Dover Demon

Right.

Like the, when I was looking into the Dover Demon.

You know, um, this thing apparently cut a swath, you know, through the area and you've got witnesses describing the same thing that are 50 miles apart.

And when it's, it's very odd.

Had a friend that I graduated with that went to NYU and I went and, uh, couch surfed there for three months in the, the East Village.

And one weekend some people from NYU that they knew said, "Hey, I know where there's a house party in Massachusetts.

Let's go." So I went with them and we're in this place and I, I go, "Hey, I'm in Dover." And I, I said something about, "Oh, home of the Dover Demon." And they're like, "Oh, you wanna talk to Bill." And I don't know which one it was, there was two witnesses.

One of them went by Bill and the other one was named William but he may have been Bill too.

Others theorized it was an extraterrestrial that had been stranded in the New England woods, or perhaps even an interdimensional traveler that had briefly slipped through the veil between our world and theirs.

And then, just as quickly as it had happened, the Dover Demon vanished.

There were no more sightings on the 23rd, nor the 24th.

And in the nearly 50 years since those damp spring nights in 1977, the creature has never been seen again.

We'll move beyond simple beasts to encounter the supernatural spirits of indigenous lore, the tragic figures of modern urban legends, and the celebrated hoaxes that have become beloved regional icons.

Prepare to meet the soul-stealing Kushtaka of Alaska, the mind-bending Dover Demon from right here in Massachusetts, and the sorrowful melonheads of our neighboring states.

These are the stories that show us not just what we fear, but who we are.

Let's begin our descent into the strange.

For 48 terrifying hours in April 1977, the quiet wooded town of Dover, Massachusetts became the setting for one of the most bizarre and compelling cryptic encounters on record.

The creature, quickly dubbed the Dover Demon, was not a hairy beast or a swamp monster, but something utterly alien that appeared briefly, terrified several credible witnesses, and then seemingly vanished forever.

The entire saga unfolded through three distinct sightings.

The first occurred on the night of April 21st, when 17-year-old Bill Bartlett and his friends were driving down Farm Street.

This week on the podcast, we are discussing...

The Dover Demon, 24 Hours of Terror.

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Uh, this week on the podcast, we are discussing the Dover demon, 24 hours of terror.

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There are still things referenced about both of them.

And if you're wondering, what in the heck are y'all talking about, Matt? We're going to be talking about, number one, the Dover Demon, which I'm honestly surprised we haven't touched on before now.

I had to look to make sure we hadn't.

We have talked about some cryptids that are like way, when you pull out a cryptid that I've never heard of before, you know, but I knew the Dover Demon.

Yep.

And the other one is the Glowacus, which that is, yeah, you're going, what? Mm-hmm.

And then we're going to get into these eyewitnesses and talk about some theories about what these people may actually have seen.

Okay? So, Adam, let's get rolling.

Others theorized it was an extraterrestrial that had been stranded in the New England woods or perhaps even an interdimensional traveler that had briefly slipped through the veil between our world and theirs.

And then, just as quickly as it had happened, the Dover Demon vanished.

There were no more sightings on the 23rd nor the 24th.

And in the nearly 50 years since those damp spring nights in 1977, the creature has never been seen again.

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And if you don't know by now, I'm bringing you the Dover Demon.

So crack one open, and let me take you on a little adventure.

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And these people that saw the unicorn, they drew the same exact thing when they saw it after dark.

Did they hear it fart? That's probably what got their attention.

If a unicorn farts in the dark and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? Much like the Dover Demon, if he farts in the woods and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? And the answer's yes, because that little pale slime ball definitely has a butthole the size of Tucson that it's coming out of-

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Yes

... maybe you might like the Dover Demon instead.

Well, it depends what the Dover Demon is famous for doing.

I may not like him at all.

[laughs] It was quite a bizarre thing actually.

I mean, it does sound a bit creepy and quite alien-adjacent, but he's tiny.

You could yeet this guy.

[laughs] You could take the Dover Demon.