Louis Mastriano
Dover Demon
This
enigmatic entity has fascinated investigators since 1977, when, in just two
days, no less than six eyewitness claimed to see the creature story begins on April 21, 1977,
when, at approximately 10:30 p.m., a young man by the name of Billy Barlett,
along with two friends, were driving down Farm Street near Dover,
Massachusetts. As the teenagers drove past a loose, stone edifice (known as the
Farm Street Wall,) Barlett noticed some movement out of the corner of his
eye.
It was not a dog or a cat. It had no tail. It had an egg-shaped head. It looked like a baby’s body with long arms and legs. It had a big head about the same size as the body, it was sort of melon shaped. The color of it was… the color of people in the
Suncreature had large, orange eyes and a hairless body, with what appeared to be a rough textured epidermis and a distended stomach. He further elaborated that this “animal” had large hands and feet, complete with elongated digits, which Barlett claimed the creature used to grasp the loose rocks along the wall. Later Barlett drew a picture of the thing next to the wall and annotated the day comics.”re, melon headed crea‘I Bill Bartlett swear on a stack of Bible’s that I saw this creature.’’
It was not a dog or a cat. It had no tail. It had an egg-shaped head. It looked like a baby’s body with long arms and legs. It had a big head about the same size as the body, it was sort of melon shaped. The color of it was… the color of people in the
Suncreature had large, orange eyes and a hairless body, with what appeared to be a rough textured epidermis and a distended stomach. He further elaborated that this “animal” had large hands and feet, complete with elongated digits, which Barlett claimed the creature used to grasp the loose rocks along the wall. Later Barlett drew a picture of the thing next to the wall and annotated the day comics.”re, melon headed crea‘I Bill Bartlett swear on a stack of Bible’s that I saw this creature.’’
As if
this account weren’t fascinating enough, just two hours later — and
approximately one mile away — 15 year-old John Baxter, while walking down a
lonely stretch of road en route home from his girlfriend’s house, spotted what
he described as a child-like figure moving toward him from down the street.
When the figure spied Baxter it apparently fled into the woods adjacent to the
road. Map of Dover Demon sightings. Whatever this creature was or was not, this strange case
has mystified crypto zoologists, urologists and fortean investigators for
decades. Now firmly entrenched in paranormal lore, the Dover Demon has become a
pop culture icon with its likeness appearing in both video games and Japanese
figurines, although, it must be noted, that neither it— nor any of its like—
have been reported again in the Dover area.