A history of Kitty`s Grave

Below are some excellent online resources, which have been used to unfold the history of Kitty-Jay and go forward to composite the Game`s storyline and purpose.
These sites can be found by clicking the link below

• Legendary Dartmoor Website
• Mortonhampstead Website
• Haunted Britain Website 
• Torbay Investigators of the Paranormal 

Some video resources by various authors including the BBC

• Jays Grave
• Video Nation - David Phillips
• The Moon Man Cometh

Some good, though anecdotal, book resources:

• Mary`s Child by Celia A. Leaman
• Angel from Your Door: The Story of Kitty Jay of Jay's Grave, Dartmoor; and, They of the House - to Bed! : A True Story of Dartmoor - This book is a hard to find digital resource and best found through access to your local library copy.  (If you are a citizen of the UK, then you are already a library member, no signing up to anything, just ring, ask if its in, go get it!)
  Some good, though anecdotal, book resources:
   
  Composited from the above resources and field work to document the areas of interest for the game development, below is a non exhaustive list that identifies relevant and factual information regarding Jay`s Grave.
  
  
  • Kitty had hung herself in one of the Canna Farm outbuildings, which is situated between Forder and Torhill on Dartmoor. 
  • The Grave is said to hold the Body of a young woman, identified as Mary "Kitty" Jay the orphaned girl from the Wolborough workhouse in Newton Abbot, Devon.
  • The Grave is situated on a cross road close to Houndtor, Dartmoor.  The body was buried there due to Victorian superstition in the 18th century regarding lost souls....
   'The custom of the day was that any suicide could not be buried in consecrated ground as so they were interred at a crossroads, some times with a stake driven through their hearts. This was to ensure that the restless soul of the departed could not return to haunt god fearing mortals.'              (legendarydartmoor.co.uk, 2009)
  • Farmer James Bryant was reported to of opened the grave, in the presence of his son-in-law Mr. J. W. Sparrow(a medical professional), and discovered the human bone remains of "Kitty".  The skull was taken to Hedge Barton to confirm the remains were female and of kitty`s reported age range (16-22), but was afterwards placed with the bones in a box and re-interred in the old grave, a small mound raised with head and foot stones erected at either end, made from local Dartmoor rock.
  • Since the day James Bryant dug up Kitty Jay, fresh flowers are left daily without claimant or cause, and no one has been able to catch anyone/ thing (Pixies or fairies apparently) doing it.