Hello Cryptid Hunters!



This is going to be the Eighth installment of Cryptid Of The Month, where i will be covering EVERYTHING, and i do mean EVERYTHING regarding a specific Cryptid, mostly more obscure cryptids but there might be some exceptions to that rule. You can find the last 7 installments just by clicking on the cryptid of the month flair tagged to this post! This one will be about the Dover Demon of Dover MA!



Now lets begin with the sighting on April 21t 1977 in the quaint  town of Dover Massachusetts. Three 17 year old boys were driving back to their homes, when suddenly the cars headlights illuminated something strange climbing the small rock wall on the left that lined the road. Bill Bartlett, the driver of the vehicle, as he examined the creature straddling the wall he first thought i was something like an raccoon, or cat or something of the like, but as the car drew closer to the figure and lights shone brighter on it he realized it was not something mundane like he thought at first. He stared at the creature in disbelief as the creature stared back with its massive orange eyes, he described the creature as around 3ft tall and almost humanoid in appearance, with peachy colored furless rough skin. Possessing a small torso with a spindly neck connecting to its massive head that seemed unfit for the size of the creature being grossly large. The creatures face was devoid of any features besides its massive eyeballs, and having freakishly long arms and fingers. The creature continued to climb up the wall as the car drew near, slowly and seemingly calculated climb, until it was out of sight and into the darkness of the cold night. After seeing the creature Bartlett and the other 2 boys made a sketch of the creature, which almost perfectly matched the sketch of another sighting  of an odd creature made the very same night



The second encounter comes only a few hours after Bartlett had seen the creature on the other side of Dover. A 15 year old boy named John Baxter was walking back home from his girlfriends home, much later than he was supposed to be out. While he rushing back home he eventually saw a very small human like figure, he figured it was a young child, walking towards him on the sidewalk. He slowed down to try and look at the figure better wondering why such a young child was walking alone on such a dark and late night, as he drew nearer to the person he could still not make out any features of the figure due the dark overcast skies and lack of proper streetlights on the road he was walking, as he was growing nearer to the person they stopped walking towards Baxter and just stood completely still, seemingly staring at him. After standing still for a little while the figure quickly rushed and jumped into the ditch that lined the road, disappearing out of Baxter's sight. Seeing this Baxter followed what he still presumed to be a young. maybe lost, child, into the ditch and into the surrounding tress where he heard twigs and leaves snapping to give chase. As he went into the forest the sounds stopped, and so did he, looking around his surroundings for child, nothing was around him, it was empty. Until he saw something on some rocks in the distance, an odd, unnatural shape stood upon the rocks basked in the darkness of the night, until a beam of moonlight aligned  itself onto the figure illumining its full form. Baxter stared at this creature with a bulbous head held up by a small body and thin neck with spindly limbs and fingers, with its face being devoid of all features besides 2 darker spots where eyes should've been on its face perched upon a rock. After seeing this monster Baxter quickly made a break of the road that he had been on to get away from this thing, where a young couple had slowed down their car to check on the frantic and scared teenager. They gave him a lift home and Baxter would make a sketch that was near identical of the one Bartlett had made.



The last encounter comes one day later on April 22nd by Abby Brabham and her boyfriend Will Traintor. They were driving back home from a party they had gone to, when Abby had seen something that was lit up by the headlights of car standing on the side of the road near the treeline. As they grew closer and the light brighter she could see the creature better, a creature with a large head held up by a thin neck and short body with long spindly limbs and finger, with massive green seemingly glowing eyes with no other features. At the sight of this creature Abby screamed in fear, causing Will to slam on the brakes in panic where she pointed in the rear view mirror where he saw the creature standing in the road staring at the car. The creature quickly scurried off never to be seen again.





I hope you enjoyed this thank you for reading! Please comment any suggestions for upcoming months or if any of the information is inaccurate (Hopefully not but i do want to give only the truest information).

And as always Happy Cryptid Hunting!

Sincerely -XP



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