Spooky Mysteries
Some Believed They Were “The Marks of Satan Himself”
The 165-year-old unsolved mystery of “The Devil’s Footprints“ in Devon, England.
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4 min readNov 15, 2020
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165 years ago on a snowy and particularly cold February night, (The 6th of the month in 1855, to be exact), East and South Devon, England experienced a strange phenomenon. One that will not only remain unsolved but repeat itself more than a century later.
A dark visitor in Devon?
The morning of the mystery, which would come to be known as “The Curious Case of The Devil’s Footprints” or “The Great Devon Mystery of 1855”, the townsfolk of Devon and far out as Dorset, woke to a brand new blanket of snow.
Yet, their gasps of surprise were not because of the over-night flurry, but what they found tramped into the fresh powder.
