Welcome to Unexplained Extra, with me, Richard McClain Smith.

For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that for one reason or other

didn't make it into the show.

In last week's episode, Ghosts in Time, we looked at the strange occurrences that took

place in the 1920s at Borley Rectory in Essex, England.

What intrigues me most about the story is the slight air of credibility it carries due

to the reputable character of the witnesses and the anodine nature of the supposed hauntings.

But for others, a ghost story is nothing without something a little more sinister buried

somewhere within.

I was reminded of one such story, after receiving a tweet from Graham Murray, a listener of the

show.

Graham compared the phrase Borley Rectory, with the equally evocative, Grimpen Meyer.

For those that don't know, Grimpen Meyer is the fictional haunt of the hellish hound featured

in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's masterful Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound at the Baskerville.

The Meyer is actually based on the eerily beautiful Fox Tour Meyer, which is found on

Dartmoor in the southwest of England.

For a relatively small pocket of wilderness, there could be fair fewer places in the UK

so synonymous with a gloomy moonlit night as Dartmoor.

Home to some of the country's blackest and most treacherous of bogs, with some believed

as deep as 20 feet, it is rumoured to have snared even the most seasoned of travelers.

It is also the location of the infamous Dartmoor prison, whose looming grey granite walls

were said to make even its governor shudder at the mere sight of them.

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