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The Hairy Hands

Postbridge, Dartmoor

Invisible hairy hands grab the wheel on a lonely Dartmoor road.

In the 1920s a stretch of road near Postbridge gained a strange name for accidents. Drivers and cyclists said a pair of large, hairy hands appeared and wrenched the wheel or handlebars from their grip.

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When
1920s
Where
50.5880, -3.8850
Group
Unexplained

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The B3212 between Postbridge and Two Bridges. Drive carefully.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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