The story of the hairy hands has become part of the paranormal lore of Dartmoor, with many versions, and inaccuracies, written over the years. My family has its own version of this story which I share here along here with new evidence from my research into the original historical sources.

In spring 2021 my father Steve Casely and I retraced the last part of the ill-fated route of Dr Helby from Cherrybrook bridge to Postbridge on the B3212 road. It was around the time of the 100th anniversary of the motorcycle accident that fatally wounded the Dr and injured his two young passengers. The sounds of the landscape and the Cherrybrook river flow hauntingly along with us, interspersed with my retelling of the incident and the newspaper reports of the time.

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