Warning: this one's really creepy!!
"Of all the spirits, entities and creatures that are said to inhabit the county of Devon, none are so openly hostile towards people as the Hairy Hands.
Picture this; you're driving the narrow moors lane near Postbridge and Princetown, its dark, cold and a typical moors night.
All of a sudden the steering wheel or handlebars are grabbed by a gruesome pair of hairy, calloused hands that are inhumanly strong and do their utmost to fight you off the road.
That's a story that's been repeated many times since its first suggested incident in June 1921 when a worker at Dartmoor Prison was killed as his motorcycle became uncontrollable and crashed.
The tale was related by his children who were riding in the sidecar, all they knew was their father shouting at them to get off the bike and apparently wrestling with the controls.
They jumped clear, he didn't.
This was repeated again sometime later, another motorcyclist, this time with a pillion passenger, seemingly driven off the road approaching the same spot.
This time the passenger saw things more clearly and insisted he saw a large hairy hand grasp the handlebars and forcibly upset the bike.
It seems though that its not just motorists that are at risk from the devil's digits, any campers in the area have need to fear too."
To read more about hairy hands; go to: BBC Devon http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/legends/hairy_hands.shtml
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