The Devils Footprints Of 1855

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  • @stevenperkins-p5x
    @stevenperkins-p5x Місяць тому +52

    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
      @saturn722 27 днів тому +1

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

    • @BStab
      @BStab 7 днів тому

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

  • @Dark_Nemesis4300
    @Dark_Nemesis4300 Місяць тому +27

    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!

  • @iamgod6464
    @iamgod6464 Місяць тому +73

    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
      @user-ou7ni6su6h Місяць тому +4

      Did you take any photographs?

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 Місяць тому

      @@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
      @FoulOwl2112 Місяць тому +1

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

    • @Projectdarke
      @Projectdarke Місяць тому +1

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

    • @iamgod6464
      @iamgod6464 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @celestenova777
    @celestenova777 Місяць тому +18

    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
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому +5

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

    • @celestenova777
      @celestenova777 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @louiseowen8495
      @louiseowen8495 Місяць тому

      Burning sulphur? ​@@eeriesvault

    • @DirtySanchez943
      @DirtySanchez943 Місяць тому

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

  • @JosephBrien-iq9xm
    @JosephBrien-iq9xm 25 днів тому +14

    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!

  • @paulhiggins6024
    @paulhiggins6024 Місяць тому +27

    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
      @themajesticmagnificent386 Місяць тому +4

      That makes sense..If only we really knew…

    • @cornfusedatbest3980
      @cornfusedatbest3980 Місяць тому +11

      ... 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
      @nobodyuknow6337 28 днів тому +1

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

    • @paulsmyth3580
      @paulsmyth3580 10 днів тому

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

    • @nobodyuknow6337
      @nobodyuknow6337 9 днів тому

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

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings Місяць тому +13

    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
      @Rom3_29 Місяць тому +2

      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
      @VMM34 Місяць тому

      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

  • @runlarryrun77
    @runlarryrun77 Місяць тому +8

    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.

  • @micahjones4512
    @micahjones4512 14 днів тому +3

    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.

  • @paulsstrollsnskywatching
    @paulsstrollsnskywatching Місяць тому +5

    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 👍

  • @h.bsfaithfulservant4136
    @h.bsfaithfulservant4136 Місяць тому +3

    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 😉.

  • @rwentfordable
    @rwentfordable Місяць тому +2

    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.

  • @Geffo555
    @Geffo555 Місяць тому +6

    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
      @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 Місяць тому +4

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

    • @eeriesvault
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому +3

      Just googled Skiapod. Life will never be the same 😂

    • @spencerhardy8667
      @spencerhardy8667 Місяць тому +3

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

    • @glenmorgan4597
      @glenmorgan4597 Місяць тому +2

      I go for the clown explanation

    • @MelanieRuck-dq5uo
      @MelanieRuck-dq5uo Місяць тому +1

      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?

  • @misstessamarie21
    @misstessamarie21 Місяць тому +4

    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. ❤

  • @hedgewitch59
    @hedgewitch59 Місяць тому +12

    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
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому +2

      Awesome. Bed time for me, goodnight 👍

    • @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425
      @teaspoonsofpeanutbutter6425 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @pattyandbustershow1031
    @pattyandbustershow1031 Місяць тому +4

    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

  • @Unknown-UpTown-Resident
    @Unknown-UpTown-Resident Місяць тому +2

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

  • @BertieShaul-mn4qc
    @BertieShaul-mn4qc Місяць тому +4

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

  • @alaricbragg7843
    @alaricbragg7843 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @beebeelicious
    @beebeelicious Місяць тому +2

    Great in depth analysis, thanks again 😸

  • @BertieShaul-mn4qc
    @BertieShaul-mn4qc Місяць тому +6

    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
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому +3

      Great mystery

    • @ManWhorse
      @ManWhorse 28 днів тому

      Yeah but it also went through a shed

    • @kathykonkle1097
      @kathykonkle1097 5 днів тому

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

  • @anthonysheppard9247
    @anthonysheppard9247 4 дні тому +1

    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 .

  • @jonstarbird8484
    @jonstarbird8484 4 дні тому +1

    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!!!

  • @tleevz1
    @tleevz1 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @flintsky7706
    @flintsky7706 Місяць тому +3

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

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings Місяць тому +2

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

  • @Davidbirdman101
    @Davidbirdman101 20 днів тому +2

    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.

  • @jimrockford9486
    @jimrockford9486 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @padraiggluck2980
    @padraiggluck2980 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @RandyBaumery-s4i
    @RandyBaumery-s4i Місяць тому +3

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

  • @marioduddu471
    @marioduddu471 22 дні тому +1

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

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings Місяць тому +2

    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

  • @singood7790
    @singood7790 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @KevinAugustt
    @KevinAugustt Місяць тому +1

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

  • @cann-e2q
    @cann-e2q 18 днів тому +2

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

  • @PeterKirkMusician
    @PeterKirkMusician Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @jontaylor4511
    @jontaylor4511 8 днів тому +1

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

  • @WadeRaney-vv5oi
    @WadeRaney-vv5oi Місяць тому +1

    A Great Presentation 👋

  • @psylegio
    @psylegio Місяць тому +4

    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
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому

      I wonder if the river was frozen over as well?

    • @psylegio
      @psylegio Місяць тому +2

      @@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! 😊👍

  • @andy-the-gardener
    @andy-the-gardener Місяць тому +3

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

    • @andy-the-gardener
      @andy-the-gardener Місяць тому

      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
    @bigbossimmotal Місяць тому +2

    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
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому +1

      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

  • @choosetolivefree
    @choosetolivefree 9 днів тому

    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

  • @JackNap1er14
    @JackNap1er14 28 днів тому +1

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

  • @philthycat1408
    @philthycat1408 Місяць тому +4

    TIGGER ?

  • @whatnow9653
    @whatnow9653 Місяць тому +1

    It was windy, so someone's trampoline.

  • @alexchambers5043
    @alexchambers5043 16 днів тому +1

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

  • @brianfpp540
    @brianfpp540 Місяць тому +2

    Strange pronunciation of 'ar' !

  • @pauljermyn5909
    @pauljermyn5909 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @freddog4490
    @freddog4490 Місяць тому +2

    Donkeys don’t have cloven hooves !!!

  • @BigBoyAlbee
    @BigBoyAlbee 9 днів тому +1

    This story should have stayed back in 1855

  • @divineglitch9550
    @divineglitch9550 Місяць тому +2

    it was an escaped goat

  • @populuxe1
    @populuxe1 Місяць тому +3

    'Twas Pan!

  • @alexandercarder2281
    @alexandercarder2281 28 днів тому +1

    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 😅

  • @Rom3_29
    @Rom3_29 Місяць тому +9

    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
      @ManWhorse 28 днів тому

      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
      @JohnnyDanger36963 17 днів тому

      ​​@@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

  • @gammy4400
    @gammy4400 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @jonathanpeterson1984
    @jonathanpeterson1984 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @VMM34
    @VMM34 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @andevil777
    @andevil777 9 днів тому +1

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

  • @anders4881
    @anders4881 Місяць тому +1

    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 😉

  • @brianjames5685
    @brianjames5685 Місяць тому +3

    jamaican bobsleigh team

  • @Leeza-G
    @Leeza-G 13 днів тому +1

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

  • @pattyandbustershow1031
    @pattyandbustershow1031 Місяць тому +1

    Okay. Finally, I vote for a deer

  • @markward6076
    @markward6076 20 днів тому

    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.

  • @pattyandbustershow1031
    @pattyandbustershow1031 Місяць тому +2

    Donkeys walk in a straight line

  • @brianjames5685
    @brianjames5685 Місяць тому +1

    This was the work of jeremy Beedle.

  • @allankerr4652
    @allankerr4652 Місяць тому

    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🤔

  • @seka1986
    @seka1986 23 дні тому +2

    DEVIL OF DEVON!

  • @themajesticmagnificent386
    @themajesticmagnificent386 Місяць тому +1

    Stilt artists formerly known as prints…

  • @butter7734
    @butter7734 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Місяць тому +1

    A subterrenean heaven, a subterrenean hell😢😢😢

  • @robertsargent4600
    @robertsargent4600 8 днів тому +1

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

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td
    @ThomasAllan-up4td 29 днів тому

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

  • @DirtySanchez943
    @DirtySanchez943 Місяць тому +2

    Jersey 🇯🇪 Devil 😈 😊😊😊

  • @debzthomson9671
    @debzthomson9671 23 дні тому

    Donkeys don't have cloven hoofs

  • @piplee1439
    @piplee1439 21 день тому +1

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

  • @Peter-gq4ww
    @Peter-gq4ww Місяць тому +2

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

    • @eeriesvault
      @eeriesvault  Місяць тому

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

  • @cityonthelakes
    @cityonthelakes Місяць тому +1

    Rabbit tracks

  • @brianjames5685
    @brianjames5685 Місяць тому +1

    Hare relay team?

  • @KingsleyGallagher
    @KingsleyGallagher 7 днів тому +1

    The balloon 🎈 theory, 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

  • @BertieShaul-mn4qc
    @BertieShaul-mn4qc Місяць тому +2

    Maybe it's a Camel 🐫 🤔

  • @tonyhill8300
    @tonyhill8300 Місяць тому

    Ffs pronounce your a properly