The Dover
Demon - Το τέρας του Ντόνβερ -Il mostro di donver
Did an alien stalk a town in Massachussetts for 25 hours in 1977 or, as
some investigators think, was it a newborn moose? Although it didn’t attack
anyone and ran when human approached it, it remains to this day one of the best
known subjects of cryptozoology which has never been satisfactorily explained
by anyone.
The Dover Demon, as it was called, was seen on three occasions by three sets
of different people who all sketched the creature (above). All three had not
previously met or spoke beforehand yet all drew the same creature. And it all took
place in the town of Dover.
It all began on April 21st, 1977 when one Bill Bartlett was driving along
Farm Street at night with friends when he saw in his headlights what he took to
be a dog or a cat walking along a wall. However it soon became apparent to him
that this was like no animal he had previously encountered.
He described it as hairless with rough sandpaper-like skin. It had a
large melon-like head with no nose, mouth or ears that he could see. He watched
it for several minutes and said its four limbs were slender and ended in
fingers. It was approximately three to four feet tall. The eyes glowed orange
when it looked towards his headlights. It hurried off and Bartlett was left
stunned at what he had just witnessed.
The creature was then spotted an hour later by two teenagers, John Baxter
and Pete Mitchell, 13 and 15 years old respectively. They gave a similar
description of the creature, except this time they described the eyes as green
and it ran on two legs and hid behind a tree. Again they said it was hairless
with a chalky grey texture to the skin. And they heard it too, describing it as
a cross between the hiss of a snake and the screech of a bird of prey. There
were no more reports that day, but on the 22nd, 15-year-old Abby Brabham and
18-year-old Will Traintor were driving along Springdale Avenue. Again they
described the same creature and added that it seemed the size of a goat and had
orange eyes. There were also no obvious sexual organs.
All three witnesses reported what they had seen and skeptical police
officers couldn’t break any of their stories which they tried to do by pointing
out the difference in reported eye colour, however they were met by defiant
insistence. And when all four drew what they had seen there was no difference
in any of their depictions. Bartlett had drawn his for his father when he
arrived home shaken by the encounter. And he had no knowledge of the other
experiences by his neighbours.
So what was it they saw, that one minute walked on all fours then on two
legs? Zoologists dismiss it as a new born moose but that wouldn’t explain the
usage of two legs or the fact it was walking on a wall. And I’m pretty sure
that these townspeople would know what moose look like given they lived there
all their lives. When you see something that is unknown to your sphere of
existence, it sticks in your mind. These witnesses were not stupid or careless
in their stories.they all told and drew exactly what the others had seen. They
had never seen anything like it before and it certainly impacted their lives.
This adds credibility to their stories as they stood to gain nothing from it
and the experience frightened them. Why risk public ridicule in a small town if
they weren’t telling the truth? They saw something that was outside their
experience and they were afraid for their homes and the lives of others in the
town. Who knew if this thing had already killed someone or was about to? They
had no way of knowing this, so this, to me, adds to their credibility.
Ufologists have made the claim it was an alien but to this day nothing
has been uncovered to substantiate either side’s claims. But no matter what
happened in those 25 hours, one thing is certain, something unknown entered the
lives of the townspeople and has never been forgotten.
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αναφέρεται ευκρινώς η πηγή του και υπάρχει ενεργός σύνδεσμος(link ). Νόμος
2121/1993 και κανόνες Διεθνούς Δικαίου που ισχύουν στην Ελλάδα.
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Ορισμένα αναρτώμενα από το διαδίκτυο κείμενα ή
εικόνες (με σχετική σημείωση της πηγής), θεωρούμε ότι είναι δημόσια. Αν
υπάρχουν δικαιώματα συγγραφέων, παρακαλούμε ενημερώστε μας για να τα
αφαιρέσουμε. Επίσης σημειώνεται ότι οι απόψεις του ιστολόγιου μπορεί να μην
συμπίπτουν με τα περιεχόμενα του άρθρου. Για τα άρθρα που δημοσιεύονται εδώ,
ουδεμία ευθύνη εκ του νόμου φέρουμε καθώς απηχούν αποκλειστικά τις απόψεις των
συντακτών τους και δεν δεσμεύουν καθ’ οιονδήποτε τρόπο το ιστολόγιο.
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