Special Episode: The Hands

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Laurah is out sick this week; please enjoy the full release of Premium Episode 64, The Hands. In Southwestern England, a legend grew along the road now known along the B3212—one that involved an invisible entity that forced drivers off the roads and into dangerous, and even fatal, accidents.

Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton

Research by Laurah Norton and Melissa Gold

Engineered by Brand Schexnayder

Produced by Maura Currie

Works Cited

Kevin Dixon, “Dartmoor’s Hairy Hands. . .” We Are South Devon, 2021.
Tim Sandler, “Hairy Hands.” Legendary Dartmoor, 2016.

Christ Dovi, “Dozens of Callers. . .” The Richmond Times Dispatch, 2002.

N/A, “The Hairy Hands.” Haunted Devon, 2021.

BBC Devon, “Definitely Not A. . .” BBC, 2014 (Archived).

Blake Smith, “The Hairy Hands. . .” The Skeptic, 2022.

Bott, M. H. P. ; Day, A. A. ; Masson-Smith, D., “The Geological Interpretation of Gravity. . . “

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 251: 992, 1958.

Frances W. Green, “The interpretation of magnetic anomalies. . .” Masters thesis, Durham University, 1979.

What Lies Beyond Message Board

Jane Gilbert “Letterboxing on Dartmoor. . .” Time Travel Britain, 2006.

“Adverse Camber.” Cycling Coalition of Great Britain.

NSC, “Car Crash Deaths and Rates.” NSC, 2022.

N/A, “The Age of the Automobile.” US History.org, 2024.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Picture this. You're halfway through a DIY car fix, tools scattered everywhere, and boom,
0:05.8	you realize you're missing a part. It's okay because you know whatever it is, it's on eBay.
0:11.6	They've got everything. Brakes, headlights, cold air intakes, whatever you need. And it's guaranteed
0:16.7	to fit, which means no more crossing your fingers and hoping you ordered the right thing. All the parts you need at prices you'll love. Guaranteed to fit, which means no more crossing your fingers and hoping you ordered the right thing.
0:21.2	All the parts you need at prices you'll love.
0:24.1	Guaranteed to fit every time.
0:26.5	eBay, things people love.
0:34.5	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:39.9	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:52.7	Strangers, we have collected a number of stories about haunted highways and roads over the past four years.
1:00.6	Ghostly hitchhikers, they've made plenty of appearances, and please, we beg you, if you're driving along a lonely road at night,
1:09.0	do not offer rides to anyone who seems even the least
1:12.9	bit transparent. But there are plenty of other tales out there too. For instance, we found a few
1:20.2	news clippings about a spirit-plagued toll road in Virginia. According to the Richmond Times
1:26.4	dispatch, it was 2002 when a truck driver and a
1:30.4	toll booth operator claimed that, quote, three flickering points of light on a high bluff
1:35.6	were spotted along a local highway. When the truck driver drew closer, he saw what he described
1:41.8	as three ghostly figures holding torches. The driver reported that
1:46.9	two more of the figures appeared in front of his truck, and he hit the truck's horn in an effort to,
1:53.2	well, we don't know what, because we doubt personally that apparitions are dissuaded by honking.
2:00.0	But, per the Times dispatch, when he arrived at the
2:03.1	next toll booth and relayed that shocking encounter, it wasn't actually a shock to the toll booth operator.
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