The Devil’s Footprints: England’s 1855 Mystery That Defied Logic

In February 1855, a heavy snowfall revealed something impossible across southern England: a single trail of hoof-like footprints stretching for more than forty miles. The tracks crossed rivers, climbed walls, appeared on rooftops, and entered locked gardens without explanation. Calmly documented by Victorian newspapers and witnessed by clergy, magistrates, and entire villages, the Devil’s Footprints remain one of history’s most unsettling unsolved mysteries. In this episode of The Strange History Podcast, we examine what the newspapers actually reported, why the explanations fail, and what may have walked through England one snowy night — leaving only questions behind.

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