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SPOOKY TALES FOR OCTOBER
Ghosts in My Neighbourhood: The Mystery of Jay’s Grave
A tragic story of a young girl and her unknown visitor
Dartmoor’s soil breeds legends.
If it isn’t stories of faerie people, it’s spooky tales of mysterious visitors and unexplained disappearances.
During the month of October, I am making it my duty to share a few spooky Dartmoor legends to enrich your Hallowe’en all the more. So pull up a beanbag to the fireside, brew yourself a hot cocoa, and let’s settle in for today’s story.
Kitty Jay and Her Grave
Along a tiny lane that leads from the village of Widecombe up to the ancient Stannary town of Chagford on the north side of the moor, there lies an intersection between the road and a moorland track.
At that intersection lies a grave.
That grave is believed to house the remains of a young girl named Kitty Jay, an orphan who, in her teens, was sent from the orphanage in which she was raised to work as an apprentice on a Dartmoor farm, in the early nineteenth century.
