Hello again, Story Club members.

I'm Ivy, your ghostly host with the most and keeper of the strangest,

spookiest tales on earth.

Today is another Ivy's chilling tale.

This eerie tale story club members might make you shudder your windows and lock your doors on wintry nights.

It's a haunted account that I call the thing that walks at night.

This is a story that I heard years ago, beloved listeners, and it sent chills down my spine.

So, you know, I thought I'd pass it along to you.

Start your screaming in three, two, one.

Have you ever been afraid of someone or something watching you while you sleep in the night

from outside your bedroom window? Well, that's just what happened to the people of Devon

England on February 9, 1855. It's one of the eerieest stories ever recorded. On that fateful winter morning,

residents of Exeter and the south of Devon were surprised to find what appeared to be clove and

hoof prints uniformly imprinted in the new fallen snow. The tracks measured 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide

and 8 inches apart.

They tracked all around the village, leading up to house windows as if whatever made them was peering within,

watching the villagers as they slept.

The tracks led out of the village and into the countryside for over a hundred miles.

The footprints went up to stone walls, 18 foot tall haystacks,

over rooftops through drain pipes, and across wide rivers.

No obstacle obstructed the tracks.

They appeared uninterrupted on the other side,

...