10 REAL Mysteries That Would Make Great Doctor Who Episodes

1. The Hairy Hands Of Dartmoor

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Doctor Who and the Hairy Hands may not sound like the most amazing story idea in the world, but it's a fascinating mystery nonetheless.

Since around 1910, cyclists and motorists have suffered unusual accidents on the B3212. This road leads through a remote area of Dartmoor near Postbridge, and for decades there have been reports of a pair of disembodied hands that appear to grab a car's steering wheel or bicycle's handlebars, and force the vehicle off the road.

Psychic projection? Witchcraft? Nobody can tell for certain, but the idea of a Doctor Who story set purely in a remote stretch of Dartmoor late at night sends shivers down the spine. For what reason could an alien telepath want to force cars off the road? As a food source, perhaps? Or just to cause chaos?

Since Russell T Davies has re-introduced the Pantheon, the hairy hands needn't even be alien in origin. Maybe it's the work of a bored god, forcing stranded drivers into the moors to meet a terrifying fate. It sounds a lot like the work of Reprobate, the god of spite, who we're yet to meet, but who was name-dropped by Harriet Arbinger in The Legend of Ruby Sunday.

Think something along the tone of 73 Yards, but it's set in the foggy English countryside and features a vindictive god. Someone get Bad Wolf Studios on the phone!

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