What do you think about this?
Over roughly twenty five hours in April 1977, in the quiet town of Dover, Massachusetts, three teenagers on separate occasions reported seeing the same impossible creature. It began on the night of April 21, when seventeen year old Bill Bartlett, driving with friends, saw something on a low stone wall on Farm Street. It was small, maybe four feet tall, with thin gangly limbs, hairless skin, and a large watermelon shaped head. Worst of all, he said, were the eyes, two big round orbs glowing orange in his headlights. It had no nose and no mouth.
Later that same night, fifteen year old John Baxter saw a similar figure on another road, and the next night a third teenager, Abby Brabham, described the same thing yet again. None of them knew what the others had reported. Each drew a sketch, and the sketches matched.
A cryptozoologist named Loren Coleman investigated, interviewed the witnesses, and gave the creature the name that stuck, the Dover Demon. Police were less impressed, suggesting it was nothing more than a school vacation hoax.
The truth may be far stranger than we have been told, not because a monster stalked Dover, but because three teenagers who never compared notes drew the same strange face.
A shared prank, a misjudged animal in the dark, or something that briefly walked through Dover? What do you think those kids saw?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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Probably an alien who was injured or lost.