The Devil's Footprints
The Devil's footprints are strange markings that have been spotted all over the world, the first known sighting in 1840 when Captain James Clark Ross found them in Antarctica.
"It's rarely a good omen," notes famed British paranormal researcher Carl Duckland. "They were discovered following a blizzard outside Stalingrad in 1943 during the bloodiest of World War II."
"Whenever the Devil's footprints are seen, great evil is afoot."
World's Most Famous Devil's Footprint Case:
After a dense snowfall on Feb. 8, 1855, the people of Devonshire, England, awoke to find a trail of strange, cloven-hoofed footprints that meandered for miles throughout the area.
"Considerable sensation has been evoked in the towns of Topshm, Lympstone, Exmouth, Teignmouth and Dawlish, in the south of Devon, in consequence of the discovery of a vast number of foot-tracks of a most strange and mysterious description," The Times of London reported at the time. "The superstitious go so far as to believe that they are the marks of Satan himself."
The tracks appeared to be those of a creature that walked on it's hind legs.
And most puzzling, they were found in all kinds of inaccessible places - such as on the roofs of houses and in gardens and courtyards enclosed by high walls.
"The creature seems to have approached the doors of several houses and then to have retreated," the newspaper reported.
"At present it remains a mystery, and many superstitious people in the above towns are actually afraid to go outside their doors at night."
One local minister, the Rev. Mr. Musgrave, tried to quell panic by suggesting in his Sunday sermon that the footprints were only those of a kangaroo, but animal experts soon dismissed that possibility.
The mystery, was never solved.
