dover

The last thing that 17 year old Bill Bartlett expected to see when driving with two friends through

Dover, Massachusetts, at around 10:30 p.m. on April 21, 1977 was a creature from another

dimension. Yet that is what he may have done, at least in the opinion of some investigators - and

judging from Bill's description of what he saw. Driving along, his car's headlights suddenly illuminated

a peculiar entity picking its way along a stone wall at the side of the road. As can be seen from the

picture that Bill later prepared, which is reproduced here, the creature had a disproportionately large head, shaped like a
watermelon, with two big protruding eyes that glowed orange, but it did not seem to have a mouth, nose, or ears. Its body
was small, its neck and limbs were long and thin, and it's fingers and toes were slender and supple. The creature
appeared to be hairless, but its peach colored skin was rough in texture. It stood about 3-4 feet tall (1 meter), and was
observed only by Bill (his friends were not looking in the right direction to see it).

Unknown to Bill, however, his strange sighting would soon be substantiated by an entirely independent eyewitness. Less
than two hours later around 12:30 am, 15 year old John Baxter was walking home little more than a mile from the locality of
Bill's encounter when he saw a strange figure coming towards him. He thought it might be one of his friends so he called
out, after receiving no reply, John paused, and as he did the figure ran away down a gully. John chased after it and when
he was bout 30 feet (9 meters) away, he could see it clearly, standing upright on its hind legs, its feet "molded" around the
top of a rock, and it was gripping the trunk of a tree. It had long fingers on both hands which entwined around the trunk.
When he spied its brightly glowing eyes staring at him from the otherwise featureless face, John decided to quickly go
back to the road. Once he reached home, he too made a visual record of what he had witnessed, and as can be seen
here, his wholly independent illustration corresponds very closely to Bill's.

One of Barlett's friends named Will Taintor, 18, was driving with Abby Brabham. At around midnight on April 22, Abby
spotted somehting in the cars headlights. She described it as a hairless creature crouched on all fours, facing the car, it's
body was thin and monkeylike, its head large, oblong, and did not have a nose, ears, and a mouth. The facial area around
the eyes seemed lighter, and the eyes glowed green. Abby's description matched those of Bill and John in every respect
except one: when she observed it, its eyes were glowing green, while Bill said that they were orange. Will only caught a
brief glimpse of the creature

If the description is accurate, the Dover demon does not resemble any species known to science, either from North
America or elsewhere. It is not entirely unknown in the Cree nation of eastern Canada. They speak of the race of pygmy
entities called the Mannegishi, who delight in playing tricks upon travelers. According to the Cree, the Mannegishi have
round head, long thin legs, arms, with six fingers on each hand, and they live between rocks in the rapids.

Bibliography: Clark, Jerome. (1993). Unexplained!. Washington, D.C.: Visible Ink Press.