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In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

  
  Dover’s Demon lives on in local lore
Studying Dover's history, Coleman said in a telephone interview, he was struck by the fact that the area in which the Demon was sighted had a tradition of unexplained activity.
The Dover creature does not match the descriptions of the chupacabra, or of Roswell aliens, or of the bat-eared goblins said to have attacked a family in Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1955.
Downtown Dover was decorated recently with pumpkins as children arrived for a Halloween fair, and a steady stream of regulars bought coffee and newspapers at Isabella's.
www.xzone-radio.com /doversdemon.htm   (2172 words)

  
 Dover Demon - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Dover Demon was sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts, in April 21st-22nd, 1977.
The Dover Demon is today a classic cryptid, with a variety of theories abounding as to what it was or is. Eyewitness evidence strongly suggested that the creature existed, biologically speaking.
In his investigation of the case, Loren Coleman gave the Dover Demon a credibility rating of 5 on a scale of 1 to 10, initially in 1977, but his sense of the reliability of the witnesses and the case has increased.
www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Dover_Demon   (1262 words)

  
  The Paranormal Conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dover Demon : is described as a peculiar entity with glowing orange eyes, standing around 1 metre or (3-4 feet) high, with rough, peach coloured, hairless, skin.
; the dover demon is said to have a disproportionately large head in comparison to its body.
The small community of Dover, Massachusetts entered into the cryptozoological limelight on April 27th, 1977 at approximately 10:30PM, with three (3) separate sightings of a bizarre creature, termed "The Dover Demon", that seemed utterly unlike anything that had ever been reported before.
groups.msn.com /TheParanormalConspiracy/doverdemon.msnw   (491 words)

  
 dover demon
The Dover Demon falls into the classification of a legend by our definition, although there are some elements to it that set it apart, namely the fact it seems to be based on first person accounts in the modern era and has been investigated.
Either way, the Demon is both a legend and a puzzle in that the details and nature of the occurrence have never been solved.
The Demon and the effects it created were beyond the technology of a person to create at that time, more of a job for Hollywood than locals.
www.masscrossroads.com /ddemon   (498 words)

  
 More on Demon
The wilderness as the home of demons was regarded as the place whence such diseases as leprosy issued, and in cases of leprosy one of the birds set apart to be offered as an expiatory sacrifice was released that it might carry the disease back to the desert (Lev.
23) as a demon whose malignant effect upon the houses of the Israelites was to be warded off by the blood of the paschal sacrifice sprinkled upon the lintel and the door-post (a corresponding pagan talisman is mentioned in Isa.
Demons have permeated the culture of children's cartoons and anime; they are used in comic books as powerful adversaries in the horror, fantasy and superhero stories.
www.eduhistory.com /demon.htm   (3841 words)

  
 Dover Demon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dover Demon was alledgedly sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts, in April 21st-22nd, 1977.
The Dover Demon is today a classic cryptid, with a variety of theories abounding as to what it was or is. Early ufologists first promoted speculation that the creature was an alien or some sort of mutant hybrid, perhaps one created as a result of a human experiment and escaped.
The Dover Demon bears similarity to the Mannegishi creature, which is native to the mythology of the Cree Indians in Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dover_Demon   (1243 words)

  
 Dover Apartments | Dover MA Apartment and Roommate Rental Map Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dover was officially incorporated as a town in 1836.The Caryl House, 107 Dedham St., Dover, dates from circa 1777 and was home to Dover's first minister, Benjamin Caryl, his son George, who was the town's first doctor, and their descendants until 1897.
The museum is owned and operated by the Dover Historical Society and is open to the public free of charge.In 1977, the Dover Demon was sighted on three separate occasions in the town.
Demographics of Dover, MA As of the census2 of 2000, there were 5,558 people, 1,849 households, and 1,567 families residing in the town.
www.myapartmentmap.com /sub_city.php?state=ma&city=dover&master_city=1   (1066 words)

  
 Dover, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dover was officially incorporated as a town in 1836.
The Caryl House, 107 Dedham St., Dover, dates from circa 1777 and was home to Dover's first minister, Benjamin Caryl, his son George, who was the town's first doctor, and their descendants until 1897.
In 1977, the Dover Demon was sighted on three separate occasions in the town.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dover,_Massachusetts   (1077 words)

  
 The Cryptid Zoo: The Dover Demon
The Dover demon is described as looking sort of like the "gray" variety of alien, except that it has skin of a rosy orange instead of sickly gray.
The Dover demon is, however, a preoccupation of fringe cryptozoologists.
Skeptics usually claim that the Dover demon was simply a lost baby moose glimpsed under unusual conditions that made it seem like a bizarre humanoid that sometimes went on four legs.
www.newanimal.org /dover-demon.htm   (415 words)

  
 Clubalien.com - Definitions
Demonic Spirit- An entity or spirit spawning from the devil that is or was of this earth.
Usually demonic spirits are distinguished by their dark, or fl masses of psychic energy.
Dover Demon- Demon-like creature with large head, orange eyes, peach colored hairless skin, that resides in Dover, Massachusetts.
www.clubalien.com /definitions.shtml   (1466 words)

  
 The Triangle Online- The Student Newspaper at Drexel University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When he returned home that night he drew a picture of the monster, later to be dubbed the Dover Demon by a local newspaper, when his father noticed that he was rather upset.
A 15-year-old named John Baxter sighted the Dover Demon while walking home from his girlfriend's house, at first mistaking it for a very short friend of his (accounts state that the creature was less than 4 feet tall).
I had heard about the Dover Demon before and have seen the drawing of the creature before but I had never had time to figure out what it was and what the story was about (due to trying to figure out the other cases of cryptids).
www.thetriangle.org /media/paper689/news/2005/05/06/SciTech/Dover.Demon.Haunting.Nighttime.Story.Tenuous-949489.shtml   (1083 words)

  
 What's the story behind the Dover Demon? - Answerbag.com
The Dover Demon was sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts, in April 21st-22nd, 1977.
As Coleman first pointed out, the Dover Demon bears similarity to the Mannegishi creature, which is native to the mythology of the Cree Indians in Canada.
In his investigation of the case, Loren Coleman gave the Dover Demon a credibility rating of 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.
www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/19825   (998 words)

  
 Dover Demon still haunts
Dover –Twenty-nine years later, William Bartlett stands by his story of what he saw on Farm Street that night.
Once, his wife, Gwen, browsing the horror section of a bookstore, flipped open an encyclopedia of monsters — and there was an entry about her husband and the Dover Demon.
More about the Dover Demon is available at the Strange New England website, or at Loren Coleman’s website.
www.fuchsiashockz.co.uk /articles/nature/Dover_Demon_still_haunts.php   (1907 words)

  
 Definitivamente, Dover se convierten al rock bailable [Feeds4All.com]
DOVER - De twee mannen (23 en 21 jaar) uit Hapert en Veldhoven die zaterdag in de haven van Dover werden gearresteerd, hadden tien kilo cocaïne bij zich.
Al snel kreeg deze als bijnaam de "Dover Demon".
Dover woman dancing with the stars (Dover Post)“Several times light bulbs have exploded, spattering me with shards of glass.
www.feeds4all.com /Item.aspx?ItemID=12583957   (287 words)

  
 Dover Demon - Printer Friendly Page - cryptozoo - Warphead.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The last thing a 17 year old Bill Bartlett expected to see when driving with two friends through Dover, Massachusetts, at around 10:30 PM on April 21, 1977 was a creature from another dimension.
And thus ended the curious case of the Dover Demon, for it has never been reported again and has never been satisfactorily identified.
If the descriptions of it are accurate-and they are certainly very consistent-the Dover Demon does not resemble any species known to science, either from North America or elsewhere.
www.warphead.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=296   (552 words)

  
 Dover Demon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On April 21, 1977 at roughly 10:30 PM several sightings took place in Dover, Massachusetts that would set the small town on fire.
From the initial sightings during the dead of night to the ensuing investigation, the small town would forever be on the maps of paranormal investigators.
Three seventeen-year-old boys were driving north along Dover when Bill Bartlett, one of the passengers, claimed he spotted a small creature creeping along a low wall of stones on the left side of the road.
meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Cryptozoology/Humanoid/dover_demon.htm   (542 words)

  
 Mysterious Reality - Dover Demon
At 10:30 P.M., on April 21, 1977 the tale of the Dover Demon was born as three teenage boys were driving through Dover, MA.
Another story of the Dover Demon occurred at 12:30 A.M. that same night by 15 yr.
The next day, both stories came together and the Dover Demon was born.
www.mysteriousreality.com /Xcreatures/xcreatures_landbeasts_doverdemon.asp   (401 words)

  
 About Dover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dover was ranked Number 1 in the Boston Magazine /Babson College survey of "the healthiest towns in greater Boston"
Incorporated in 1784, Dover relied on agriculture and grazing until the late 18th century when mills were developed.
Dover is 16 miles southwest of Boston and 197 miles from New York City.
www.doverma.org /aboutdover.php   (179 words)

  
 Chile: An Alleged Non-Human Caught on Film
The creature in the photograph (assuming it's not a hoax or some sort of film defect) immediately reminded me of the "Dover Demon" -- the name given to a creature seen by several witness in Dover, Massachusetts in 1977.
The Dover Demon looks very similar in general form to the creature Germán Pereira has allegedly photographed.
In the article, witnesses of the Dover Demon, Will Taintor and his girlfriend Abby Brabham, described it as tan in color and "compared the creature's size to that of a goat".
www.rense.com /general53/chile.htm   (510 words)

  
 Dover Demon
Dover Demon : is described as a peculiar entity with glowing orange eyes, standing around 1 metre or (3-4 feet) high, with rough, peach coloured, hairless, skin.
Like the Cree Indian accounts of the mannegishi; the dover demon is said to have a disproportionately large head in comparison to its body.
The creature has never been satisfactorily identified, although there is some similarity to the mannegishi creature that is native to the mythology of the Cree Indians of eastern Canada.
www.paranormality.com /dover_demon.shtml   (217 words)

  
 Dover Demon Info - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Hi, i was looking to see if anyone knows a website with the history and other things about the Dover Demon such as when he was first sighted.
Incan Descendant, welcome to UM, I am sure a quick search on Google under Dover Demon would have satisfied your request, anyway I thought I would kick some life into this topic to try and make a discussion out of it for you..
Since then there have been many theories as to what the Dover Demon was.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=83214   (1920 words)

  
 Strange New England
April 21 1977, in Dover Massachusetts, an event took place that placed the town of Dover in the paranormal history books.
Dover would experience one more sighting of this strange creature.
On May 16 the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe ran stories on the Dover Demon.
strangene.com /monsters/dover.htm   (793 words)

  
 Cryptomundo.com » Dover Demon 2006
The Dover Demon is featured in an expanded chapter in the new edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures (NY: Paraview Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 2007).
Fort would have offered that occurrences such as Dover Demon, Flatwoods Monster, Phantom ‘Roos, Evil Clowns, etc., seem to be intended to draw us out from the artifice of our too-carefully reasoned existence.
I have never really felt that the Dover Demon was quite so easily explained by some sort of known creature, such as a raccoon with heavy metal poisoning, but I suppose that anything is possible.
www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/doverdemon06   (3019 words)

  
 Project Zero: A resource for paranormal phenomena.
The Dover Demon: A strange creature that has become known as the Dover Demon was spotted in Massachusetts, USA.
The creature had no visible mouth or nose, this description was given by all the witnesses who saw the Dover Demon.
Other people also witnessed the Dover Demon around the same time, all reporting a bizarre creature with a large head, slender limbs, and bright large eyes in the same area.
prozero.bravehost.com /crypto.html   (2642 words)

  
 Paranormal News Magazine: Monster Week: The Dover Demon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On April 21, 1977, around 10:30 pm, three 17-year-olds were driving through Dover, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, when one of the teens spotted something unusual, or even paranormal.
At first thinking it was a dog or a cat, a closer inspection revealed a bizarre, unearthly-looking creature crawling along a stone wall on Farm Street.
A local paper dubbed the creature the "Dover Demon".
www.paranormalmagazine.com /2006/10/monster-week-dover-demon.html   (302 words)

  
 WESTLAKE GIRLS SOFTBALL
In the Major, Dover, Demon, Pony, and Colt Divisions it is necessary for the winning coach to immediately contact the Division Director with the game score.
Demon, Pony and Colt girls who are next to bat may take practice swings in the caged areas at fields: 4, 5, C-4, and C-5.
Coaches in the Major, Dover, Demon, Pony, and Colt Divisions may only file a protest to the head umpire during the playing of the game and before the next pitch.
www.homestead.com /westlakegirlssoftball/files/97rules.htm   (1850 words)

  
 What Exactly Was The 'Dover Demon?'
He asks her to describe the figure, deliberately phrasing misleading questions about aspects of the creature's appearance he knew not to be true in order to check her story against Bartlett's, which he did not mention to her.
Although none of the witnesses had reported seeing a UFO in connection with the Dover Demon, the ufologists are struck by the creature's apparent resemblance to humanoid beings sometimes associated with UFOs.
On the other hand, maybe the Demon is a member of a curious race known to the Cree Indians of eastern Canada as the Mannegishi, the authors write.
www.rense.com /general65/dover.htm   (1773 words)

  
 The Dover Demon
The frightening events known as the Dover Demon encounters began at 10:30 p.m.
on April 21, 1977, in Dover, Massachusetts, an upscale suburb of Boston.
While misperception may have played a role in what they saw, it is hard to imagine mistaking a moose for the creature that they described.
www.subversiveelement.com /DoverDemon.html   (587 words)

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