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Dover Demon

For my last post I choose the Dover Demon because the story originates in Dover, Massachusetts and I'm from Massachusetts.

History

 The Dover Demon's story originates in 1977, April 21 in Dover Massachusetts a 17 yearold boy, William Bartlett claimed he saw a large-eye creature, with tendril-like fingers and glowing eyes on top of a broken wall on Farm street in Dover. On the same evening a 15 yearold boy, John Baxter reported seeing the same creture as William in the heavily wooded area on Miler Hill road. Lastly another 15 year old girl named Abby Brabham, claimed to have seen the creature the folowing night sitting upright on springdale avenue. After all of this all the teeneagers were told to sketch out what they had sawn and all drew very similiar pictures. The police of Dover just believed this was a bunch of high school kids playing a hoax on the town. Cryptolgist today say this creature could have been a foal or a moose calf. Further more, the Dover Demon did in fact go on and gain world wide attention and drew comparison to Bigfoot and the Locheness monster. The Dover Demon is not associated with aliens.

Physical Discription

The Dover Demon is described as looking "gray, except that it has skin of a rosy orange instead of sickly gray. The Dover Demon has a large head on a small, stick-like body. It can be bipedal, but it often travels on all fours or switches back and forth between crawling and walking. It has eyes that glow orande and green. It does not seem to wear any clothing unless the clothing fits tightly and is the same color as its body.

Current News today on the Dover Demon

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/29/decades_later_the_dover_demon_still_haunts/

 

Jersey Devil

Jersey Devil

Description 

The Jersey Devil originated in Southern New Jersey. The Cryptide is described as a flying biped with hooves. The most common discription of a New Jersey Devil is that it looks like a kangaroo, with a head of a bat, horns, giant bat wings, small arms with claws and a forked tail.

The New Jersey Devils

The New Jersey Devil is one of the most unique cryprides to me because it worked it's way into the pop culture of it's area. In the National Hockey League, new jersey's team is named after this cryptide. It really has become a cultural icon in the state.

Orgin of the Legend

There was a mother named Leeds who supposivley had 12 children. When she found out she was pregnant with her 13th child she said, it would be the devil. Mother Leeds is said to be a witch and her husband was the devil himself. The child is then born and changes form. The baby changes into the New Jersey Devil and then kills it's mom. It took place in Atlantic county, which is now New Jersey.

Skeptics

Skeptics believe the Jersey Devil is to be nothing more than just a made up fable, that English settlers told there children for entertainment. They came up with this conclusion because there are no bones or photos of the Jersey Devil and you can't even believe in the cryptide if you don't believe in the supernatural. The Jersey Devil is just famous because it was able to become popular among the culture it originated in.