Dover Demon
The Dover demon was a mysterious creature reported by teenagers in Dover, Massachusetts, on April 21 and 22, 1977. The first to see the creature was seventeen-year-old Bill Bartlett, who described the creature in much the same way as alien abductees describe extraterrestrials: 4 feet (1.2m) tall, with a humanlike but abnormally thin body, a huge head, skinny arms and legs, long fingers and long feet. About two hours later, fifteen-year-old John Baxter, saw a creature fitting the same description, as did fifteen-year-old Abby Brabham the next night, through the window of a car in which she was riding. However, Brabham said that its eyes were green, whereas the other witnesses had described them as orange. After the local newspaper reported on the sightings (and gave the creature its name), many people in Dover dismissed the demon as nothing more than a teenage prank. However, because those reporting the sightings seemed sincere, other people suggested that the teenagers had simply mistaken a wild animal for something mysterious. Still, a few people believed that what Bartlett, Baxter, and Brabham saw was no ordinary animal but instead was a demon, a monster, or an extraterrestrial.
SEE ALSO:
- Descriptions of Aliens
SOURCE:
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena – written by Patricia D. Netzley © 2006 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
