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The Dover Demon roams around the forests of Dover Massachusetts.

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The Dover Demon has been spotted in the forests by groups of teenagers over the span of 2 nights and was described as "watermelon-shaped head" and a body of a skinny monkey.

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Something to note that is important about the Dover Demon is that its eyes are very important to the figure/creature as in all sightings have been stated as "glowing". No matter what person has "seen" the demon, it always has distinct glowing eyes. In sightings where there was a flash light, head lights, or no lights involved at all, there are always the large glowing eyes.

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William, the 17-year-old student was one of the first people along with his friends claimed to see a creature in the woods of Dover, Massachusetts.

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Abby the next day had said that she saw a large creature in around a 2 mile radius of William Baxter that was incredibly similar to how he stated it.

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William and Abby were asked to draw a sketch of what they saw and it was scary how similar the two drew the figure. William drew a more in-depth sketch of the figure and show it with a watermelon-styled head with a bean-shaped body and long lanky legs with four fingers and toes. William wrote on the paper, ”I, Bill Bartlett, swear on a stack of Bibles that I saw this creature".

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A more clear and drawn out photo of the creature

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Abby and William, along with a few others, described the behavior of the "demon" and all of them had very similar takes of the creature. Most say that the creature stood at around 3 and 1/2 feet tall with a large head and slender body. As claimed before the large glowing eyes stood out the most to all of the people in the sightings.

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Dover, Massachusetts population is around 7,000 which is crazy based on the popularity of the creature

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The locations of all the sightings on a map form a straight line, many people find this weird and peculiar.

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Around the first sighting many people began to see things around the area but in recent years, there has been very minimal sightings.

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As reason years there has been little to none sightings anymore and most people are beginning to believe it was a hoax and believed that this was just a plan by a couple of high schoolers, nothing more nothing less.

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People believe that the kids might have just seen an animal on its hind legs, nothing more than that, but William Barlett disagrees and claims that there was no chance it was an animal because of the distinct eyes and long lanky fingers.

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Something to note about the Dover Demon is majority of the time the Demon will scale on top of walls and will be spotted sitting on them.

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The Dover Demon has many people skeptical on the reality of the creature, but some parts of the story adds up. People have believed the kids stories as years prior there was a case where an adult named Mark Sennott had said he saw creature much like this one and reported it. The case wasn't quite big enough for these kids to hear about it and there stories lined up with Sennott's very well, almost too well.

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We still don't know much about the creature as sightings are very minimal. People don't quite believe it isn't real yet as things happen like this around Dover, Massachusetts very often. The Dover Demon has been in a few video games and comic books to this date as it has became a small legend. Most famously the Dover Demon is in the book "The Dover Demon" by Hunter Shea which is a horror fiction based on the sightings of the Dover Demon.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWcULDL50wY

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Dover Demon | Monsters and Mysteries in America

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/dover-demon - Source 1
https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2018/07/dover-demon/ - Source 2

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Over the course of two days in April 1977, four teenagers in the idyllic town of Dover, Mass. witnessed a horrifying, alien creature. But before they could find an explanation, the Dover Demon disappeared.

Just 20 miles southwest of Boston, Mass. lies a picturesque hamlet named Dover. But hidden among the hardwood forests and curvy backroads lurks the Dover Demon. It's an unpleasant little creature, to say the least, with a watermelon-shaped head and the body of an emaciated monkey.

Within but a few hours, four teenagers in Dover claimed to have witnessed the horrifying creature, and all of their accounts described the same thing: large, glowing eyes on an otherwise blank face. But was the Dover Demon real?

Famous First Sightings Of The Dover Demon

Over the span of two nights in 1977, several teenagers reported to have seen a similar creature - and there has still been no explanation for these sightings.

William Bartlett, then 17-years-old, was the first person to see the Dover Demon. As he and two friends, Mike Mazzocco and Andy Brodie, drove along their local Farm Street just past 10 p.m., Bartlett witnessed a creature "standing on a wall, its eyes glowing [in the headlights]. It was not a dog or a cat. It had no tail. It had an egg-shaped head."

The Dover Demon, as the creature soon became known, appeared more human than animal. Bartlett said that it reminded him of children with distended stomachs. But the head had no mouth, ears or nose.

Two hours after Bartlett witnessed the creature, 15-year-old John Baxter walked his girlfriend home near a heavily wooded area. He said he got within 15 feet of a creature that looked remarkably like the one Bartlett saw.

Baxter made a black-and-white drawing of the Dover Demon. He stated this creature had large eyes and tendril-like hands. He saw this thing standing next to a tree.

The next night, on April 22 at around midnight, a 15-year-old girl named Abby Brabham saw the Dover Demon. It was standing upright next to a tree, she said, much like the sighting the night before.

The locations of the sightings, when plotted, lay in a straight line over two miles. All the sightings were made near water.

Bartlett remains shaken and haunted by the sighting even years later, "In a lot of ways it's kind of embarrassing to me. I definitely saw something. It was definitely weird. I didn't make it up. Sometimes I wish I had."

Possible Explanations For The Sightings

Independently, all three witnesses of the Dover Demon had the same - or eerily similar - story. In all accounts, there was something that was kind-of human but not quite animal about the creature. It seemed undeniable that something uncanny had come to Dover.

Some chalk up the strange encounters to inebriation. While Bartlett says he and his friends were looking for beer that night, they never did imbibe.

Alternatively, the creature could have been a foal or baby moose mistaken for something more sinister. Though April wasn't foal season and moose were long gone from Dover at the time of the sighting, additionally, foals and moose don't stand on hind legs. Nor do they sit on top of walls.

Barlett also denies that this creature could be an animal of any kind, "This definitely wasn't [a fox or animal]. It was some kind of creature with long thin fingers. [The thing was] more human-like in its form than animal... I've always tried to guess what it was. I never had any idea. I wasn't trying to be funny. People who know me know I didn't make this up."

Loren Coleman, a noted cryptozoologist from Maine, thinks all three sightings were credible. He spoke to the teens within a week of the reported sightings. "We have a credible case, over 25 hours, by individuals who saw something."

Coleman believes that the Dover Demon doesn't match any inexplicable sighting reported before, such as those of the chupacabras, Sasquatch, Roswell aliens or the bat-eared goblins from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1955.

Stranger still, weird sightings like this isn't out of the ordinary in Dover. This area of Massachusetts has had its fair share of weirdness throughout the centuries.

Other Strange Sightings In Dover

Coleman noted that the area in which the Dover Demon was sighted already had a history of unexplained activity.

"In the same area, you had three major legends going on," including a sighting of the devil on horseback in the 1600s, stories of buried treasure, and then the Dover Demon. "I think it certainly says something," Coleman continued, "It's almost as if there are certain areas that 'collect' sightings, almost in a magnetic way."

Dover could be one such place.

Then in 1972, just five years before the Dover Demon sightings, Mark Sennott swore he saw a creature in the woods. Something with glowing eyes had turned up in his car's headlights, too: "We saw a small figure, deep in the woods, moving at the edge of the pond. We could see it moving in the headlights. We didn't know."

But whatever the reality behind this barrage of odd occurrences, the Dover Demon has since sparked a cultural phenomenon. There are video games and figurines of the alien-like creature from as far away as Japan.

The Dover Demon certainly makes for a good campfire tale, and a sufficient reminder to always have a buddy when driving down Farm Street southwest of Dover - just in case.
After this look at the Dover Demon, read about the Zozo Demon and how it terrified people nation-wide through a ouija board. Then, check out Mothman, the huge insect-like creature that terrorized a West Virginia town in the 1960s.

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The Dover Demon Petrified Four Teens In A Small Town In 1977 - And Remains Unexplained Today

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Just 20 miles southwest of Boston, Mass. lies a picturesque hamlet named Dover. But hidden among the hardwood forests and curvy backroads lurks the Dover Demon. It's an unpleasant little creature, to say the least, with a watermelon-shaped head and the body of an emaciated monkey.