The Devon moor that gave Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles: he heard here the tradition of Richard Cabell, a seventeenth-century squire whose coffin was said to have been followed by a pack of spectral hounds. They are called the Wisht Hounds and are still described along the old track. A separate story concerns the Hairy Hands on the B3212, which motorcyclists say grab at the handlebars.

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Yonaguni Monument

An underwater formation off the Japanese island of Yonaguni with flat terraces and right angles. Some read it as a sunken city, others as natural sandstone split along its bedding — the argument is still open.