The Ghost That Walks One Step a Year

In Devon, there is a ghost that does not wander, repeat, or appear at midnight.

According to local folklife records, an unnamed spook begins at the River Exe and moves toward Duvale Farm, advancing only one cockstride a year. Barely a foot. Measured carefully. Remembered for generations.

By the mid-20th century, locals believed it had already reached halfway across the dividing field.

No name is recorded.
No origin is given.
Only the rule and the slow, inevitable movement forward.

This story comes from the Devon Folklife Register and reflects how hauntings were once documented, without explanation, without embellishment and without resolution.

Because the question was never whether it would arrive.
only who would be there when it did.

Would you walk that field at dusk?
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