Urban Legends
alex jane from london, uk · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
alex jane from london, uk · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Folklore

Wistman's Wood

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A tiny grove of dwarf oaks on Dartmoor, growing straight out of granite boulders and covered entirely in moss and lichen. The trees are wind-twisted past recognition and there are gaps between the stones deep enough to swallow a person. The name is traced to the dialect word wisht — eerie, enchanted. It is thought to be one of the last remnants of the forest that covered Dartmoor before the Bronze Age.

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