Still Waters Posted July 18, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Since the early 1900s, something sinister has haunted the back roads of Dartmoor in Devon, England. Around 1910, an unknown force began to torment the locals on what is now B3212 Road (which can be found between the villages of Postbridge and Two Bridges). By coincidence (or perhaps not), Dartmoor is also the setting of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1902 crime thriller, The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes. http://demonhuntersc...f-dartmoor.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyInnerShadow Posted July 25, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I live in Bristol, about a couple of hours from there, and I like to go down that way now and then, and I have heard people talk of this and similar stories. Next time I visit Dartmoor, I shall have to do a little more searching around... You hear all kinds of stories like this all over the South West though, especially in Somerset and Devon. I wonder if that was Conan Doyle's inspiration for the Baskerville Hound, and whether these local tales in turn fed off the fame of his novel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eilidh Posted July 25, 2013 #3 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Scary! I think I'll be avoiding that road... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subsonicjourno Posted July 26, 2013 #4 Share Posted July 26, 2013 My Gf's step-dad apparently encountered this years ago whilst driving back to Cornwall. Scared the ****e out of him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent D. Scully Posted July 28, 2013 #5 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I remember my grandmother telling me this story when I was five or six. I think in her version, the hands had been severed from a man in spite, and buried separate from him so he couldn't have a proper Christian burial, or something along those lines. So the hands rose to take revenge. Her story ended with someone slamming the hands into a bible and thus stopping them. It scared the **** out of me as a child. I don't know why. I didn't sleep for weeks after though. I would lock my windows and weigh them down so the hands couldn't break in 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 29, 2013 #6 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Wow, that's a creepy story! Isn't Dartmoor the place, where that family bought a zoo? Remember that movie, We Bought a Zoo? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyInnerShadow Posted July 29, 2013 #7 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) Wow, that's a creepy story! Isn't Dartmoor the place, where that family bought a zoo? Remember that movie, We Bought a Zoo? You're absolutely right, the movie was based on the memoir of a person who worked at Dartmoor Zoological Park. http://en.wikipedia....Zoological_Park Edited July 29, 2013 by MyInnerShadow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now