The history of this phenomenon, frightening British drivers for over a hundred years, began in 1911 and continues to this day. The phenomenon encompasses one particular road, modern number B3212, which begins at two bridges near the town of Postbridge in the Dartmoor area. The phenomenon is called "Hairy Hands".
The phenomenon is that in these places, on different sections of the B3212 road, drivers sometimes suddenly see how the steering wheel of their car is covered by other people's large hairy hands and trying to throw the vehicle to the side of the road, which once led to tragic consequences.
The hands were described as ghostly or disembodied and the drivers themselves, therefore, could not interfere with them. Drivers later described these hands with horror in their voices. However, until 1921 this phenomenon was considered quite harmless and somewhat akin to superstition, until the first tragedy occurred in 1921.
In June 1921, Dr. Helby, who worked in the medical office of the Dartmoor prison, crashed to his death after out of the blue lost control of his motorcycle with a sidecar, in which his two children were sitting. Before he was thrown from the motorcycle and died, he managed to shout to the children to jump out of the carriage to escape.
Later in the same year 1921, on 24 August, a young British Army captain, who was considered a fairly experienced driver, also lost control of his motorcycle in the same area of the same road. Fortunately, he survived, and in a press statement, he gave shocking details of the accident:
“It was not my fault. Believe it or not believe me, something was trying to shove my bike off the road and I saw it as clearly as on any other day, those hairy, big and muscular arms. I fought with them for the right to control the steering wheel, but they were much stronger than me and they still pushed my motorcycle to the side of the grass. When I came to, I was lying on the side of the road next to a motorcycle."
In the summer of 1924, respected folk collector Theo Brown, author of Devon Ghosts and Family Holidays around Dartmoor, decided to camp at a campsite half a mile off the sinister road. She said that that night, she also witnessed the appearance of ominous, ghostly hairy hands.
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At first, she felt something threatening next to her, and then she noticed some movement in the small window of her trailer. She examined a palm with thumbs and thick hair on the fingers. The trailer window was slightly open and those fingers were scratching through the window as if trying to get inside.
“I sensed that it wanted to harm my husband, who was sleeping in that side. I also felt that it is very angry and hates us. I understood that this is an unusual hand and that if we begin to fight with it, we can do nothing against it."
However, Theo Brown found a way out when she crossed herself and began to pray to herself. The hand then crawled down the glass and disappeared. The rest of the night passed quietly and the following nights too. Mrs Brown and her husband stayed there for several weeks and their hairy fingers no longer bothered them.
Another story about hairy hands comes from the author of the book "Supernatural Dartmoor" ("Paranormal Dartmoor") Michael Williams. He told journalist Rufus Endl in an interview that he was once driving a car past Postbridge and suddenly "a couple of strangers' hands took over control of the car."
Williams was forced to fight with hairy hands behind the wheel and barely managed to avoid a collision with another car. He was so scared by what had happened that he asked the journalist to publish this story in the newspaper only after his death.
Subsequently, there was a very long hiatus and Hairy Hands had not been seen on the B3212 road in Dartmoor for decades. Or they didn't tell anyone about it. The next story after Williams with hands dates back to 2008.
It happened on January 12, 2008, the driver Michael Anthony was driving home after meeting with new clients. In those years, he worked for a company that supplied copiers to British offices and traveled a lot around the country. It happened late in the evening, at about 11 o'clock, when Anthony headed down the road to Bristol. But as soon as he left Postbridge, a strange state of unreasonable fear and anxiety seized him.
He tried to convince himself that everything was fine and that he would now calmly come home to his wife and children, but then all of a sudden it all happened and took place for about two minutes, leaving behind a feeling of something very dark and ominous. At first Anthony felt that his fingers began to go numb and it even flashed in his head that he was having a stroke. "But it was not a stroke, but much worse."
In horror from what was happening, Anthony watched as two alien hands, huge and hairy, appeared over his hands on the steering wheel, and they abruptly turned the steering wheel, intending to push the car to the side of the road. Anthony struggled to resist this and three times repulsed an attempt to throw his car off the road.
After the third unsuccessful attempt, the hairy arms quickly disappeared into thin air and disappeared, and the shocked Anthony stopped his car only when he reached a service station on the M5 motorway.
