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Driving along, his car's headlights suddenly illuminated a peculiar entity picking its way along a stone wall at the side of the road. As can be seen from the picture that Bill later prepared, which is reproduced here, the creature had a large head, shaped like a water melon, with two big, protruding eyes that glowed orange, but it did not seem to have a mouth, nose or ears. Its body was small, its neck and limbs were long and thin, and its fingers and toes were slender and supple. The creature appeared to be hairless, but it's peach-colored skin was rough in texture. It stood about 1 meter (3-4 feet) high, and was observed only by Bill (his two friends were not looking in the right direction to see it). Less than two hours later later, the sighting would be substantiated by an entirely independent eyewitness. 15 year old John Baxter was walking home little more than a mile from the locality of Bill's encounter when he saw a strange figure coming towards him. After receiving no reply when he called out to it, John paused, and as he did so the figure ran away down a gully. John chased after it and when he was about 9 meters away, he could see it clearly, standing upright on its hind legs and gripping the trunk of a tree. When he spied its brightly glowing eyes staring at him from an otherwise featureless face, however, John decided to let caution supersede curiosity and he walked briskly back to the road. Once he reached home, he too made a visual record of what he had witnessed, and as can be seen here, his wholly independent illustration corresponds very closely indeed with Bill's. At around midnight on April 22, "The Dover Demon" was seen again. 15 year old Abby Brabham while being driven home by Will Taintor, 18, who only glimpsed it briefly. Abby's description matched those of Bill and John in every respect except one: when she observed it, the eyes were glowing green, not orange. If the descriptions of it are accurate-and they are certainly very consistent-the Dover Demon does not resemble any known terrestrial species. Could it have been extra-terrestrial, ultra-terrestrial or as its name suggests, supernatural? Interestingly the Cree nation of eastern Canada
speak of a race of pygmy entities called the Mannegishi, who delight in
playing tricks upon travellers, much like the little people
in European myth. The Mannegishi have round heads, long thin legs, arms
with six fingers on each hand. Excluding the finger
count discrepancy, this description is reminiscent to the Dover Demon.
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