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One cold February night in southwest England, 1855, mysterious footprints suddenly appeared in the snow, around the Exe Estuary in South and East Devon.
These weren’t any ordinary tracks. They appeared to be hoof marks, measuring around 4 inches long, 3 inches across, and between 8 to 16 inches apart, appearing mostly in a single file line, in the same manner a bipedal (two-legged) creature might walk. These footprints, or hoofmarks as the case may be, were reported from over 30 locations, covering a total distance between 40 and 100 miles. Who or…what…could possibly travel that distance on foot, in a single night?
Exe Estuary, England
Fields in South Devon, after a snowfall
Sketch of the Devil’s footprints, as presented in the Illustrated London News, 1855
Music Credits:
- “Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy” – from the English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1923), performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
- “Nocturnes, L. 91 – 1. Nuages” – from Trois Nocturnes by Claude Debussy (1899), performed by Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit
- “Shepherd’s Hey” – by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1911), performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox
- All other music from the YouTube Audio Library and the Immortal Soles Podcast
