Within a week, I have attempted to take on the advice of Lee Gutkind when he says there are three ways to research a potential idea, "Begin with library research, then interview the most important people, then allow yourself a personal experience by immersing yourself in the place or experience about which you are writing." With this in mind, what I have learned about Richard Cabell and the area of Buckfastleigh is that at Cabell's tomb itself, there is the belief that Satanists would perform rituals and other manners of worship at the tomb, as well as Buckfastleigh Holy Trinity Church having been burned down, with images of pentagrams carved into the walls, with Cabell's tomb just a few yards away. I have also learned that Arthur Conan Doyle had visited these exact moors in 1901 when researching the tale of Dartmoor's ethereal "hound" after hearing it from his friend, Bertrum Fletcher Robinson.
I have also seen many images of what the Dartmoor moors, the moors that inspired that of Arthur Conan Doyle, look like today, including an image of a paw-print in the mud. This really helps me imagine the atmosphere of such a legendary place that holds so many ghost stories, but also, helps me immerse myself in what I imagine it looks like from the images and descriptions from other people, using various methods of immersion, discussed in Week 6 of our Telling True Stories seminars.
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