The Devil’s Footprints: The Night Something Walked Across Devon in the Snow

The 1855 Illustrated London News drawing of the hoof-like tracks found in the snow in Devon

About 4 min readOn the morning of 9 February 1855, people across south Devon woke to find lines of small hoof-shaped prints in fresh snow — prints that seemed to cross walls, roofs and rivers. More than 170 years later, no single explanation accounts for them all.