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In 1921, a series of accidents on a small rural road, carving through the heart of the

boggy marshes and fields of Dartmoor in Southeast England, led to a brief explosion in excitement concerning the ghostly image of a pair

of disembodied hands, forcing drivers off the road and into potentially fatal accidents.

Following a little dash of press magic, the story took hold and grew for over a hundred years,

until today where it's become accepted as a staple in British urban legend. But how did it happen? How did a relatively innocuous

story take such a hold of the public imagination for so long, preserving, evolving, and growing with each passing generation.

This is the story of the hairy hands of Dartmoor, a story that blurs the lines between

fact and fiction and spawned into existence a fully fledged cryptic legend from nowhere.

This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

Hello everybody welcome to season 4 episode 15 Dark Histories. I'm Ben as always I hope you're all doing very well.

Before we start this episode I want to give a just a brief overview of

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