It can walk on two feet but it prefers to run on all fours.
[*] The first sighting of the Dover Demon was in 1977.
Dover residents William Bartlett John Baxter separately reported seeing a creature with glowing eyes and long fingers.
The next night, Abby Brabham saw the beast on a different road in town.
The locations of the three sightings form a straight line.
[*] William, John, and Abby drew similar sketches of the creature they saw.
The skin is hairless and peach-colored and appears to have a rough texture.
Like wet sandpaper, Bartlett subsequently tells cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.
Unfortunately, neither of Bartletts companions sees the creature.
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The sighting lasts only a few seconds and, before Bartlett can speak, the car leaves the scene.
Then the creature is gone.
Bartlett drops his friends off and goes to his Walpole Street home.
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Visibly upset, he walks through the door and his father asks him whats wrong.
Bartlett relates the story and later sketches what hes seen.
Then, Baxter starts walking up the street on his way home.
Half an hour later, after he has walked about a mile, he observes someone approaching him.
Because the figure is short, Baxter assumes its an acquaintance of his, M.G.
Bouchard, who lives on the street.
John calls out and no response.
Baxter and the figure continue to approach each other until finally the latter stops.
Baxter then halts as well and asks, Who is that?
The sky is dark and overcast and he can only see a shadowy form.
As the figure runs, Baxter hears its footsteps on the dry leaves.
He follows the figure down the slope, then stops and looks across the gully.
The creatures body reminds Baxter of a monkeys, except for its dark figure-eight-shaped head.
He then walks very fast down the road to the intersection at Farm Street.
There, a couple passing in a car pick him up and drive him home.
[*] Here is John Baxters sketch of the creature he saw.
Notice how similar the two sketches are.
[*] Some people think the Dover Demon could be a Mannegishi, an animal in Ojibwa lore.
Mannegishi are a small, gangly race of trickster half-humans.
