A few years ago it was whispered at Dulverton that a local gentleman – none other than Mr. Arthur Locke, the then secretary of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds – had “seed something” near the Wambarrows. We have never inquired of the genial squire whether there was any truth in the story, having, perhaps hastily, assumed that it was apocryphal, but it is a fact that the spot is supposed to be haunted by a black dog – first cousin of the Irish manthe dog.
From A Book of Exmoor by F J Snell (1903).