Haunted Dartmoor

The stories gathered in this volume are not inventions laid upon the landscape, but responses drawn out of it over centuries. They arose where people worked, travelled, suffered, watched the weather, buried their dead, and learned – sometimes too late – how quickly the moor can turn against the unwary. In such a place, storytelling was never merely entertainment. It was instruction, warning, and memory.

Dartmoor folklore differs markedly from the ghost traditions of towns and houses. Here, spirits are rarely confined to rooms or corridors. They move along tracks, stand on ridges, wait beside water, or appear at the edge of vision when conditions shift. Many are not malicious. Some are protective. Others exist simply because something unfinished still tugs at the land.