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The Devil's Footprints are a wierd mystery which nobody has been able to solve. The largest occurence happened in England in 1855 involving 18 communities in Devon County. During a rather cold winter, residents woke up one morning to find close to 100 miles worth of horse-shoe like prints roaming the towns. The prints were all single file as though a one-legged man were hopping along. The consistency of the story didn't change significantly from one town to another. The tracks led through walls, walked on rooftops, appeared from one side of rivers to the other and even climbed through 6 inch diameter drainpipes.Starting and stopping as if from nowhere.The tracks roamed through gardens and across the streets and led out to nowhere. There were accounts of people tracing the prints only to see them stop and carry on a little farther away as though the creature jumped or flew at times. The tracks were evenly spaced at 8 inches although other second-hand accounts get them as high as 14-16 inches apart. The foot was generally 4 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide and didn't have the characteristic left-right-left-right motion to them. Townspeople all started calling them the Devil's Footprints and people feared to leave their houses at night.Explanations for the Devil's FootprintsThere were a number of explanations that never fully explained anything. For one, hoaxers were probably responsible for some of the tracks days later but not the original tracks. A number of animals have been theoretically blamed such as otters, mice, rats, birds, hares, cats and even kangaroos. Other theories include sea-monsters coming from the nearby rivers, meteorological phenomena creating prints with water, someone in a hot air balloon and even the usual far-fetched conclusion of extraterrestrials mapping the towns from their ufo's!For more info on the Devil's FootprintsWhatever the true nature of the Devil's Footprints, we'll probably never know for sure. There have been reports before and after those of the Devon case. If you want to read a lot more on it, take a look at www.mikedash.com - editor of the Fortean Times. He has the original story by Charles Fort from 1919. Well worth reading if you have an hour or 2 to spare - it's 84 pages of info and theories!
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