THE DEVIL CAME TO DEVON: 100 Miles of Unexplained and Impossible Cloven Footprints Appear Overnight
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: One morning in 1855, citizens of the English town of Devon were surprised to find strange footprints about town in the snow – not just on the street and sidewalks – but on their doorways, and on the house roofs, haystacks, walking up walls, and through pipes. The tracks covered over 100 miles and there was no explanation of how the prints were made – but many had a theory about who made the prints. They say it was the Devil. (The Devil Came To Devon) *** Picture this, you are called to the scene of a murder. The victim’s shotgun was found in his room. It had been used some time recently, and there was an empty cartridge on the floor. There was, however, no blood or any other obvious signs of violence in the house. And something else odd, a pot in the kitchen was discovered to contain large amounts of strychnine. It sounds like one of those murder-mystery party games you solve with friends, but this is from a true murder mystery in Australia that still fascinates those who study the case. (The Wonnangatta Murders) *** What do a Jesuit missionary and a former slave have in common? The answer is… Bigfoot. (The Missionary, The Slave, and Bigfoot) *** The FBI described Israel Keyes as one of the most meticulous and vile serial killers in American history – so much so, he even had the FBI scratching their heads. (A Meticulous Serial Killer)
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:01:13.109 = Show Open
00:03:37.426 = The Devil Came To Devon
00:21:39.117 = ***Wonnangatta Murders
00:29:07.684 = The Missionary, The Slave, and Bigfoot
00:41:04.083 = ***Meticulous Serial Killer
00:48:14.028 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break
SOURCES and RESOURCES:
“The Devil Came To Devon” by Orrin Grey at Ranker https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7ystth0v, and Brent Swancer at Mysterious Universe https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3oq43yg9
“The Wonnangatta Murders” by Undine for Strange Company: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2re9d8ah
“The Missionary, The Slave, and Bigfoot” by Michael Mayes for Texas Cryptid Hunter: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2porklp7
“A Meticulous Serial Killer” by Orrin Grey for The LineUp: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2cpjds74
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| 0:00.0 | When police officer Matt Klein returns to the quiet coastal town of Marshport, he hopes |
| 0:08.7 | for a fresh start with his family. |
| 0:11.4 | But a series of brutal, inexplicable deaths begins to unravel the town. |
| 0:16.7 | At the center of it all is an ancient evil bound to a seemingly harmless gift of an antique |
| 0:22.3 | advent calendar, a relic, counting down to the night when the light of Christmas goes out. |
| 0:28.9 | As the days slip by, strange voices whisper through the walls, people go mad, and reality |
| 0:35.3 | itself starts to crack. |
| 0:43.9 | The deeper Matt digs, the closer he comes to facing an evil that has been waiting for him for years. |
| 0:50.9 | Now with his wife and sons in peril and the final door of the calendar looming, Matt must confront the truth. |
| 0:57.1 | Some traditions were never meant to be completed. 24 days. 24 doors. All leading to one unholy Christmas Eve. Advent of Evil, a 24-episode |
| 1:09.9 | event on Weird Darkness beginning December 1st, |
| 1:13.7 | or get the entire novel at Weirddarkness.com slash advent of evil. |
| 1:23.1 | The world of cryptozoology is no stranger to odd footprints found throughout the world, |
| 1:32.4 | coming in a wide variety of sizes and with their own peculiarities. |
| 1:37.3 | These tracks often leave bewilderment, bafflement, and spur on questions after questions |
| 1:43.3 | to their origins about what sort of creature |
| 1:45.8 | could have made them. |
| 1:47.6 | The answers of what caused them are not always completely clear, but they invariably |
| 1:52.3 | are caused for much debate and speculation. |
| 1:56.3 | Among these anomalous prints are those that are from far-flung destinations, yet seem to share some similar |
| 2:01.9 | traits, that of some hoofed creature that has left its footprints behind, and which have |
| 2:07.3 | caused debate as to whether they are caused by the same strange creature, a hoax, or just |
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