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[SPEAKER_03]: As I stated before, this case has kind of always stood out to me as just a case of general high-strangeness and it's old.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's an old case.
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember reading about it in library books when I was young and I always kind of just stood out in my brain.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to drawbacks and memories for you that you're going to have some flashbacks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of forgot about it until I was, I want to be a hundred percent transparent with the cold out here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of have a little writers block, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: We all get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It all happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, man, I'm just going to start looking through some of my paranormal books.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been saying them out of them and I stumbled across this and I was like, yeah, we're going to do this this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this week's case is the case of the Devil's Footprint, which again is an old one.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's also in takes place in England.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you guys get to hear me butcher a bunch of English town names, which I will hear about in the chat.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I might remember this one too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious to see if I remember it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's no explanation for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's how we like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no, there's no solution.
[SPEAKER_03]: People tried to solve it, but lame.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's funny how modern life is still like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: No solution.
[SPEAKER_01]: No explanation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just lame.
[SPEAKER_03]: So again,
[SPEAKER_03]: Today's case is an old one over a hundred and seventy five years to be exact.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, that is old.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it's one I've heard time and time again throughout the annals of the paranormal world.
[SPEAKER_03]: As I stated before, I remember seeing it in books as far back as I can remember reading into the paranormal, so I decided to deep dive into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The fact that it's still held up.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's mystery close to hundred and seventy five years later.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of speaks to its weirdness.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm gonna paint a picture for you all.
[SPEAKER_03]: A digital picture that you can play out in your mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a cold February morning in the X-Meth country side of Southwest England.
[SPEAKER_03]: Women children and elderly are all hiding in their homes.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have their doors boarded up like barricaded.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're peering out through their windows as if they're hiding from something, which they are, but they don't quite know what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Outside all able-bodied men and boys are traipsing through the snow-covered fields and roads, carrying anything they can get their hands on as a weapon.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pitchworks, hammers, pistols, flails, shotguns, muskets, clubs, anything that they can find to protect themselves with.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's basically a hunting party.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me that wouldn't be exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still, not that I really want to live back then because it probably sucked.
[SPEAKER_01]: But partaking in something like that would be kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The adrenaline's going.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're scared, but the same time you're like, I'm, I'm here with the homies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to fuck this thing up, dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to beat this thing's ass.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got my my pitch fork and you got damn torch torch torch.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: It reminds me a lot of the van meter visitor episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, listen to that yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: They they go out after theirs, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just straight up mob mentality.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, you're still picturing it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the women, children and old, oldsters are hiding out.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't want any part of what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: The men are circling back and forth through the through thick snow, looking behind bushes and ditches and behind hedges and old outbuildings, anywhere something can hide throughout the farms, the orchards and the cemeteries.
[SPEAKER_03]: All they know is that something had visited their town the night before.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were glimpses of a creature
[SPEAKER_03]: But nothing substantial.
[SPEAKER_03]: About twenty percent of the men were looking for an unknown creature about the size of a donkey.
[SPEAKER_03]: They knew something was out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something had been walking around.
[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't sure what it was.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rest of the men were looking for the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: So hat.
[SPEAKER_01]: So some people were convinced it was just a donkey.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll understand why.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you have to consider the time period.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the eighteen fifties, so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Easy to get.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you think about it, donkeys do have a very demonic presence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Way they laugh sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Creepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm sure you're all wondering why everyone in this series of small towns around the Devonshire countryside suddenly became terrified of Satan.
[SPEAKER_03]: So much so that they barricaded themselves behind closed doors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Satan or donkeys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the rest were arms to the, oh, it gets better.
[SPEAKER_03]: The theories are, it's way better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rest were armed to the teeth and looking for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Although I'm not sure exactly what they thought they would do if they found the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit it with a torch.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's I mean, I don't he's already kind of cool with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: According to like Christian Laurie lives he lives in fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, when you hit him, the torch is going to hurt.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I guess that's better than he stabbed to the pitch for.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess that will carry the pitch for sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So true.
[SPEAKER_03]: He made, he, this, this may be a sizeable battle here, size up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it was obvious to him, or obvious to the hunting party that he was close at hand because of a set of tracks of clearly cloven footprints that had been left for miles throughout the freshly fallen snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's a large geographical area where people started finding these footprints.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to start out in on the northernmost part of the track path, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could call it an town of Thompson.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the people here weren't necessarily like superstitious or really like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: easy to give into mass hysteria.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were all just kind of hardworking salt of the earth people, but they clearly been startled by this phenomenon and it's held its mystery for over a century.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to jump into the case.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the night of February seventh, an exceptionally heavy snow falling Gulf the coastal area in the southern part of the country.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was reported to snow for hours from about eight PM till about twelve AM.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you have a four, keep that in mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a four hour window of snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: because the tracks that are found are in this snowstorm.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you have a very little time period for these tracks to be created, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because if you figure if it started, like say the first inch of snow fell and it made these tracks, it would be covered by the rest of the snow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So how bad was this snowstorm?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did they ever elaborate on that?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: They said it was pretty substantial though, and it was about a four hour time period.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you could think it couldn't snow a whole lot in four hours, but probably pretty decent.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was reported that it's snowed for about four hours from eight p.m.
[SPEAKER_03]: to twelve a.m.
[SPEAKER_03]: in the bad weather pretty much kept everyone inside trying to stay warm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Around six a.m.
[SPEAKER_03]: the next morning, a man by the name of Henry Pilk, the town baker, emerged from his backyard Baycast in the small town of Thompson.
[SPEAKER_03]: As he looked out through the yard, he saw that the yard in the street and the fields around him were covered with a pristine blanket of snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's quoted to say that it looked like a fresh bed sheet had been laid across the ground, except for one thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: A line of the most peculiar tracks that Mr. Pilk had ever seen.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said, each track resembled a small horseshoe.
[SPEAKER_03]: And at first, he thought maybe they had been made by a pony.
[SPEAKER_03]: But then as he took a closer look at the tracks and the way they presented themselves, each print and a line, each one in front of another, it resembled the gate of a two-legged creature as opposed to the tracks left by a four-legged creature.
[SPEAKER_03]: He noted that the print seemed to start at his wooden fence, which led him to his yard, which was six feet high.
[SPEAKER_03]: And approached close to his bay cows, almost as if examining the structure, and then it veered back toward the fence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Pilk, being an OG, realized that he had worked to do, and just made a mental note of the tracks, and set back to the bay cows to start his work then.
[SPEAKER_01]: My man.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: He cannot deal with the devil right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: or a rogue donkey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ain't shit changed either.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, he's got bread to bake.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's muffins to be made.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's shit to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like muffins.
[SPEAKER_03]: Need to wish I had one right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't too concerned with the tracks or what?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hellish creature possibly could have made them.
[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't even bother to look over the fence to see if the track started prior to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He really just couldn't be bothered by what was in his yard the night before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was until an hour later.
[SPEAKER_03]: When the town's schoolteacher, Albert Brailford, knocked on his door with some other local town folk, the group had noticed the strange prints and the street and followed them to Henry's yard.
[SPEAKER_03]: He immediately garnered a little more interest in joining the group and looking to see what had created these strange tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: The group rapidly swelled in size as more and more town folk noticed the strange line of tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Soon, housewives, schoolchildren, tradesmen, apprentices, farmers, shopkeepers, all were joining in as they found more and more evidence of this strange creature walking through their town.
[SPEAKER_03]: Soon it became evident as more and more people called out, with signs of the hoof marks that whatever had made the tracks had visited almost every single home in town.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could definitely see like an animal explanation if it's a straight line path.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some little subtle variances here and there, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're wandering around.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the fact that a visited every single structure is weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every single home along the main street or a singular set of odd tracks, investigating every single home along main street and those adjacent streets.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what the town now abuzz, more and more people came forward with their sightings of the strange tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was clear that the town had been visited by something.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it peaked its interest enough to check out every single home in town.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they started to realize another peculiarity, I can't say that word.
[SPEAKER_03]: I write it and I can't say it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Mr. Pilk had missed while not examining his fence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever this creature was, for all intents and purposes, could walk through walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: For some of the gardens in town that the tracks that invaded were secured with twelfth foot high, tall stone walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: God damn, baby, we'll got castle walls built around there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want people getting in their gardens.
[SPEAKER_03]: Geez, they took that serious.
[SPEAKER_03]: The gates to the said garden where the tracks were shown were locked and not tampered with.
[SPEAKER_03]: And upon investigation, the snow on the top walls of the garden
[SPEAKER_03]: was also understood.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this one I'm talking about like that's that's some serious investigation right there because I wouldn't know if I don't know that I would have had it in me to think about getting up at the top of the wall and see if there was stuff up there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think once they once they notice the tracks go to the wall and then once they are like man, the gates not open, so that's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then when they got into the garden and they saw that the tracks continued and did the same at the other wall, they're like, okay, this is us.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I feel like most people would just be lazy and be like, it probably jumped over the wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's a good jump.
[SPEAKER_01]: I realized that, however, I just don't feel, or maybe they, I think no matter what, whether it's jump over the wall or climbed over the wall, most people would just run on an assumption.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, unless there was enough significant snow, you could see like the snow humped up on the top of the wall and it not sure messed with.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure, which would probably like Garner further investigation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I still I'll still stay like how fun it would be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about having your whole town involved in like a paranormal mystery.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fucking rad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm here for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a blast.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, essentially walked directly through this wall, which is weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_03]: And not his thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: A donkey can do.
[SPEAKER_03]: on any donkeys that I've met.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're all pretty special.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's almost as if no obstacles at all were in this thing's way.
[SPEAKER_03]: The searcher started to coordinate their efforts and confirmed that the tracks had in fact visited every home in town.
[SPEAKER_03]: The trail ran mostly along the ground, but sometimes they were seen, it was seen on the roof of some of the houses in town, as well as over wagons and other things that were in its path.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which is weird to me that it would walk through this wall
[SPEAKER_03]: but it would walk on the roof of some houses.
[SPEAKER_03]: It would be strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: It also makes me wonder if it could walk through the stone wall that it walked through house walls too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody noticed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he would think that someone in town would have seen something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would have seen something, but furthermore, somebody would have heard something walking on their roof.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna assume that back then they didn't have fans that they ran and white noise machines.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like somebody would have woke up here and thumps on the roof.
[SPEAKER_03]: The devil, Eradunky.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Walking on your roof.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely feel like they would have woke up.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not everybody because some of us sleep like logs, but somebody definitely would have.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tracks never varied or faltered or even doubled back.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just went on undisturbed, patching, passing each point just once, zig-zagging right and left, as if the wander had made it his intention to peer into every house along this route.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the group of towns member members of Topsons were tracing the tracks through their streets, the people of multiple other town, the people of multiple other towns along Devon Coast were doing the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: As they would come to find out, the singular line of tracks went for almost a hundred miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good trick.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a lot of ground to cover in the amount of time that it was snowing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you have to figure the snow had already been done falling, so you figure it.
[SPEAKER_03]: midnight to six.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's six hours to travel a hundred miles on hoof.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know the math on that, but I'm going to assume.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like that's got to be moving pretty quickly.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to be moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: So tops and was situated in the estuary of the x river marked the northern part of the devil's tramping ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: The town of I'm going to butcher this top.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totteness, T-O-T-N-E-S, or English friends, please correct me, is about ninety-seven miles down the coast to mark the southern extreme.
[SPEAKER_03]: Between those points, virtually every town in village along the coast, and yes, even single farmsteads, I woke to find the trail of hoof marks on their doorsteps and roofs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go with a bunch of English town names that I'm going to butcher.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got this.
[SPEAKER_03]: From the towns of Torque, to Newton, to Tainmouth, to Luscom, to Dollish, to Powder Room, and over a dozen other places had been visited by the Night Wanderer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Farmers found them on solitary haystacks, priests found them in their church yards and cemeteries.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rich folk found them on the front steps of their mansions.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were found along lonely stretches of beach.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were followed through uninhabited acres of woods on main streets and market squares.
[SPEAKER_03]: They had just traveled the entire length of the coast.
[SPEAKER_03]: They had been made the night before as there had been no snow in the ground prior to that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, it had only snowed from eight PM until twelve AM.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the timeframe was a short one.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, no one in the area could remember either seeing or hearing anything that might give clue as to what created the Prince.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the hours pass, the sightings just grew stranger and stranger.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the town called Mamhead.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably different, Mammead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Motorhead.
[SPEAKER_03]: The local doctor named Benson followed a line of prints across an open field right up to an eighteen foot tall high haystack, which was blanketed with the fresh coat of snow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's make the haystack, eighteen vi.
[SPEAKER_03]: The people of motorhead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, that actually makes sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nevermind, I think, corrected.
[SPEAKER_03]: the the snow the blanket of snow on top of the stack was undisturbed but the tracks continued on the other side as if whatever this creature was either walked directly through the haystack are just stepped completely over it so weird which is awesome it's so weird because you couldn't you could even argue multiple animals
[SPEAKER_01]: But still, there's so many anomalies right off the rib, the fact that it's one singular line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Never does it backtrack on itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: It almost in a puzzle fashion, because if you think about it, it's like a puzzle strategically being able to hit every house without backtracking is bananas.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like it has a purpose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then it the line doesn't break.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're here with funny, you said that because we're right here at this, this interesting point in this story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So in the same town, motorhead, two hundred spent hours tracking these tracks through thick, thorn, thorny gooseberry bushes and through dense hedges.
[SPEAKER_03]: The men being hunters and trackers started looking through the thorns to see if there were any toughs of hair hung up in them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, animal would be there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also also interesting enough that local hunters and trackers found the tracks interesting enough to dedicate time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, to follow.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that could be said for everyone because like you have to consider the time period there in eighteen fifties.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody's job like the town is dependent on everybody's job.
[SPEAKER_03]: So for them to take a whole day off from doing from blacksmithing, from baking, from from doing all this stuff like could set them back significantly, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because everybody's job is important to the well-being of the town.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like the majority of them would probably know what a donkey track looks like.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just saying, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly, but they didn't find any hair hung up in any of the thorn bushes, which is... I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm natural.
[SPEAKER_03]: No evidence that a creature had been there except for the strange tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it gets weirder here as Kyle had just brought up.
[SPEAKER_03]: After exiting the hedgerow, the tracks disappeared.
[SPEAKER_03]: Almost as if the creature had flew off, or had been picked up off the earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: But only for about a half a mile, because as the hunters exited the hedger, I would notice that the tracks stopped, he noticed people on the edge of town just a half a mile away out looking at their roofs.
[SPEAKER_03]: When they went over there, they found that the hoof marks had restarted on the roof of the nearest cottage, and continued on the ground and up and over other cottages until it reached the main street of motorhead, where it continued to check the houses
[SPEAKER_01]: a each house of the town, which legitimately suggested it can fly, essentially, which I means, which then makes, makes a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it also makes it more sense as far as getting over to a full wall, getting over the hay bales, getting on top of the houses.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unless it took one big step.
[SPEAKER_03]: Half a mile to the other.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which I want to think about that happening in my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, yeah, so the way that would break down is that for ninety percent of the journey is essentially tiptoeing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then it comes to obstacles and it's like, well, take a real real step here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a thousand feet tall, but it's just, yeah, just looking on it's little, little tiptoeing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's as if nothing could stop whatever was creating the tracks between the towns of powderam and limp stone lay the x river estuary, which was good, which then the town of limp biscuit lay the x river estuary, which is unfrozen at the time, and almost two miles wide at said point where the tracks went down the bank.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yet the creature seemingly walked up to the western bank and the tracks continued on exactly on the opposite side of the eastern shore.
[SPEAKER_03]: As if it had swam or stepped over or simply walked on the water across the two mile wide river.
[SPEAKER_03]: The same thing happened at ten mouth, as you wear a six miles further south, where the tracks lead directly into the water and continued on the opposite side.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that not only is the just the town involved, it's like all the towns are involved.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, which means just by sheer numbers, pure number value,
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone, I'm willing to bet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone in that bitch knows what animal tracks I look like.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just peer luck, peer numbers, somebody is going to know if that's an animal or not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the fact that not one town, not two towns, all the towns are invested in this anomaly speaks volumes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's that is bizarre.
[SPEAKER_03]: I found one report of someone following the tracks up to a drainage pipe where it looked as if the creature walked into the drainage pipe and then out the other side because the twelve foot length of the drainage pipe
[SPEAKER_03]: was covered in ground that was covered in fresh snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the track went into the drainage pipe and out the other side where this thing did not walk over it, obviously.
[SPEAKER_03]: The kicker is that the drainage pipe was only four inches in diameter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it can shape shift now from being a thousand feet tall to four inches tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is, I hope he was just listening to riff-rath.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tip tone of my Jordan's.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope that it was just Jordan, friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: As Kyle said, the prints were easy enough to follow.
[SPEAKER_03]: As they didn't resemble any other tracks or markings left in the snow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did we know if the prints would stay at relatively the same size?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're getting there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't resemble any other tracks or markings left in the snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even towns people that had no extensive knowledge of wildlife or any tracking background had no problem distinguishing them from other prints such as birds or rabbits or mice in the snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like these were definitely something different.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tracks stuck out so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are illustrations of the hoof marks that were made by hundreds of people on the record today.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can still look up the illustrations.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: tons of people saw this and had the wherewithal to draw them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Considering, I feel like that's strange that that many people would be compelled to draw them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it just kind of leads credence to how weird the scenario.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you go outside and you see a bear print, you're not going to be like, oh damn, there's a bear print.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm drawing it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, go out.
[SPEAKER_03]: See, and you see the devil's foot print, you're like, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's somebody in town doing some fuckery.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the tracks definitely resembled those of a shoe donkey.
[SPEAKER_03]: But different in the fact that they were more elongated than a regular like horse or donkey shoe.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were convex and measured four inches long by two and a half inches wide.
[SPEAKER_03]: So still, I mean, that's probably about the size of a regular horseshoe, only like stretched, stretched out, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I feel like that's pretty close.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe a little bit smaller.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were unnaturally uniform.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of them were exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've read accounts where they said they are spaced exactly the same amount apart from one another throughout the entire length of the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like where there's one track, the next one would be eight inches ahead of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then eight inches ahead of that, another track.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like that forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: which would almost be statistically impossible for an animal to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a human.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because eventually you're going to change your gate because of obstacles or whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's exactly what I wrote down.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The one thing all accounts stand by is that the strides were uniform and they didn't change based on obstacles in the path.
[SPEAKER_03]: Be it on level ground, through thick thorn bushes, on rooftops, it was always the same stride, which animals and humans vary their strides depending on their surfaces they're walking on and things they're stepping over.
[SPEAKER_03]: The continuous straight line of prints were also an oddity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Basically, every quadruped moves by placing its feet right and left, leaving very distinct double tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even bipeds like birds and humans don't place one foot directly in front of the other unless they're walking a tight rope or doing a sobriety test.
[SPEAKER_03]: which seems exactly like what this creature was doing, walking a tight road because they were perfectly placed one in front of the other.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost as if it was like following a predetermined path to check every house along the coastline.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the day went on, the tracks began to kind of succumb to the weather a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: The sun came up, they started melting.
[SPEAKER_03]: They call it track blurring and the snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like when the snow begins to melt and it starts to blow, the wind a little bit, the tracks change before they disappear.
[SPEAKER_03]: As people are finding the tracks later in the day, they begin to notice that the tracks were less uniform and shape and almost took the resemblance of a clothing foot.
[SPEAKER_03]: which is where the devil comes in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, and at the time, of course, eighteen fifties, the only bipedal creature, the Boricloven foot that could walk through walls and step over rivers and giant haystacks, obviously, with Satan.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, obviously, is obviously Satan.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's where you gotta go with.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely, I definitely see why they came to that conclusion now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you got a two-footed ho offer walking around, it's the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no way of fans are about to about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: Flying, walking through walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: Changing himself to tiny so we can walk through sewer pipes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we all know how small town culture works, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: So news began to spread that it was the devil himself that it made his way down the Devon Coast side.
[SPEAKER_03]: It spread from town to town that he had made his way to each home presumably
[SPEAKER_03]: marking future victims.
[SPEAKER_03]: This obviously changed the entire dynamic of the encounter, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody who was outside chasing the tracks now, all of a sudden thought, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is not what we wanted to be after right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: My name ain't fixing to be on that list.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: The men did what men do and said, hey, ladies.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gather up all the oldies.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gather up all the little kids, get inside, barricade the doors, barricade it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't open it until we get back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the, the fuckin' mentality, like the mental image I'm having right now.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just the, the women just being like, you cannot do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You cannot go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, for you, I will fight the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: With.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will kill the devil with Gary.
[SPEAKER_03]: My, pitchfork.
[SPEAKER_03]: With my pitchfork, I will protect you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Gary has a torch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gary does have a torch.
[SPEAKER_01]: He, are gonna fuck the devil up.
[SPEAKER_03]: and Ralph has an old twig he pulled off the tree out in the front yard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just do that just I just see some nostalgic man standing out for it going today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am going to kill the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it got crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every able bodied man and boy weaponed up in search for the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking hundreds
[SPEAKER_03]: of able-bodied volunteers along the coast, arm themselves as best they could, even with tracking dogs to try to track down the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hundred mile mob.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hundred mile mob.
[SPEAKER_03]: It got so bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: The two battalions of the British Army's royal fuselures made their way to two towns and patrolled the streets for a few nights.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't fuck with the devil, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But something was strange enough that they, they felt obligated to come check this out.
[SPEAKER_03]: People were that much out of stir and worried that we didn't have social media back then either.
[SPEAKER_01]: So think about how like quick news traveled with this encounter.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was worth a mouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's from Ray's Coast.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a little bit of coming in the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was almost one fatality due to the the hysteria of this of the situation.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a man by the name of Daniel Plummer, who according to reports was quote, a harmless imbosal and bigger.
[SPEAKER_03]: He thought that it would be a good idea to dawn a bunch of chicken and goose feathers.
[SPEAKER_03]: just glue them to himself and run around the forest while everybody was out looking for the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which everybody in his town of Woodbury knew Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're like, oh, this is a very Daniel thing to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, mobs from other towns had made it to Woodbury.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't know Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they didn't know Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they see crazy chicken man running around in the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they almost beat him to death.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like socks, but it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's getting beaten by people with clubs and pitchforks and torches and torches and flails and anything you can think of.
[SPEAKER_03]: Luckily, the town free sauce going on is like, hey, don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the annual.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's just, that's just Danny, the dummy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they locked Danny up for the rest of the night.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're like, I'm gonna go sit in the drunk tank.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rightfully so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take your chicken suit off.
[SPEAKER_01]: I fucking, that is the best part of the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the, I don't know what he was saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel the chicken man.
[SPEAKER_03]: They call him Daphne Danny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Daphne, I'm assuming means not that intelligent.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just don't dumb ass Danny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So as the tracks begin to disappear, the rumors about the tracks start to get more and more bizarre.
[SPEAKER_03]: So people are starting either to embellish what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're rising or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people said they saw the tracks glowing red like hot coals like they were on fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Other reports hearing devilish laughter echoing throughout the towns in the fields in the forest.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now we're just straight up devil paranoia.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are in
[SPEAKER_03]: The demon realm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: People came forward saying they saw a gigantic horn shadow looming over powdered them castle.
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some said they witnessed the tracks that disappear before their eyes only to reappear as soon as they put their gaze away from them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they'd look at them.
[SPEAKER_03]: They disappear turn back.
[SPEAKER_03]: They reappear.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then they were able to be found.
[SPEAKER_03]: Very paranormal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the ghost in Mario.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You look at him and he stops and you turn around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoves.
[SPEAKER_03]: So obviously there were a ton of illustrations of the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: So a bunch of naturalists were brought in and biologists to look at the illustrations to determine if there were any creatures that could be a natural cause of the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: They listed literally everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything you could think of.
[SPEAKER_01]: The experts weren't very good at exporting.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you have your first stuff, which is like a horse or a donkey, because it's got donkey-esque, more tracks, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then they're like, or it could have been a fox.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's when I would have said a deer, which a deer's that's not a horse track, but kind of close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but not close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Generally there's way smaller.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but they got freaks in nature.
[SPEAKER_01]: Royad Rage Dears a badger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what I'm going to assume that the people don't shoe badgers.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be the worst job in the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: To have to shoe a badger.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if they're doing that in England in the eighteen fifties, you need to rethink.
[SPEAKER_01]: You deserve to be visited by the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bevers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: They really have, don't bevers have to bevers have web feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, they have big tails or shoes, which, which that's another thing that there was no, there was no evidence of a tail dragging through the snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no tails.
[SPEAKER_03]: A tail is beaver.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's because he had his tail lifted.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't want to see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't want to see it cold.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's understandable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, mice hooked mice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone said, uh, a bird because that would account for it making its way up onto the roofs and stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Burjums.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're dumb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just have really steeped way of thinking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love how they analyze one tiny fragment of the entire story and they're like, it's a bird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because how else?
[SPEAKER_01]: Guys, how else does it get from the ground to a roof?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has to fly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then then somebody's like, well, okay, yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, but we have hoved tracks in a straight line for a hundred miles.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean,
[SPEAKER_01]: Logically speaking here.
[SPEAKER_01]: How does how does the bird play in again?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I'm lost because it's a bird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Easy.
[SPEAKER_01]: They got we had an animal expert here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, it gets better because obviously those were too far-fetched.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they move on to giant leaping rats.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a common thing back then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hopping on one foot one after.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, they did not say that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopping on one foot.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's only one track at a time.
[SPEAKER_03]: How else would a hop?
[SPEAKER_03]: Gargantuan rabbits jumping in a path for a hundred miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I talked about bears earlier, but this was also something that was brought up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perhaps it was a bear walking upright along the coast for a hundred miles.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, now I think about it real quick, when it comes to the mega rabbits.
[SPEAKER_01]: The rabbits, they used the wrong terminology.
[SPEAKER_01]: The rabbits wouldn't be hopping.
[SPEAKER_01]: They would be skipping.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have mega skipping rabbits.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So up white, up white walking bears.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone suggested that they check local circuses for escaped elephants.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: An elephant, track.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hoved.
[SPEAKER_03]: Clove and shoot elephant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I retract my statement from earlier about one of these people would know animal tracks because obviously they do not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Possible migrant penguins.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they?
[SPEAKER_03]: Penguins in the England and the UK.
[SPEAKER_01]: All they want is snows.
[SPEAKER_03]: It did snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And all fairness it did snow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone even suggested an undersized extinct bison that hadn't been seen since the Middle Ages.
[SPEAKER_03]: Had decided to make its way back.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you know about that bison, but you don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: that mice don't wear essentially horseshoes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not saying these all came from the same person.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not either.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying their best.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is definitely not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone also came forward and said possibly maybe it was an escaped kangaroo from a traveling circus.
[SPEAKER_03]: But kangaroos don't walk in perfect straight lines.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they do a lot of hopping.
[SPEAKER_03]: They also have a massive tail that's always part of their movement.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they don't have hooves.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people that long ago were just weren't that intelligent.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did try to fight the devil though.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did have a lot of gumption.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, uh, yeah, we got, that's, that's a theory.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously we got our paranormal theory here that the devils, hoof prints came from Satan himself that crossed the actual, uh, whole coast there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, yeah, obviously it's Satan.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like some of the clergy even played into it, what you knew they were going to.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was going to be some kind of warning or an omen tied to like the regional moral decline or, you know, a town not paying enough tides and shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, biologists suggest hopping rodents.
[SPEAKER_03]: such as mice, but that doesn't explain how they hop themselves onto a roof over a twelfth, but wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hoax, obviously.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could humans do this way too much dedication?
[SPEAKER_03]: They said pranksters using wooden cloven stampers on a pole.
[SPEAKER_03]: which is impressive considering it went ninety seven miles and there was never any sign and a jump forever to like big ass rivers yeah there's never any sign that a human touched the ground anywhere near any of the tracks so people are like well maybe it was a whole band of people a whole band of tricksters and pranksters doing this which I mean is it possible
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, is it plausible?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as we get closer to like nowadays, people are like, well, maybe it was an atmospheric or weather phenomena.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone said freezing rain, combined with melting snow caused falling debris, thoughts, no clumps that punched, hoof like holes in the floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're not necessarily, but exactly whatever distance apart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is how weather anomalies work.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a very precise numerically.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the kind of my favorite theory, one of my more favorite earth theories, is that it was an experimental helium balloon that someone had tethered something to to keep it way down, but it wouldn't weigh down enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it just kept bouncing along.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: For a hundred miles, also visiting every home in every town, all along the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get a effort on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is, that's, that's thinking outside the box.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's about as far as I'm going to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So to this day, we still don't know what caused the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's still just a big mystery as it was in eighteen, fifty five.
[SPEAKER_03]: But.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't the only time that this had happened.
[SPEAKER_03]: So fifteen years earlier in Scotland.
[SPEAKER_03]: near the town of Ag.
[SPEAKER_03]: Crusher, A.R.
[SPEAKER_03]: G.Y.L.L.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I know, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: The winter of eighteen forty heavy snowstorms followed by a freeze, reports centered around the Glenorky valley and surrounding Highland farms, residents of Oak to find a series of hoof-like impressions in the snow, very similar in size and spacing to the Devon Marks later reported.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tracks crossed frozen lakes, stone walls, and fetch cottage roofs.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were in a single file line, as if made by a two-legged creature hopping with perfect regularity.
[SPEAKER_03]: This stride was measured again eight to ten inches apart, but unlike normal animal tracks, no signs of tales or drag marks were found.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of superstition like a round Scottish folklore stuff and stuff about figure called a cludy which is essentially folklore devil figure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then in the eighteenth fifties around the same time, the accounts vary from eighteen fifty four to eighteen fifty six, which the devinsure tracks happen in fifty five.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it was either right before or right after in Switzerland was another set of tracks that had had happened in multiple alpine villages.
[SPEAKER_03]: People reported seeing the tracks again after an overnight blizzard and rapid temperature drops.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tracks were also small, cloven-like marks, three to four inches wide, and a straight, unbroken line.
[SPEAKER_03]: Witnesses claim that they traverse sheer slopes, crossed roofs of chalays, continued over frozen lakes without deviations.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some hunters followed them for several kilometers before losing them to cliff face.
[SPEAKER_03]: The prints continued in a straight line across the void and onto the other side, as if the creature had walked through the air, erupt and impossible distance to get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: and Swiss Alpine folklore, the marks were attributed to not even going to try to pronounce this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to try to pronounce this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sinan-tunchi?
[SPEAKER_03]: Little Wayne?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I've heard of that place.
[SPEAKER_03]: A supernatural goat-like mountain spirit, or the two-fold, which is the devil.
[SPEAKER_03]: Few accounts claimed to have seen a dark, dark leaping figure at night during the snowstorm, but those were all those reports were second hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: So patterned between the cases here, they were all preceded by snowfall and freezing, which helped be able to see the tracks.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were long, unbroken distances, not just one small yard or field.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing seemed to stop the tracks, walls, rivers, roofs, frozen lakes, goddamn cliff faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a single file uniform stride on like regular natural animals.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was always linked to like devil or supernatural kind of things.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was another report of similar tracks being found in Canada, but I couldn't find a lot of information on that.
[SPEAKER_03]: As I'm wrapping it up here, I was talking to a friend of mine and she said it almost seems like like there's a mechanical element to it, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: With the tracks being the same and they're being uniformed apart.
[SPEAKER_03]: She said it almost feels like someone put hooves on a wheel and just rolled it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then my brain goes, oh, you know who has hooves and looks like a wheel.
[SPEAKER_03]: whole crazy lakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, crazy lakes there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the guy that was wandering around the English countryside because of you need a wheel and some hooves that will travel in a exact straight line.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you got to think you got to you got to go there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely feel like it's a paranormal event.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't think this was a prank or a known animal.
[SPEAKER_03]: If it was one town, I would ride it off as a prank.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, or even a bizarre animal occurrence.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but the fact that it's such a wide spread event means it's got to mean something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I definitely feel like it's paranormal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't think that I believe it's the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think that it's paranormal.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's without question.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the fact that it's held up to today, and there's still no answer as to what happened, makes it weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if there was any like, old, almost like, I know this is a piss ass description, but like a blizzard god or something to that nature.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah because it kind of like comes during the the snow for whatever reason which If it's the devil Which it would almost mean that it wants its tracks to be found it wants to be known Yeah, you know what I mean because the devil isn't really isn't generally affiliated with blizzards no
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it could be considered a hellscape for sure, but generally speaking, he's affiliated with fire, not the opposite.
[SPEAKER_03]: And another another thing I forgot to bring up my friend who who brought up the like mechanical wheel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, type of tracks that's being left.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, but I also asked like when when did this take place was a close to Christmas?
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like could this be some sort of like crampus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Encounter.
[SPEAKER_03]: But since it was after February that would have been that would have been past unless those unless there's something and then you mentioned.
[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned mechanical and it kind of reminds me of the mechanical aliens that have been spotted out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Krampus is not typically celebrated in February.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's December fifth and six.
[SPEAKER_03]: So not Krampus season.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the aliens, the robot aliens were always very investigative, very curious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe I don't, I don't, I don't see why they would have hooves, but you know, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, maybe just robot peg legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, when she said mechanical on a wheel with hooves, there was a first place my brain went.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was, was to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is creepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is creepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely creepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely, like I said, I think it's a paranormal movement.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: The devil is the easiest explanation.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the time frame really leaned into that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, because that's one thing that we haven't really explored a whole lot as other countries.
[SPEAKER_01]: cryptids and and spirits and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there could be a form of regional lore that kind of puts the bill so to speak.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm curious to to our English listeners out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know we've got a few If this is still talked about like, especially those of you that live kind of in the southwest of the country,
[SPEAKER_03]: Is this still talked about?
[SPEAKER_03]: People still bring this up, like this lore has been passed down as like folklore throughout the years.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this thing's over a century old, so that is a lot of time there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just curious.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just curious to see if people still talk about this event.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that they're according to the Wikipedia.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were more tracks found.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me find it.
[SPEAKER_03]: One second here there are more tracks found in twenty fifteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they thought that they were a hoax.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me see.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: During the twenty thirteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: During twenty thirteen trails were reported in girven Scotland, possibly as part of an April Fool's hoax.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm just curious as to if this is happened again, or if anybody knows anything about it, they just put horseshoes on a unicycle.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: See, there's tons of drawings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of this thing, looking like a horseshoe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which it almost makes you wonder which direction it's walking in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also true.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could it be come in this way?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or could they be backwards?
[SPEAKER_01]: People would assume it's like a horseshoe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a horseshoe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of the English sect of the holo cult.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let us know what you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I use the Wikipedia.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also use this gnarly book that I found at the half price bookstore, which I'll shout out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's called This Baffling World by John Goodwin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Godwin.
[SPEAKER_03]: John Goodwin.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the number one out of the section.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's these.
[SPEAKER_03]: I found three of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they each have a couple different accounts of weirdness and they're old like it from the sixties.
[SPEAKER_03]: So once I saw that, I'm like, yeah, let's let's get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, that's an old chunk of high-singlish high-strangerness, holocole.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I definitely remember reading that as a kid, because once you said this, no, I knew exactly what the story was.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I just remember
[SPEAKER_01]: But I guess it was a visualization, a visualization.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't say it right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, you picture the, I think I'd heard that, like you can see the footprints going up the side of the wall and then over the roof.
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember that too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't know if I'm making that up because that's what my brain wants to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's weird to me that it walked on the tops of some things, but it didn't walk on the top of other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some things that basically walked through, did it walk through some of the houses, like that's the part that if they can walk through a stone wall, like it can walk through a wooden house, which makes it that much more invasive and creepy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a weird story.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's it, Holocaust.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've got some other old ones.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I bought, there's, I found three of these books and they got some, some good old high-strangeness that I forgot about in, in my journey here because I've been, been in the high-strangeness for as long as I can remember.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've read so much that it just kind of gets all tucked away and compartmentalized and backlogged and forget some stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you'll hear something and you're like, oh, hey, I do recall that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we might be jumping into that a little bit more.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just thought it was interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd love to get some feedback from more English sector with the Hollywood cult here.
[SPEAKER_03]: But on that note, thanks for hanging out with us on this Monday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I won't bore you with all those again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, we appreciate all of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: So until we meet again, stay safe, stay weird, and watch yourself for all those rogue circus elephants and escaped kangaroos that are traipsing around the English coastal side.