Devon's Mysterious Sites -------------Hauntings------------ Berry Pomeroy Castle Lew House Kitty's Steps Exeter Cathedral Lapford Uplyme The Hairy Hands ---------------Stone Circles----------- Spinsters Rock ---------------Burial Chambers----------- ---------------Legends----------- Wistmans Wood ---------------UFO's----------- Brixham Sighting ---------------Wells----------- ---------------Folklore----------- The Devils Stone Grimspound ---------------Lost Lands----------- ---------------Early Christianity--- Home Site Map Devon Map England Map Scotland Map Wales Map Uplyme A Phantom coach driven by four horses has been seen on what was the old coaching road. The Black Dog Inn has a curious story as to how it acquired its name. A local man who lived in a farm house that once formed part of a mansion destroyed in the civil war, found his house haunted by a black dog. The dog manifested by the hearth almost every night. One night he came home drunk grabbed a poker and chased the dog into the attic, the dog disappeared through the roof, which he smashed through with the poker. To his amazement a hoard of golden coins from the civil war period spilled from the roof. He used these to buy and convert a house nearby into a pub which he called the Black Dog. The dog still haunts the lane by the pub and was seen in the 1950's. Wistmans Wood Dartmoor This strange and twisted woodland is thought to be one of the few remnants of ancient woodland dating from prehistoric times. The woodland broods with the feeling of enchantment and visiting the wood is like a walk in the otherworld. In tradition the wood is haunted by a pack of Yeth hounds and it is from here that they start their wild hunt across the moorland. They follow their master, who may be the Devil, Odin, or any number of spectral huntsmen on the search for souls across the moorlands. The dogs are described as jet-black in colour snorting fire from their nostrils. Map ref: SX 612 774 Directions: Reached by a footpath leading from Two Bridges.