Saturday, November 11, 2006

Dover's Demon lives on in local lore

Twenty-nine years later, William Bartlett stands by his story of what he saw on Farm Street that night. It was an eerie human-like creature, he said, about 4 feet tall with glowing orange eyes and no nose or mouth in a watermelon-shaped head.


I first encountered the story of the Dover Demon in elementary school. In retrospect, the alleged being's superficial resemblance to a "Gray" should have been obvious.

If Albert Budden is right and the image of the big-eyed Gray can be attributed to altered states induced by electromagnetism (a la Michael Persinger's geo-electric hypothesis), it's worth scoping out the Dover area for any potentially hallucinogenic AM "hotspots."

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