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Alright, buckle up, truth-seekers and bunker-dwellers! Welcome back to TRUE ALIENS SHOW, the only podcast digging so deep the mole people are getting nervous. This is your daily dose of HIGH STRANGENESS and unexplained weirdness that the powers that be don't want you to touch.
Tonight, we're cracking open a cold case from the creepy annals of American weirdness. Forget your quaint New England charm; we're going to Dover, Massachusetts, 1977, where teenage angst met something... else.
GET READY TO QUESTION EVERYTHING! Three terrified teenagers! A creature description that sounds like something coughed up from a dimension humanity was never meant to see! GLOWING ORANGE EYES! Was it a cryptid, an alien, or just the world glitching out for 48 hours in one sleepy town? Find out what happened when the SPINDLY-LIMBED FUCKNNUGGET came to call!
Let's rip this thing open.
It all went down in Dover, Massachusetts, on April 21st and 22nd, 1977. Three separate sightings within roughly 24 hours turned a normal town into a HIGH STRANGENESS hotspot.
First up, seventeen-year-old Bill Bartlett is driving with friends on Farm Street when his headlights catch something perched on a stone wall. It was small, maybe four feet tall, with a disproportionately large, watermelon-shaped head on a thin neck, connected to a spindly, skinny body with long, tendril-like limbs. The skin was hairless and pinkish-beige. The kicker? Two huge, round, lidless eyes glowing bright ORANGE. No nose, no ears, no mouth visible – just those eyes staring back. Bartlett rightfully floored it, genuinely terrified. Later, he drew that now ICONIC SKETCH.
Just a couple of hours later that same night, fifteen-year-old John Baxter was walking home about a mile away. He saw a figure he thought was a friend, called out, but it stopped. As he got closer, he saw something very similar to what Bartlett described: short, thin arms (maybe wrapped around a tree), a large head, and big dark eyes (he didn't report the glow). Feeling that primal "WRONG!" sensation, Baxter booked it and got a ride home. Corroboration, baby!
The next day, eighteen-year-old Abby Brabham was driving with a friend near the first sighting area. Her friend missed it, but Abby spotted it standing by the road. She described a creature with a large, egg-shaped head, hairless pale skin, and big GREEN eyes this time. It was just standing there, staring straight ahead, seemingly oblivious, before she drove past.
Three credible witnesses, three sightings in 24 hours, and then... nothing. It vanished. Police reports went nowhere – just standard procedure when s**t gets weird and there's no body count. Enter cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who interviewed the witnesses, found them credible, and dubbed it the "DOVER DEMON". He leans towards an unknown animal or something extradimensional.
There was ZERO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE left behind – no footprints, hair, or slime. For high-strangeness events, sometimes the lack of trace is part of the phenomenon. The witnesses weren't known hoaxers or drug users; they just wanted to be left alone.
The Dover Demon is a CRYPTOZOOLOGY CLASSIC and a prime example of a high-strangeness event with credible witnesses but zero physical proof. It wasn't Bigfoot, it wasn't a Grey – it was something... else. Was it an undiscovered animal? An alien scout drone? An interdimensional glitch? An escaped lab experiment? An ultraterrestrial? Or maybe the collective teenage weirdness of 1977 Dover somehow manifested a temporary Tulpa? The LACK OF A DEFINITIVE ANSWER keeps the case alive and feeds the idea that localized weirdness is dismissed because it doesn't fit the narrative. It popped up, scared some kids, and vanished, like reality just burped and tried to pretend it didn't happen.
Keep your eyes peeled, lock your doors, and for f**k's sake, if something with orange glowing eyes waves you down, just. Keep. Driving.
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By ADDICTIVE UFO AND PARANORMAL STORIESAlright, buckle up, truth-seekers and bunker-dwellers! Welcome back to TRUE ALIENS SHOW, the only podcast digging so deep the mole people are getting nervous. This is your daily dose of HIGH STRANGENESS and unexplained weirdness that the powers that be don't want you to touch.
Tonight, we're cracking open a cold case from the creepy annals of American weirdness. Forget your quaint New England charm; we're going to Dover, Massachusetts, 1977, where teenage angst met something... else.
GET READY TO QUESTION EVERYTHING! Three terrified teenagers! A creature description that sounds like something coughed up from a dimension humanity was never meant to see! GLOWING ORANGE EYES! Was it a cryptid, an alien, or just the world glitching out for 48 hours in one sleepy town? Find out what happened when the SPINDLY-LIMBED FUCKNNUGGET came to call!
Let's rip this thing open.
It all went down in Dover, Massachusetts, on April 21st and 22nd, 1977. Three separate sightings within roughly 24 hours turned a normal town into a HIGH STRANGENESS hotspot.
First up, seventeen-year-old Bill Bartlett is driving with friends on Farm Street when his headlights catch something perched on a stone wall. It was small, maybe four feet tall, with a disproportionately large, watermelon-shaped head on a thin neck, connected to a spindly, skinny body with long, tendril-like limbs. The skin was hairless and pinkish-beige. The kicker? Two huge, round, lidless eyes glowing bright ORANGE. No nose, no ears, no mouth visible – just those eyes staring back. Bartlett rightfully floored it, genuinely terrified. Later, he drew that now ICONIC SKETCH.
Just a couple of hours later that same night, fifteen-year-old John Baxter was walking home about a mile away. He saw a figure he thought was a friend, called out, but it stopped. As he got closer, he saw something very similar to what Bartlett described: short, thin arms (maybe wrapped around a tree), a large head, and big dark eyes (he didn't report the glow). Feeling that primal "WRONG!" sensation, Baxter booked it and got a ride home. Corroboration, baby!
The next day, eighteen-year-old Abby Brabham was driving with a friend near the first sighting area. Her friend missed it, but Abby spotted it standing by the road. She described a creature with a large, egg-shaped head, hairless pale skin, and big GREEN eyes this time. It was just standing there, staring straight ahead, seemingly oblivious, before she drove past.
Three credible witnesses, three sightings in 24 hours, and then... nothing. It vanished. Police reports went nowhere – just standard procedure when s**t gets weird and there's no body count. Enter cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who interviewed the witnesses, found them credible, and dubbed it the "DOVER DEMON". He leans towards an unknown animal or something extradimensional.
There was ZERO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE left behind – no footprints, hair, or slime. For high-strangeness events, sometimes the lack of trace is part of the phenomenon. The witnesses weren't known hoaxers or drug users; they just wanted to be left alone.
The Dover Demon is a CRYPTOZOOLOGY CLASSIC and a prime example of a high-strangeness event with credible witnesses but zero physical proof. It wasn't Bigfoot, it wasn't a Grey – it was something... else. Was it an undiscovered animal? An alien scout drone? An interdimensional glitch? An escaped lab experiment? An ultraterrestrial? Or maybe the collective teenage weirdness of 1977 Dover somehow manifested a temporary Tulpa? The LACK OF A DEFINITIVE ANSWER keeps the case alive and feeds the idea that localized weirdness is dismissed because it doesn't fit the narrative. It popped up, scared some kids, and vanished, like reality just burped and tried to pretend it didn't happen.
Keep your eyes peeled, lock your doors, and for f**k's sake, if something with orange glowing eyes waves you down, just. Keep. Driving.
#DoverDemon #TrueAliensShow #HighStrangeness #Cryptozoology #Alien #UFO #Paranormal #Unexplained #Massachusetts #1977 #LorenColeman #BillBartlett #WeirdNews #Conspiracy #Cryptid #WTF #AlienEncounter #SpindlyLimbed
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