The Squire of Spitchwick’s Ghostly Procession

In the shadowed heart of Dartmoor, where the River Teign weaves through Dunsford’s ancient groves, the ruined estate of Spitchwick whispers a chilling legacy—the ghostly funeral procession of Squire Richard Cabell III, a cruel master whose death in 1710 birthed a midnight cortège of phantom horses, shadowed mourners, and his own spectral form, marching from park to Widecombe’s churchyard under moonless skies. Bound by whispers of his wife’s mysterious end and a life steeped in malice, Cabell’s spirit leads this eerie parade, seen by trembling villagers through centuries, its silent hooves and damp-earth scent a haunting echo of remorse that binds the moor’s winding roads to an unrestful past.