The Devil’s Footprints

When town residents in 19th century Southern Devon awoke to find a single line of hoof-like prints in the snow, they came to many interesting conclusions – before eventually settling on it being the work of the devil. Right.

Oddly, the marks continued in the same single pattern for a distance of 40 miles. According to some, this could have been the work of a kangaroo (with a lot of stamina), a balloon that had been trailing a horseshoe-shaped rope behind it (um, what?) or naturally, the Devil’s footprints! National newspapers at the time could not a find a “satisfactory solution” to explain the mysterious prints, as no known animal or man could (or would!) walk this distance overnight in a single line. Expect M. Night Shyamalan’s big-screen retelling any day now.