The Devil's Footprints
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On the morning of 9th February 1855, the people of mid-Devon awoke to find their homes smothered by a thick blanket of snow. But it soon became apparent that whilst they had been sleeping, some unknown entity had apparently cut a path straight through their county, leaving a mysterious trail where its feet had passed upon the ground. Who or what was responsible for the Devil’s Footprints?
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Hey bedtime stories great to you guys upload looking forward to watching your video tonight
were no strangers to love
I needed a new bedtime story today! Thank you!
You have a drawer of snacks too! I thought I was the only one.
Dear BTS, I can't wait for more episodes of Victorian England.
BTW, if you could do more sea mysteries that would be great.
Holy fack man! You look totally how I imagined by your voice.
I love how the when the constable was summoned by the son of a farmer in the early hours of the morning, he agreed to go check things out but told the kid to build a snowman for his daughters before departing from his house. That's the most charmingly benign abuse of police authority ever. "If you want my help, it's going to cost you--one snowman."
A small price to pay for salvation. Actually very wholesome.
It was a ploy the entire time, the kid never had his snowman-making license and was going to get fined when the copper got back. truly a horror story fit for bed time
It wasn't the farmer's son, it was his
The kid apparently had frost bitten fingers as a result
Lol, laughed and told my boyfriend this part as he was reading and didn’t hear it. Thought it was hilarious as well.
This really gave me the creeps. My grandfather witnessed a similar event in New England, in the early 1920s. Bipedal footprints in the snow, going on for miles on end. Local Native Americans said they recognized this as the visitation of a Wendigo. There was more to it, but that's all my grandfather was willing to say about the event. Whatever else he knew he took to his grave.
Makes sense. A lot of American Indians are very superstitious when it comes to discussing certain entities, especially Wendigo and Skinwalkers.
@@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298 they are very in tune with nature and the spiritual side of it.
Coming, going or Coming and then going away? Because even the most mundane answer is scary.
Talk about it is avoid, due to the summoning of the matter...
Yeah there is a specific reason not to talk about those specific things if you believe in them. Essentially names are important and just talking about them in general causes you to attract them. If you ever need to get out of a speeding ticket on native land, is always worth a shot to claim something chased you. By the time you even start generically describing it, Cop is liable to shove a hand in your face and tell you to shut up before quickly hopping back in his own car and also speeding away. It is super taboo and taken pretty seriously in some indigenous cultures. It is actually kind of funny because given modern conveniences they arent super threatening, they are like 0 for a million against cars for instance, but they are known for being horrifying so the like slim chance they are real makes people go why bother and follow the traditions.
The constable ordering the kid to build a snowman to prove to the community that he’s a good father was not what I was expecting to hear.
Yeah I fully expected him to forget about the snowman. Wholesome
He should have paid the boy
@@theviking1359
Oh I bet he gave the boy a few shillings after he returned.
“Some demonic footprints, eh? Yeah, yeah, I’ll go check it out. Now build a snowman for my daughters, urchin!”
Just like "allowing" his girls to look out the window at the snow.
The Loosemore girls woke up that morning to find that a snowman had indeed been constructed in the front yard, but their delight would soon turn to terror. Not only was the snowman crudely made, as if constructed with a lack of care uncharacteristic of their diligent father, but the footprints surrounding it were the wrong size and did not resemble those left by the sturdy winter boots of the constable, which did indeed lead away from the house without coming near the snowman.
The girls deduced that their father must have neglected to keep his promise, perhaps in a rush to begin his shift due to some unforeseen circumstance. Seeing no other explanation, the horrified sisters concluded that the pitiful snowman must have been created by none other than Lucifer himself!
LMFAO 😂😂😂 perfect
As one does no doubt…😅
Did the father not ask the young boy to build the snowman, whilst the father wrnt into the town.
Nah Lucifer would have made a suspiciously creative snowman
Brilliant! 😂😂😂
This channel deserves more recognition, there’s literally not one thing I don’t like about it. Much better than the infographics show or some crap
Infographics show reads the wiki page and makes a feature length film. These fellas do some pretty in depth research, pretty good sourcing (its hard to source a ghost story), and make a hand drawn, excellently animated video for 20-30 mins. Not even a comparison lol these guys win every time. Honestly though, I'm always in search of a good story. They always deliver.
Anything Is better than infographics, but yes, this channel is amazing. I always listen to their stories over and over again when playing video games.
@@republicofaviators4589 dude ive rewatched their ‘all episodes in order’ playlist so many times that i know about 2/3 of this channel by memory. more than my studies lmao.
We as the audience can advertise this channel to our friends, that’s probably the best we can do to give them the recognition they deserve
That part
I've found something similar: One winter day I was at my mother's and I was doing something in the garden and while looking over the stone wall I saw foot prints in the snow on the farm field. That was strange and I'm curious so I decided to investigate, so I walked around to the field and found a trail of hoof prints. I was puzzled by why someone wouldv'e ridden there, expecially in the night or early morning. I followed the hoof prints along my mother's property and strangely it looked as if the creature that had made them was walking on two legs. The "horse" did not walk over things though, it had walked around the stone wall and when reaching the neighbours fence had been stopped, at the fence it had done a sharp u turn, which was too small a turn for something four-legged to make. I have a lot of experience with horses, so I know what prints they usually leave. I guess the most plausible explanation is still a horse, but it's super strange that the tracks appeared to have been made by something on two legs.
It could have been a horse having a laugh at the monkeys running the farm.
me too... see my post
"Given the current sociopolitical landscape, everyone should be using a VPN"
actually more terrifying than any of the stories told on this channel lmao
No mythos either!
Nothing more frightening than living in a Orwellian state
Indeed
@@hansnoor9637 All youtube channels are equal...but some are more equal than others.
Word
I love how, in the midst of the mystery, the Constable asked the boy to build the snowman for his kids. A+ Dad!
Me too!!!
Me, now: "Awesome, new Bedtime Stories!"
Me, at 3 AM trying to sleep: "Why did I watch that?!?"
same!
Yep
You deserve a medal...
Cause that me right now!
I was about to watch it, but then I knew about what the story was😂😂 nope not for me. Let me listen to some fairytale stories 😂
I know right 😂😭😂
Military: It was a weather balloon.
Me: You're really using THAT excuse?
Fixed your title: *There's something living a healthy lifestyle. (The devils cardio pt 1.)*
Cue Van Halen. "Running with the Devil" is actually a song about Satan showing up at your house in a track suit talking about target heart rates.
🤣🤣🤣
@@SuperSaiyanGuyver and the benefit of ketosis
Or..Devil breaks lockdown rules.
Or..Bigfoot pranks remote village with fake "hooves".
Fun fact: in 1855 constables didn't wore the iconic Pith (or Guardian) helmet, they instead wore a tall stovepipe hat. This hat was made rigid and reinforced enough so that a constable could use it as a step in case of a chase to climb over short fences and walls
Imagine one of the windows that the devil deviated his path to visit was yours.
He'd be stopping in for a quick pint and some snuff
this is one of those things I was pondering... what, why? WHOSE windows were they?
Yes. He was actually a very small pony called Robert.
I wish. We'd have a nice long chat and maybe do a little nasty nasty.
*grabs Holy Shotgun*
Constable: “do you want to build a snowman???!”
Boy: “not particularly!”
Constable: “tough.. get to work”
😂
😂😂..."tough boogies" ...lol. ..👍
😅
Or ride our bikes all down the hall?
Constable: “Do you want to build a snowman???!”
Boy: “Not particularly!”
Constable: “Boy. . . I said: do you want to build a snowman?”
Boy: “I guess so, yea.”
Gather round children, gather round. Let us listen together. Wherever you are I hope you are holding up in these strange times. Lucky to be here with you.
I feel you and friend, continue to be safe😎
Let’s hope it stays that way. I’m terrified of this Great Reset I feel like I live in Bazarro World. Stay safe.
@@carriehanifen3434 Reset is the word, don't be afraid Carrie. We are part of this bizarre circus. Easy to say but I don't want to live in fear anymore either. Spend time doing what you love ❤️
@Pantelis Tzimas This is the Way.
@Pantelis Tzimas haha. I thought that was gonna be some corny shit until the end.😂👍
Props to Loosemore for making sure his daughters got their snowman in the middle of a supernatural public disturbance lol
Supernatural? Yh whatever man😂😂
A promise, is a promise. Very glad he upheld it.
Dad goals!
@@punkrock1989 Do you think we truely know everything on earth? We don't know anything.
Exactly@@DrBright5558 people forget (while getting on with their day) we're living on a spinning ball in the middle of the universe!
Whenever you need to cover up a paranormal event, just call it a weather balloon.
Exactly!
Lol, even back then the "balloon" explanation was used! How did this "balloon" go up to doors and windows then abruptly do a left or right turn around the house then continue on from the other side? Pretty precise wind movements to move a "balloon" in that fashion.
@@stephenwedderburn9307 most of the evidence is purely witness testimony. Maybe the balloon simply moved in the direction of the wind, and it appeared to witnesses like it was deliberately even though it was not.
weather balloons literally did not exist at the time
@@ir7358 Hot air balloons however existed at that time. They were using it in the American Civil War.
That mid air badger is hands down the best drawing you guys have had.
i thought it was floating
it is the fabled Badger Orb. A most charming cryptid, but with little recognition by the cryptozoology community. please do your part, and spread awareness of the delightful Badger Orb
not nearly as good as his dick sketches, obviously its not something he shows on this channel but the detail he gives them, you can really tell he puts his heart into it.
So, I know leaving hoof prints isn't how the devil works, but the balloon theory: wouldn't the dangling items have simply made a messy drag mark instead of individual prints? The hanging objects would have had to carefully move up and down to leave anything like what was described.
Good point. I still think it’s plausible but you’re right those marks would have been streaks in the snow instead of distinguishable prints.
It can if the balloon was bobbing up and down as it travelled, but if the trail was as meticulous and methodical as the legend makes it out to be, then probably not. Honestly though, I doubt the validity of a deliberate trail to begin with.
@@gobalbucs All we know for certain is that a large number of people found what they were convinced were footprints of a demon and what has left people baffled.
These were hard agriculture folk. They knew the deference between individual animal species . what tracks they make, the gate they have, the sign left by each of them. They'd know them all intimately well. If they were freaked out it would have been with good reason.
Them there parts of the country, has a long, rich and established history of skullduggery of many types. They wouldn't have called the law to come poking about in their business and land lightly, neither..?
@@Free-Bodge79 We wouldn't where I'm from
Constable got his evidence and was like “yeah this is a job for the priest”😂
I remember reading about this story when I was a kid, it scared the hell out of me and I couldn't sleep.
A book from Scholastic called "Strange, But True."
Because of footprints? Lol
Whoever is the illustrator for these videos. Thank you. Your work is amazing.
I miss you guys whispering "Bedtime Stories" at the end. You can do it before or after the outtakes if you want.
Lol the first time i heard it it scared the sh*t outta me! Cause i listen to these laying in bed trying to get sleepy. Freaked me the f out. Took hrs to get sleepy. I finally got used to it lol
That was iconic
I particularly dont mind if they joke around. Sometimes it's nice to hear a blooper after a scary or disturbing story.
I remember having the crap scared out of me when I read this story as a child. Wish I could find that book again. It was full of unexplained stories like this, and I read it numerous times, fascinated and spooked to the core. I’ve retained that penchant for creepy and unexplainable tales right up until the present, which is probably the reason this channel was recommended to 60-year-old me. Thanks for bringing back some great memories! 😳😃❤
I may have read the same book!
@@normanrenner4648 I bet you did if you’re around my age! It may have been one of those book order books. 🙂
Same here. This story was always one of the scariest to read during my childhood. But the older I get, the more I believe it was just a profound hoax. It wouldn't be hard to apply horseshoes to the bottom of your boots and just walk through the snow, jump over walls and land on the other side. And i feel like a lot of the reports were probably embellished a bit as mass hysteria began to arise.
Now the similar story of the "Devil's footprints," that happened in Quebec Canada, would've been a bit harder to pull off as the hoofprints were found "seared," into the pavement. Not sure how someone would pull that off unless they worked for the road company or something.
@@julieduncan1996 YES!!
I believe the book referred to could be PHENOMENA a book of wonders by John Mitchell and Robert j.m. Rickard first published in 1969. I lost my copy during a residential re-lo in 1980 and acquired a used copy from an online resource in 2023. What a delight reading it and seeing those old photos and illustrations again!
For future videos, can I request the Order of Nine Angles, Dulce Base/underground lizard people, Sawney Bean and the Toronto Tunnel Monster?
Sawney Bean would fit in well here, in fact everything you mentioned would lol but I'd definitely think Sawney's story would make a great episode
Toronto Tunnel Monster is what I'm going to start calling my junk.
Ive never heard any of those so im down for it!!
I had never heard of the ONA, and I regret reading about them after seeing your comment.
Second for Dulce base - alot of material to talk about there.
"Sorry about the silly hat, I've been suffering with lockdown hair at the moment."
*unleashes a glorious pompadour of thick, beautiful hair*
Right? His hair is fantastic!
He must be the only person with lockdown hair. Where I live we have been able to get haircuts since May.
@@dmm3124 its been really hard to get appointments where i am. I ended up cutting my grandmother's hair for her.
@@dmm3124 He's probably not had a haircut since before Christmas as barbers and hairdressers have been shut since early January due to the latest lockdown measures here in England ✂️💈😔
Immanent genetic balding on the horizon: I feel you man.
I remember when I reading this story on the book about mysteries at the library when I was kid. Man this case never leave my memory! :) 😆😁
It certainly is a strange case that's pretty well documented for the time as well, and like you I read about it years ago and it's never left my mind definitely a good head scratcher 🤔🧐
I literally just said the same thing to my wife.
That book is called "Strangely Enough", a scholastic book club offering. I bought mine in the 6th grade I still have it at the age of 62!
Or Wollaton Park gnomes that weird as f*ck story
@@slyaspie4934 Gnomes? As in the mythological earth beings?
I remember that morning
Snow had fallen in the night
Leaving a blanket pristine, and angel white
A single line track could be seen in the ground
Something strange and alien had walked right through the town
And everyone’s door had been visited once.
It even walked up a wall.
100 miles, 100 miles
They followed the track seven days
100 years have come and gone
But the devils hoof marks still remain...
Excerpt from "De Profundis" by ZM
I live on the river Teign, in Devon. I'm pretty sure this is the morning my ex wife went for one of her early morning jogs.... coincidence? I think not 😁
Seriously though, loved this story, even more so because it happened on my doorstep. Devon does have its fair share of mysterious stories, legends and folklore, especially Dartmoor. Cheers 👍
I'm actually dying at this comment ahahahahaha
@@ayeshapyesha7301 I'm glad I made someone giggle today 😂🤣
@@SuperTimreaper honestly I couldn't stop laughing! I'm glad you're free of the devil wife! Haha
Classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is there a generally accepted theory as to what the footprints are in the community? What is it about Dartmoor that lends itself to supernatural events?
I remember reading of these stories when I was a teenager (I’m in my seventies now) and even then I had a fascination with the weird phenomena that you specialise in! Excellently told and very much enjoyed, thank you!
Where are you from Anne?
@@havingafloat I live in Dorset, UK
I recall reading of this decades ago and that it might be one of those stories that started my love of strange events and such things. The distance covered and continuing atop roofs were the things that amazed me. I recall one report of it said that there were records of a trail like this decades before in the same general area but its been years since I read that. Keep up the good work, guys.
I remember reading this and Spring Heeled Jack in some book called "Strange Stories, Amazing Facts" when I was seven. Terrified me.
Yeah we had that book in our family too. It was a volume of Reader's Digest stories I think, and yes there were some pretty creepy stories in it!
Lol ive got that very book!! Reader digest, i used to love reading it as a kid too. Its where i first heard about this story as well.
As a child, I would raid my local library for books on ghosts and the unexplained. I used to terrify myself to death reading them before bed.
Is it dark blue?
"Mysteries of the Unexplained"
The one I have is literally my favorite book and every excerpt from it could be used for an episode of this series
Yes, great, thought-provoking book. I've still got mine after all these years. :-)
I remembered reading about this in our school library as a kid, I was and kind of still am interested in Cryptids and unexplained phenomena like the Devon footprints. These days I’d probably wonder if whatever left those footprints could have had a connection to something like America’s The Jersey Devil?
I actually think the Jersey Devil might be a bird of prey or raptor, like an eagle. Apparently there are colonies of bald eagles living in the Pine Barrens according to Audubon so if we were to look at the number of eagles living in the Pine Barrens recorded by year and compare it to the number of sightings of the Jersey Devil we could find a connection. Of course this is just a theory but to me it makes more sense than the sandhill crane theory.
Cousins i say😂😂
cha5, This does sound similar to the Jersey Devil story where a town resident found weird hoof prints on top of his house.
Springheel Jack perhaps?
cha5- Supposedly, there was a footprint embedded in a large rock near a church in Massachusetts, that is supposed to belong to the Devil.
I read about that one, as well as the Devon footprints in a book, more than 40 years ago.
I can't remember the title, but it was a compilation of strange stories from around the world, particularly the UK and USA.
"Before his children had retired to bed the previous evening, John Loosemore had ALLOWED his children to look out the window at the snow falling outside." Wow, how downright decent of him. Maybe his name should of been 'Loosenupmore".
Back in those days, it was costum for children to always ask permission before doing something.
Lol! Now I get it xD
I've got a few cases you guys can cover in the future:
1. Dulce Base
2. USO's
3. The Bellville, Wisconsin UFO Flap.
4. The Death of Dany Casolaro
5. The Hum
6. Issuk Kur
7. Kapustin Yar
8. The Tehran Incident
9. The Boys on the Tracks
10. The Ozark Howler
11. The Zone of Silence
12. Mount Shasta
@@ceruleanwing4549 I was just thinking about those. There's a lot of strangeness out there.
Mount Shasta has a lot of interesting stories about it.
Also do poltergeist cases. Rock fall cases fascinates me.
After seeing the outro, I suddenly have a desire of writing a scary story about someone entering a house while the occupier has concealed themself in a DIY sound booth.
The only channel that I immediately click, like, and make sure to comment to feed the algorithm. I’ve been here since this was a small channel and am so happy to see you all growing.
One of the few channels I make sure I'm not doing much of anything so I can pay attention to the story and the amazing art. Totally get where you're coming from. :)
Ditto
Check out Mr. BALLEN
@@burtknighten1873 yeah I watch him, he delivers stories in a great way too.
Totally agree, love their work
Read about this in a Strange But True book as a kid. Nice to see it as an official story still being told!
I read an saw other stories on this event....it's mind baffling to say the least...but I never thought I'd hear the old "weather balloon" excuse for the "Devil's Footprints".... 🤔
At least they didn't say basking shark.
How the hell does that even make an excuse? Even the UFO excuse with the weather balloon theory is still more sane than this?!
... the many mysteries and miracles of Jesus, "it was a weather balloon"...
It’s always a weather balloon, right!
When I first read about the footprints, it was said that they went in a single line, about the size of a donkey's hoof print. The prints were on rooftops and had jumped haystacks, etc. I always thought it was Spring Heeled Jack.
I don’t think Spring-heeled Jack ever ventured to Devonshire. I think he was spotted in other parts of England but I don’t believe he ever was spotted in that part of England. Then again its been a long time since I read about Spring-heeled Jack.
Thanks for showing us your studio at the end of the video. I love it when creators show the raw stuff!
I heard a similar story almost 50 years ago when I was a kid, not sure if it was this particular incident or another: strange animal footprints in the snow walking through town into a river or lake. It was later proved that this was a prank perpetrated by two siblings, who had used their father's rhino-foot waste basket to create the prints - it was quite common in "olden days" to make waste baskets and ash trays out of animal feet, like rhinos and elephants.
Still, it makes a good story.
It wasn't Bigfoot this time. It was Littlefoot.
Well played, Sir!
i read about the Widdecombe event in a book called folk tales of Devon when i was a child, ive also visited the church there. its choir stalls had paintings on them, but unfortunately were decaying away with woodworm, this was in the 1960's. i often wonder if they were preserved, I also read about the devils footprints in a Readers digest about the 1960's. Thanks for combining the two stories together, it made the combination more interesting.
Love the bonus behind the scenes view. Do you ever get spooked when recording -- literally scaring yourself with your own story-telling?
"Absolutely essential ingredient of any creative project, which is beer."
If all I did was read spooky stuff all day I'd need one or two as well.
Heard about this way back in primary school (nigh unto 40 years ago). A fair amount of new information here, which is impressive given this story is 166 years old. I'd never heard of the 1638 incident - I like the increased use of animation here - and the attempted explanations do indeed strain credulity. Guess we'll have to wait and see if a better explanation beyond a rogue balloon can be postulated.
Any strange thing that happened in medieval times is creepy and unsettling af.
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Yes indeed. Especially the Green Children of Woolpit story. NightTerrors covered a video on the subject and I speculated the kids could’ve been speaking Basque, which to an average Anglo-Saxon peasant who didn’t really travel outside England would’ve been an alien language. Of course this all depends on if the children were real.
@@mirandagoldstine8548 interesting
I’m really happy you covered this one! I grew up with stories of cryptids, paranormal happenings, and urban legends being told to me by my dad and this was the first one i can distinctly remember him sharing. I forgot about it for the longest time and it’s great to hear a more in-depth telling of it from someone who has kept that tradition and manner of storytelling alive.
Ooh! I’d completely forgotten about this story! I remember reading about it years ago (it all came back once I started listening).
However, it’s a lot creepier actually LISTENING to it, than reading it. And, to make it just that bit more creepy.....I’m at work (nights UK time), and I’ve just had to walk across a dark, open field, with no-one else around, to our laundry and back 🙄
I do love trying to scare myself and thanks to Bedtime Stories, it’s working 😂
Devil: [peeks in my window]
Me: “Well it’s about damn time.”
Can you do stories about The Headless Horseman, True Sightings of Ghosts on Route 66, Ghosts of Gettysburg, and Demonic Demon sightings. Big fan of your channel and keep up the good stories.
Gettysburg, you say.....
@@simonandrews4354 yes sir 🙌👏👌
@@simonandrews4354 Went to Gettysburg for a middle school class trip. I'll never forget barely seeing through the fog only to hear the guide say be quite...2 minutes later you could clearly hear screaming. All 20 of us went running. Absolutely terrifying place i still have nightmares about.
@@thegoldenorder1240 wow i want to go there maybe once in my lifetime
@@thegoldenorder1240 I have heard about the many hauntings of that town. The SpeakEasy, a channel covering ghost stories, has mentioned Gettysburg a few times with an entire video on the town uploaded on the channel. With its blood drenched history as a site of a very bloody Civil War battle I can believe the town’s haunted.
Really nice episode, I love these local stories from the UK.
Thank you for letting us see the inside of your office, that's really cool.
When you settle down to watch Bedtime Stories and realise there is an extra few minutes after the credits have stopped..Pure joy! I just love everything about this channel, it's absolutely brilliant! Thank you so very much for all your hard work! Love and peace from Lancashire! ❤👍
This planet that we live on is such a mysterious place. We can easily interpret natural phenomena with our own superstitions. While mother earth looks back at us and mutters "Dumb asses.."
I remembering reading about this story as a child in a book of stories that were a collection of the supernatural. Quite a number were set in England...
Water seems to attract paranormal attention. England was very marshy, but was drained extensively. It wouldn’t’t be permitted now.
Fun fact apparently the uk has the most paranormal events per square mile then any other countries
@@alfietearall3536 And I thought New England had a wealth of paranormal events, enough to classify the area as its own independent country if you go by supernatural and paranormal accounts.
I have wondered for a long time what you look like. My wife heard me listening to one of your videos and asked if you were the actor who played Willow Ufgood narrating the story! 😅 She was a fan of the movie. You are much younger than I imagined. Keep the stories coming as long as you can. I have watched about thirty episodes. Don't know what I'm going to watch/ listen to at work when I run out😢. Keep up the good work.
I feel sorry for anyone who didn’t stay through the credits
Nice wee backstage treat, his drawer of snacks made me hungry lol
Well, guess I'm not unlucky this time.
Same. It was fascinating to see the office. And the company pet... and the snacks 😃
@@Sienisota Hell yeah, Picnic bars are my drug of choice.
@@NucleaRaptor Picnic bars are quite fulfilling at snack time.
Nice behind the scenes peek.
Kudos to Mikey, I legit thought that picture of a badger running in the snow was a photo for a moment
Oh my God, I was just looking for something to listen to on the way home from work, thank you guys so much!
Who is your god? you don't seem to have any respect, if you have one!
My granny lived in Dawlish, Devon. I visited the places where the footprints went thru Dawlish. My granny told me that apparently, when the footprints were discovered, the farmers' first move was to put their dogs on the trail but the dogs backed away, whining in fear. It was the dogs' reaction that made people think that the source of the footprints was something supernatural, rather than an animal cuz if that was so, the dogs wouldn't have behaved like that.
Satan was just out for a late night walk.
He had a fight with Saddam and needed some space.
Just got into a heated altercation with Hitler. Needed a cigarette break
I remember this ,I read it in a book called mysteries of England or something like that from a little local library in my village on the Norfolk coast, it was a brilliant book,it also told the sightings of spring heeled Jack in the victorian London about a strange man like creature that could jump on roof tops and just disappear.
Oh nice i’m from norfolk to and of cause into the paranormal as well
I've read a story about this when I was much younger. As a matter of fact I still have the book that has one of many stories such as this. I always liked this one.
My Grandfather and my mother spoke of ball lightning. They experienced this often in the countryside outside of Dresden.
They described the phenomenon, this ball of plasma as having a life of its own. It,this ball of electricity showed signs of intelligence or problem solving skills.
OF COURSE bedtime stories had to upload something right as i was heading to sleep.
well, guess ill not sleep today. bc im certainly watching this now.
When I was a kid I read this story in a book Called "Oddities" by Rubert T Gould. In the 90's band called ZM wrote a song about it.
This channel deserves an oscar. You guys are the best!! Does RUclips still give out achievement awards?
@Dick Johnson yes, but can't we make an exception?
"A pack of predatory badgers roaming the counryside"... dude, really? Do you even know what a badger is, ffs? Ooooh, the local worms must be utterly terrified...
I first heard of this story from Blurry Photos and learned more details via NightTerrors. I have wondered if the footprints were those of a goat that somehow managed to get up the roof. One theorist has speculated they were made by a kangaroo as apparently a local noble, a baronet I believe, kept one as a pet and they believed it escaped. To me the footprints are more goat like.
Mountain goats can jump up an a clift side, so it was my thought too. A goat went through the town and didn't bother to go around a home. Why go around when you can go across?
@@toothless3835 Exactly. Great minds think alike. Although it wouldn’t explain why people said it appeared as if the prints were made by a bipedal, cloven hoofed creature. I still say it was a goat. A very determined goat at that.
@@mirandagoldstine8548 The tracks continued more than 100 miles. Express goat?
@@conveyor2 Maybe. Sadly the fact we don’t have any daguerreotypes (early photos) of the tracks makes it hard to confirm if they were made by a goat. Back then photography was still quite young and I don’t think there were any professional photographers living in the area the footprints were spotted. Had they occurred at a later period, say the late 19th century, we might have had a higher chance of any surviving photos with the decreasing cost of cameras.
Also your comment might have made me inwardly chuckle.
Not sure why they didn't assume goat 1st.
This is the kind of story that scares me the most. No one claimed to see a devil man with hooves or any else. Randomly, footprints just appeared in the night and went up to windows and doors.
Suppose I could get scared before bed.
You'll have nightmares then. Not a good idea.
@@kezzabanana4958 I think I have more nightmares when I don't listen to scary stories before I fall asleep.
Loved the after-credits! Really fun to see where the magic is made!
Makes me think of the Devil's Tramping Ground in North Carolina. Lots of great stories about it, but if you think about them (and especially if you visit the place) the easiest solution is people getting wound up over something generally mundane.
As tends to be the case with most legends.
It was probably a large deer, mad cow/horse, or total BS.
@@salliegallegos918 Eh I assume many of these stories are BS, but still makes a good story to think about.
Very enjoyable. I woke up to snow as I looked out my window this morning. Well, me & my huskies are back in bed cozy warm listening to this fascinating story. Thank you so much for this comfort.
It was only yesterday I was thinking that the folks haven't published a story in some time.
Man cmon...Ive been looking all over the internet for a good video about the devils footprints and 3 days later you post this????THATS WHY I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!
Awesome! I've been fascinated by this story since I was a kid.
Military balloon makes the most sense. The snowman story warmed my heart. Love this channel!
I’ve been obsessed with this story lately. It honestly doesn’t make any sense for it to be a distressed animal or a person.
Definitely not if it was going up walls and over houses. With such an old story it's hard to know what parts are true and what has been added over the years.
Could just be a person on some funky stilts. They could have stood still and then used some sticks to mark out more steps in awkward places
@@ShadowPhoenixMaximus Could you imagine walking on stilts for 100 miles in the dead of winter a night and then jumping 12 feet in the air to land on a strangers roof. IDK....
@@IvanOoze1990 Could have more than one person, all they'd have to do in follow along each others footsteps
Could be a goat. Goats are known to walk onto roof and depending on if there was a thick layer of ice and how high the snow was that could be the most likely explanation.
The badger drawing was so unexpectedly cute. 😍
Ball lighting be like: Allow me to introduce myself
It's always so amusing to me when people call the police for some event they think is supernatural. What exactly do they expect the police to do?
I'd heard both of these stories before, but you told them well and the animation is as always excellent.
Send for Carnacki
This story has always terrified me.
I bought four copies of volume one of bedtime stories. Thank you so much.
@Bedtime Stories
Have you guys ever heard of a crazy little island off the coast of Texas Called Galveston
It’s got ghosts, the Civil War, monsters, mobsters and pirates
Ooh, this I know about, and honestly, a video about these would be nice.
I’d want to see that!
@@osakarose5612 I'll check them out.
Yeah been their multiple times, it’s a nice getaway for southern Texas folks like myself.
Episode suggestion, and a related one at that: The Red Book of Appin. Allegedly stolen from the devil by a Scottish boy, and possessing knowledge of magic and medicine.
This is legit one my favorite stories that I remember as a kid! Awesome!
Finally! I have been waiting for them to cover this story, especially since it happened in the U.K., where this show comes from. I Love this podcast, it's always very well done.
First time I knew of outtakes after the credits. definitely gonna have to stick around more often. awesome story as usual, keep it up my dudes, for as long as you can.
"Badgers??! We don't need no stinking badgers!!"
Shout out from Manchester, so yeah they're crisps not chips 👍
This reminds me of this one time when it snowed in our small Oklahoma town. Me and my cousin had gone out to play and in our backyard and there next to a tree we're some hoof tracks, they stopped at a tree, but they also just started in the middle of the yard. It was odd because they just started out of nowhere and just ended at this tree, still sticks in my mind.
Nice, this and Beyond Creepy make new releases on the same day. Right when I was about to watch a vampire film too.
What film? The Hammer horror film? The classic Dracula? Nosferatu? Interviews with a Vampire?
And Nexpo.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Or maybe Blackula the 1972 film about......a black Dracula!
@@uhtred7860 ...Hmm, heard of this blaxploitation flick, but I don't have the mindset to watch it.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Maybe Blackenstein, a 73 film about........a black Frankenstein monster is more to your liking? :-))
thank you for the tour of your studio. your vocals and audio are very unique - many other youtube story tellers cant match its quality.
Oh this kinda hits harder when its like an hour away from where I live..
I first read this story in a Readers Digest in about the 80s. I like the idea of an escaped kangeroo being on the rampage, a kangeroo that jumps on to the roofs of houses and has feet like a horse. 🤣😂
I like the top secret balloon theory, makes more sense than "Its the devil!". And the light in the church was most likely a phenomenon known as ball lightning, which usually doesnt hurt people, but not much is known about its properties.
Yep. I think the balloon is the most likely answer, depending on exactly how strong those winter winds were that night. I wonder if there are any meteorological records from that period of time that have survived. If we had access to those records and calculated how much the shackles weighed plus how securely fastened the balloon was to the area we could, within a good percentage, confirm if this theory is indeed the correct theory or at the very least plausible.
Only issue I see with the balloon theory is the way the tracks in the snow were laid out in regular intervals instead of being continuous trails one would expect a balloon to leave behind if it was dragging things., and how the tracks allegedly circled around some houses as if something were looking in windows. I will admit that without more evidence than claims and sketches, the tracks could've been less regular. People seeing strange marks in the snow could easily decide on a fantastic origin.
The shackles from a balloon wouldnt travel through a village without waking people up or damaging windows or buildings, definitely not a balloon.
@@ladyshep I don't think it was the balloon either, it was more likely to me given the data provided, that it was prolly a goat or something double stepping it's tracks.
@@ladyshep True. Well then it could always be a goat. The drawings make the prints seem very goatish. I wish we had daguerreotypes of the footprints. Then we could have a forensic expert look at them and determine what animal made them.
The devil came down to devon sounds like an awesome sequel to the devil came down to georgia
Future episodes concerning Victorian England, eh? Me suspects we'll be saying hello to both Spring Heel Jack and Jack the Ripper..
At least the latter is a man. The former...eludes us.
Seems as if I recall a Spring Heel episode a while back.
@@k.b.tidwell I thought it was Jack the Ripper?
@@mandaloretheultimate3691 you are correct because in searching through my history I found that apparently I had seen the video on another channel (Thoughty2). I would LOVE to see the Bedtime Stories take on ol'Jack though.
@@k.b.tidwell That would be awesome to see them cover Spring-heeled Jack who actually is mentioned in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate alongside Jack the Ripper.