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The Wood of the Whistman

The Wood of the Whistman

by Alexandra Dawe

Tue, Jun 30, 2009

Wistmans Wood, Devon's oldest woodland is near Tavistock, England. The wood is often referred to as "the most haunted place on Dartmoor", a place not exactly lacking a few ghost stories! The stories claim that after sundown the woods' inhabitants roam the moors; faeries, ghosts, druids, hounds and the devil himself. Locals don't go near the wood after sundown, which sounds very sensible under the circumstances!