bridge and Jays grave many many times after midnight that sadly I have seen and witnessed absolutely nothing.

Should this be in "Ghost, Spirits and Haunting"? Anyway if you want to cross the street, you might want to arm yourself with some wax and peelers. They can inflict quite a major damage to the "Hairy Hands".