What was the deal with the footprints? Where they a trail of scorch marks or something?

But, that sounds really awful, I hope his final moments were ones of repentance. Even if one doesn't believe it's real the idea of it (satan worship) is still bad.

Perhaps once a child first starts to understand the concept of evil's power in addition to being a believer in embodied forces of good and evil then this is possible manifestation of one seeking to invoke evil's power to deal with some obstacle in their life-- something I'm guessing they must really hate or otherwise really want dealt with. I suppose the desire is ultimately evil to varying degrees as well.

I knew some dudes that went and did a seance on top of a church after toilet papering a house and vandalizing it with Anti-Semitic images on the night of a Jewish holiday no less.