Loren Coleman

As a result, the perpetrators became known as the Phantom Clowns.

Loren Coleman, an independent researcher and author, documented the event in his popular series Mysterious America, the ultimate guide to the nation's weirdest, strange spots and creepiest creatures.

His documentation was so thorough that I will provide here an abridged quote from his work explaining exactly what happened during that unusual American spring.

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Like boogeymen or Yetis, they didn't seem to be real.

Loren Coleman is a cryptozoologist and expert in this phenomenon, which he named Phantom Clown Theory.

Clowns that were seen by children mostly, occasionally by teachers Then, uh, law enforcement or parents would go after them, and they never could be caught.

They were seen, uh, supposedly with their costumes only on the upper part of their body whenever they were completely seen.

Like boogeymen or yetis, they didn't seem to be real.

Loren Coleman is a cryptozoologist and expert in this phenomenon, which he named Phantom Clown Theory.

Clowns that were seen by children mostly, occasionally by teachers, Then law enforcement or parents would go after them and

they never

And of course, all of us in this community know about places with devil in the name.

The first modern investigator into the strange to bring this to our attention was Bigfoot researcher and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who had a chapter titled Devil Names in Fortean Places in his 1983 book, Mysterious America.

Even then, although Loren popularized it, and many so-called researchers have copied his findings, it wasn't a new concept even 39 years ago.

Many of these so-called devil-named places can trace their origins back to the early settlers, and even beyond that in some cases to the First Nations people.

You could actually say that the stories, so the Bridgewater Triangle as a term has only existed since the 1970s, really, late 1970s.

It was first written about in a book in 1983 called Mysterious America by Loren Coleman.

He's the guy that coined that term, but he'd actually been using it for years before when he was out doing his investigations because at the time the Bermuda Triangle was really popular and he realized that East Bridgewater and Bridgewater, the three Bridgewaters make a perfect triangle.

So he coined that term and wrote about it in his book.

So in the years following the encounters, the Dover Demon expanded beyond local news coverage and became a staple of regional folklore.

And cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who arrived in Dover shortly after the sightings to interview witnesses, coined the name Dover Demon.

And Coleman acknowledged that the creature showed no aggressive or demonic behavior, but selected the name primarily for its catchy alliteration.

And it is catchy.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

And the aforementioned Loren Coleman, the cryptozoologist, also proposed an esoteric geological hypothesis.

He noted that Dover sits atop rock outcroppings known in local folklore as puka stones.