Comments on: Dover Demon 2006

By: Basek

Basek — Fri, 11 May 2007 02:51:35 +0000

Thats it!!
My friend and I were talking about freaky things thats happened to us and I told her a story about when I was 10 and saw THAT thing!
She asked me to find a picture and I found this website.
I Can't believe it, Thats it!

I woke up one night I'd say 1am, in my Cottage in Canada, Ontario. I had to go to the bathroom so I got up from my bed and looked forward and there it was! It had light brown skin, Glowing red eyes! I'm sure of it! Looked 100% Like those pictures!! I rubbed my eyes and thought it was a figment of my imagination. It had picked up a plastic knife from one of my Kids games. I fell back on to my bed and stared at it and it back at me for a good minute, I was so Scared I couldn't even speak.

It started to move towards me then ran out the door and that's the last I ever saw of it. No one believed me, Said I Was dreaming! But there was no way I could dream that! I couldn't go back to bed!! It stared at me for so long!! It stood right in front of me, It's burned in my memory, 7 years ago and after reading all that I'm scared to go to bed even now.

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:52:48 +0000

This has always been one of the more intriguing and memorable cases and I believe they really did see what they saw. Fascinating stuff and nice to read an update about it.

By: Shihan

Shihan — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:02:49 +0000

I think that quantum physics/mechanics could explain a lot of these types of sightings – now, if we could only understand how it works!

By: Labyrinth_13

Labyrinth_13 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:35:49 +0000

Ah, the old Dover Demon case, brings back so many great memories! I remember first reading about the Dover Demon in the old print edition of Strange Magazine. It was also my first introduction to this interesting Fortean investigator named Loren Coleman (and yes, I bought all of your books afterward Loren and have been hooked ever since).

I have never really felt that the Dover Demon was quite so easily explained by some sort of known creature, such as a raccoon with heavy metal poisoning, but I suppose that anything is possible. Like so many other things in the Fortean/cryptozoology world, exactly what William Bartlett saw will never be proved definitively until we get additional evidence of some sort or another.

Until such a time comes around, I’m just glad to have “gotten to know” such a great entity as the Dover Demon (and am thankful for the avenues that it opened for me).

By: Sky King

Sky King — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:26:16 +0000

“Spoon Nose Says:

Sky King’s post raises an interesting issue: can Forteans and cryptozoologists coexist on the Internet without driving each other crazy?”

I consider myself BOTH, and have no trouble reconciling them with one another.

If there’s a problem with that, there must certainly be a solution, if you’re (editorial “you”) willing to try!

By: Spoon Nose

Spoon Nose — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:23:14 +0000

Sky King’s post raises an interesting issue: can Forteans and cryptozoologists coexist on the Internet without driving each other crazy?

By: Sky King

Sky King — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:13:22 +0000

Fort would have offered that occurrences such as Dover Demon, Flatwoods Monster, Phantom ‘Roos, Evil Clowns, etc., seem to be intended to draw us out from the artifice of our too-carefully reasoned existence. They are a signpost pointing towards the marvelous. If you struggle towards any strained explanation, you’ve totally missed the point! Let go of your preconceptions about the true nature of “reality” and hang on for the ride… because WHATEVER you think reality is, it’s destined to be wrong! The punchline is you.

PROPHECY, this AIN’T!!

By: Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:09:45 +0000

Now I know what the Dover Demon is or isn’t? I never paid much attention too it, but at least I know the origin of this paranormal event.

By: Spoon Nose

Spoon Nose — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:07:25 +0000

Raccoon suffering from heavy metal poisoning. No hair–I’ve seen photos of raccoons suffering from that condition. That would explain the hairless body. Large eyes, well, raccoons have large eyes, which would look even larger without hair. Eye shine with the presence of car headlamp light would also make the eyes look bigger. Google “racoon skull” and tell me that a raccoon skull, with skin wrapped around it, wouldn’t look like the “Dover Demon”‘s head. Large, spindly fingers, just like a raccoon’s. I’ve also seen raccoons in every one of the poses described in the photographs. Do an image search on “raccoon” and take a good look–there’s your Dover Demon. Nocturnal, seen at night, just like a raccoon. Physical size is about right.

I grew up with the DD mystery, but now it just seems tragic. Something was probably poisoning wildlife out there and the poor thing probably died some time later. Someone should go back into the county records and see if there was a Superfund site nearby.

The only problem I can think of with the theory is the lack of a tail. It’s possible the eyewitness missed it. I know he said it wasn’t a tailless cat or dog, but what is more likely: that we’re dealing with a poisoned animal whose appearance is altered (the likes of which is fairly well documented) that the eyewitnessed missed just one key detail on, or some kind of strange being?

By: sasquatch

sasquatch — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:11:49 +0000

A baby bigfoot with some physical defects? Maybe abandoned by it’s mother?

It had fingers, its arms are longer than the legs, it could stand up, its head was egg shaped, its eyes glowed in the dark. These are all characteristics I’ve seen associated with Bigfoot sightings. The hairlessness could be a defect and associated with lack of nutrition. Just a possibility I’ve never seen raised.