The Devil's Footprints, February 8, 1855 During a rather cold winter, residents woke up one morning to find close to 100 miles worth of horse-shoe like prints roaming the towns. The prints were all single file as though a one-legged man were hopping along. The consistency of the story didn't change significantly from one town to another. The tracks led through walls, walked on rooftops, appeared from one side of rivers to the other and even climbed through 6 inch diameter drainpipes. Starting and stopping as if from nowhere. The tracks roamed through gardens and across the streets and led out to nowhere. There were accounts of people tracing the prints only to see them stop and carry on a little farther away as though the creature jumped or flew at times. The tracks were evenly spaced at 8 inches although other second-hand accounts get them as high as 14-16 inches apart. The foot was generally 4 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide and didn't have the characteristic left-right-left-right motion to them. Townspeople all started calling them the Devil's Footprints and people feared to leave their houses at night. Explanations for the Devil's Footprints... A Smiley Face from Outer Space! :-)