The Devils Footprints Of 1855 [Real Human Voice]

[@iamgod6464]

As an ex resident of Dawlish, Devon, the same thing revisited us in in the Bad Winter of 1967-68. We woke up to biped footprints all over our backyard, roof and our neighbours experienced the same phenomena. We all thought Spring Heel Jack had returned. Needless to say most of the Town stayed indoors over that Xmas.

[@user-ou7ni6su6h]

Did you take any photographs?

[@iamgod6464]

@@user-ou7ni6su6h I was 5 at the time and none of my family owned a camera and we didn't have smart phones back then but I believe The Dawlish Gazette published photos.😈

[@FoulOwl2112]

​@@user-ou7ni6su6hOf course not. Because it's BS

[@Projectdarke]

Bold claim, can any Dawlish residents back up your story?

[@iamgod6464]

@@Projectdarke Anyone who was around back in 1967.😊👍

[@stevenperkins-p5x]

I first came across this story over 40 years ago, sadly just about every version of the tale here on youtube always seem to omit the true ending that adds so much to the story, where the lord of the manor took a party including dogs to follow the tracks which ended in a wood by a large hole, that the dogs were too scared to venture into!!

[@saturn722]

True ending? And you’re not going to give a reference?

[@BStab]

​@@saturn722 40 years ago, and you expect them to remember a reference ? Unrealistic expectations.

[@markjones4457]

@@BStab This is one of the stories that got me into weird stuff when i was a really young kid. I think it was in a book i read in primary school when i was five. the book was called Strangely enough. I seem to recall the ending being that some men followed the footprints and they just went around a huge 100 mile + circuit, and they ended up back where they started!! I'm now 53, so i heard it around 40 years ago too. No reference!

[@JosephBrien-iq9xm]

After dinner with friends way back in mid-winter of 1982, the conversation turned to “super-natural” stuff. I recalled a story about strange cloven footprints left in the snow and managed to find an old “Readers Digest” book which described the event. After reading the passage to my friends, we realized that the event had occurred on February 8, 1855 - and we read the story on February 8… Spooky!

[@Dark_Nemesis4300]

Cracking video. I live here, and often think about those footprints when I'm down Exmouth way. One small correction, is the pronunciation of Teignmouth. It is pronounced "Tin-muth" by us locals!

[@celestenova777]

Makes me wonder if this 'thing' is running over night fields and buildings when there is no snow..so weird. Thanks EV, best telling of this phenomena on here.

[@eeriesvault]

Yeah what if it ran along the fields before it snowed, and left some residue behind where snow wouldn't stick?

[@celestenova777]

@eeriesvault oh yes...I like your thinking 🙂

[@louiseowen8495]

Burning sulphur? ​@@eeriesvault

[@DirtySanchez943]

I love how you slowly 🐌 reveal the culprit in the end!!!💝💝💝

[@jessehutchings]

I really wish we had actual photos of these prints. I think it's simply impossible to solve this mystery without them and many mysteries can't even be solved with photos!

[@Rom3_29]

Cameras back then were very heavy and big contraptions. It took an almost minute to take one photo on glass negative. On old photos people had to stay still a few minutes. While photographer’s head was under black blanket.

[@VMM34]

Yes, I wish there'd been photos, as how can the hoofprints of a donkey be the same as a cloven hoof? Both descriptions were used in the story

[@paulhiggins6024]

Air balloon, broke loose fro from its tether at Royal Navy Dockyard Devenport and floated off dragging its anchor rope through the snow… is one explanation…

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

That makes sense..If only we really knew…

[@cornfusedatbest3980]

... but not a very good one. This would suggest the towns folk were complete numbskulls because they couldn't tell the difference between an animal track and a dragging rope. Also, it fails to explain the tracks entering the shed and exiting a hole on the other side. That would be one magical rope, wouldn't you say?

[@nobodyuknow6337]

There are so many answers but the media always goes for the most dramatic.

[@paulsmyth3580]

@@nobodyuknow6337 So many you' can't name one

[@nobodyuknow6337]

@@paulsmyth3580 I'd love to find out that it was a strange formation of late migrating birds and the *footprints* were just bird droppings.😄

[@omgwtfbbqownage]

Your videos are so detailed, and you always share with us information, that others of your kind dont. Magnificent work you've done here!

[@hedgewitch59]

There's nothing better than waking up to an Eerie's Vault. I've heard many versions of this story but you make it better than anyone else's. Thank you Mr Eerie. 🇦🇺

[@eeriesvault]

Awesome. Bed time for me, goodnight 👍

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

​@@eeriesvaultme too! In my actual bed n'al as it was the sofa last night (big fat spider above my bed saw me out😩)

[@micahjones4512]

I've heard this before and it's fascinating. I've never heard anyone say anything about where they started. I'm still in the beginning of this though.

[@SteveJones-gz4vd]

This exact same story was told to me by my grandfather , he lived in the valleys in S Wales at the turn of the century

[@Geffo555]

Great story with plenty of details. A Cryptid feel to it. Nice. This has intrigued me since reading about it in a booklet of weird events (It's still A Mystery) in 1970. A schoolmate suggested that a crazed clown on a pogo stick could explain it. I reckon it was a skiapod.

[@teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425]

That sent me down a path of disturbing images I would happily have done without!

[@eeriesvault]

Just googled Skiapod. Life will never be the same 😂

[@spencerhardy8667]

Only known incident of a Wendigo blown off course from Canada by the "stress of weather."

[@glenmorgan4597]

I go for the clown explanation

[@MelanieRuck-dq5uo]

A crazed clown on a pogo stick is such a great and amusing image! Your schoolmate had a fanastic imagination. He must be a writer or something now?

[@runlarryrun77]

This was a very interesting deep dive, thank you. If you suppose there hasn't been much embellishment on the details here & it really was an unbroken line of single prints (cloven or otherwise) then it defies natural explanation. I've got no answers other than that musing, but this one could be a genuine supernatural event in my opinion.

[@paulsstrollsnskywatching]

Your Documentarys just get better n better , how about one based on Shuck n wish hounds . I have a black dog legend a few miles from where I live at a place called Howell Mouth there is a Natural spring there which link the black dog and water connection ,my Dad now in his 80s used to tell me that as kids they used to go there n heard strange noises 👍

[@pattyandbustershow1031]

There is no way a donkey would be out, but they do walk in a straight line which is why they are preferred for field work

[@jonstarbird8484]

In the 1980`s whilst staying in the Bavarian Alps (Kempton) it snowed in the night and the next day we found large animal hoof prints that lead up to the three story building then jumped 40 feet onto the roof over the roof and then carrying on across a field on the other side of the building!!!

[@Unknown-UpTown-Resident]

Great video homie! U been droppin BANGERS! 👍👍👍

[@rwentfordable]

I really enjoyed this video. I've seen many on this topic but no where near this detail. I loved the inclusion of martial and speculation decades later and parallels with other cases around the world. Liked and subscribed.

[@eeriesvault]

Awesome, thank you!

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

Yup, you've got me this time Eerie 😊... I'm stumped! How about someone on a unicycle, with cloven nodes engineered into the wheel? He must have had nerves of steel riding along tops of walls and roof tops 😝 I liked the air balloon idea, maybe with a wheel at the end of a rope 🤔...mind you, one report said the marks varied between 8 and 14 inches, so that's not a wheel... How about a weird underground anomaly, exposed by the unexpected snowfall...but walls, haystacks and rooves 👀, maybe not 😕 Did the prints go through woodland I wonder? If not, then they could have been created from height... we're back to the 🎈 again 😉.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

This is a really good story! It's really got me thinking, I like the theory of the Hot Air Balloon 🎈. I mean it went over rooftops, for heaven's sake!

[@eeriesvault]

Great mystery

[@ManWhorse]

Yeah but it also went through a shed

[@kathykonkle1097]

Yeah. Hoaxters in a balloon. Ballooning was big back then.

[@anicetolandeiro6652]

With a one-wheeled "bicycle" (like in a circus) with some hoof-shaped objects around the circumference of the wheel, perhaps it would be possible to ride on soft ground leaving the marks all at the same distance without leaving other marks around. It's another hypothesis.

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

Thank you! What a fantastic investigation 🔎! ❤❤😮😮😊😊

[@misstessamarie21]

Ive always been fascinated with this case. Thank you for making a video about it. ❤🙏🏻❤ You always do an amazing job. Providing details I've never heard of. ❤

[@eeriesvault]

Thank you so much!

[@alaricbragg7843]

Thanks for this video! Great coverage of the story and interesting theories. I really do not know the answer to this mystery.

[@tleevz1]

This is one of the coolest and most interesting spirit pranks I've heard of.

[@beebeelicious]

Great in depth analysis, thanks again 😸

[@Davidbirdman101]

Speaking of badgers, I was driving home one day and I caught the sight of some kind of strange animal in a ditch and I slowed down to a crawl, rolled down the window and it was a large badger. It turned it's attention to me and snarled really loud and the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got out of the place real fast.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

The Devil's Badger. Obviously.

[@flintsky7706]

Yall don’t realize how easy it was to prank people back then…

[@jessehutchings]

I like your outro music. It has a funny 90s public broadcasting educational TV feel to it

[@jimrockford9486]

This looks like something that rolls. The "hoof like" prints could be pads or tracks like possibly from a drone / probe.

[@singood7790]

I saw the thumbnail and froze!! I saw this once behind my house in the winter on a small trail I made. The tracks just started and stopped after 8 feet. No other tracks nothing!! I still have the photo and have searched tracks plus showed many ppl but no success or no one cared lol.

[@choosetolivefree]

People always go straight to the paranormal. Without question there's an explanation. It wouldn't be the first mystery that turned out having a mundane explanation

[@anthonysheppard9247]

I'm in Norway 🇳🇴 and know you also do another channel ,tv related ,,what is up with your accent the way you over emphasise some words ,is it for dramatic effect or just the way you talk. The story is really interesting and well put together .

[@eeriesvault]

It's just how I talk

[@padraiggluck2980]

I read an account of the mysterious devil’s footprints when I was a boy or teenager long ago. There is no natural explanation.

[@marioduddu471]

Very interesting event. It is logical wonder if there is any information on where these tracks began and where they ended.

[@DirtySanchez943]

It was little ol'e me... Frolicking😊😊😊

[@jessehutchings]

Mountain goats are known to climb onto rooftops by the way. Again, photos of the houses and if they are close enough to the ground or something for a goat to hop onto

[@RandyBaumery-s4i]

I read this account in a book I was given as a preteen. Stranger Than Science by Frank Edwards.

[@cann-e2q]

The hot air balloon theory is interesting, but I think the devil was afoot, that night.

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

A Great Presentation 👋

[@psylegio]

To me two things stand out. One is the scale and the other the walking on walls, traversing the body of water and such. If the weather conditions were somehow extreme, causing ordinary footprints of several varieties of animal tracks to all look like hoofs it would not have been in a line stretching for 100 miles would they? And would it have been one individual animal walking 100 miles over night it would not have walked through haystacks and on walls, within enclosed gardens would it? As for the stiltmen, that could explain the tracks but could any group of hundred people keep quiet about it for the rest of their lives, only for a few descendents telling it later? Perhaps if it was a tightly knit group who could spill the tales within their circle but not outside it. But how could it be executed in one single night, by so many involved even in peoples gardens without anyone witnessing anything? A pretty cool mystery really.

[@eeriesvault]

I wonder if the river was frozen over as well?

[@psylegio]

@@eeriesvault indeed it would have to have been very cold for moving water to freeze hard enough to hold to walk on. Particularly for humans and certainly on stilts. If it was frozen and without tracks then we are back to humans, who somehow could pull this off unnoticed and without leaving obvious clues behind. Google told me that migrating deer moves some 20 miles in a day but why just one animal then? And why 3-5 times that? This was an entertaining enigma! 😊👍

[@PeterKirkMusician]

Never understood how the tracked them for Mies, I live near little ham ( spooky place in on a sunny day BTW) it's pretty twisty turns and hilly around here.

[@jontaylor4511]

There is a colony of wallabies in the UK, not sure when they got established.

[@KevinAugustt]

Any story that's weird from that long ago is almost always fake or setup by the first person to spot it.

[@anders4881]

I first came across this story in a kids’ magazine back in the early 70s and it’s always fascinated me. Rather than finding it creepy though, I’ve always imagined a playful, mischievous faun or satyr out for a laugh in the snow, like Mr Tumnus with a sense of humour 😉

[@gammy4400]

I think this might have been some sort of bicycle with tires modified for travel in the snow, though that doesn't explain the tracks on the roofs. Excellent channel, by the way. You deserve far, far more subscribers.

[@eeriesvault]

Thank you very much 👍

[@DirtySanchez943]

Three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run, see how they run, they all run 🏃‍♂️ to the Exeter side😊😊😊

[@JackNap1er14]

It could of been a toy, but then where did the tracks end?

[@andy-the-gardener]

hmm, i wonder if it was a hoax leading to mass hysteria

[@andy-the-gardener]

yes i think you are right andy. there was probably an initial hoax track made by some joker who stuck things on his bike tyres, which went over a field or two, and that kicked the idea off in the public and presses imagination, who started seeing /reporting them everywhere, but they were just fox tracks or made up sightings. so people are really going to get a ladder and check the tracks on their roof made by a cat or bird.

[@bigbossimmotal]

I swear this guy could read a flipping Cook Book, and I would still enjoy it. 🙂 Good writing and research too! So where is the accent from?

[@eeriesvault]

It's just a mix of bits I've picked up over the years. Lived in a lot of places. I guess nobody else really has it

[@RobertEskuri]

It was Sauron. Whenever he gets killed he explodes and everything within miles freezes and he has to walk out assimilating every living creature he encounters. 😊

[@philthycat1408]

TIGGER ?

[@whatnow9653]

It was windy, so someone's trampoline.

[@alexchambers5043]

Haha the devil always walks like he is taking a sobriety test

[@alexandercarder2281]

It is what people felt it was, a devil 😈 btw I live not far from Acle and it is pronounced Ayecle 😉 and we have the Acle straight from Acle to Great Yarmouth where I reside and Norwich is not far from the opposite direction from Acle. And I never knew we had the devil’s prints 😅

[@pauljermyn5909]

Ive seen prints like this in mud, it was an otter

[@populuxe1]

'Twas Pan!

[@brianfpp540]

Strange pronunciation of 'ar' !

[@freddog4490]

Donkeys don’t have cloven hooves !!!

[@markward6076]

Why does Bigfoot only leave a single foot print? Never a left and a right, never prints left around campsites that are being harrast by creatures in the night.

[@Leeza-G]

Great content. New subscriber here. 👋🏽🫶🏼👍🏽✨

[@eeriesvault]

Welcome aboard!

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

Just a hot air balloon dragging two bags of sand…………….or that’s what the local authorities officially said it was🤔

[@divineglitch9550]

it was an escaped goat

[@iandavies7991]

The prints don’t look like a bipedal walk at all. The stride is too small and they’re in a perfect line. Foot prints would be left and right. A small animal hopping is the mist obvious explanation along with mass hysteria and misreporting. Having said that, I think it doesn’t look like an animal at all. It almost looks like some sort of tyre track. I’m not saying it is but it brings up the idea of something rolling

[@andevil777]

Nothing to see here, just old Scratch out for a stroll..

[@DirtySanchez943]

A subterrenean heaven, a subterrenean hell😢😢😢

[@Rom3_29]

Job 1:7 The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" In response, Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it."…

[@ManWhorse]

Ezekiel 23:20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. The Bible says some wild shit, don’t it?

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

​​@@ManWhorseThen Porky stuck his Snoot in the SLop and uttered,Lo,it is Good!! ,then a voice from the heavens Trumpeted, BEHOLD,PORKY HAS PARTAKEN OF THE HOLY SLOP! 7:09

[@pattyandbustershow1031]

Okay. Finally, I vote for a deer

[@DirtySanchez943]

Jersey 🇯🇪 Devil 😈 😊😊😊

[@VMM34]

How can the footprints of a donkey resemble a cloven hoof?

[@brianjames5685]

This was the work of jeremy Beedle.

[@seka1986]

DEVIL OF DEVON!

[@allankerr4652]

These are not a two footed creature, four footed animals do not walk feet spread apart, foot right and left they walk in a linear narrow line fashion, each foot following the other especially in snow one foot followed by the other of course it’s a fox or a badger or something that’s all, hence about 6 inches wide watch a dog walk! I wonder why there are no pictures of the footprints travelling though walls!! The hoof pattern is one foot following in the print of the other🤔

[@ThomasAllan-up4td]

One thing is for sure. It wasn't the devil.

[@brianjames5685]

jamaican bobsleigh team

[@eeriesvault]

😂

[@pattyandbustershow1031]

Donkeys walk in a straight line

[@helentomlinson6606]

Not over rooves they dont

[@robertsargent4600]

Life is stranger than shit it sounds like the jersey devil 👿 in the United States

[@debzthomson9671]

Donkeys don't have cloven hoofs

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

Stilt artists formerly known as prints…

[@eeriesvault]

Very good 👍

[@jessiejames7492]

One legged demon?

[@butter7734]

Sounds like the Jersey Devil. Hooved creature with wings that was bipedal. Sounds the same.

[@piplee1439]

The mystery is this accent ; Aus, New Yaaark and Queens English ????

[@KingsleyGallagher]

The balloon 🎈 theory, 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

[@cityonthelakes]

Rabbit tracks

[@brianjames5685]

Hare relay team?

[@Peter-gq4ww]

I can't quite place your accent, the way you pronounce "ard" sounds like a new Zealander is that right?

[@eeriesvault]

I have adopt a lot of odd additions to my accent over the years due to spending time in other countries

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

Maybe it's a Camel 🐫 🤔

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

Maybe a Camel 🐫 with wings 🪽

[@glenmorgan4597]

​@@BertieShaul-mn4qcor a duck billed platypus

[@BertieShaul-mn4qc]

@@glenmorgan4597 with wings?!

[@tonyhill8300]

Ffs pronounce your a properly

[@BigBoyAlbee]

This story should have stayed back in 1855

[@FukinMikeAlright]

How in the 1850s did they get up onto roofs and 14 foot walls to check these said prints, with enough detail to be able to tell the distance between prints didnt vary?