The Dover Demon: The Long-Fingered Creature Seen Crawling Along Massachusetts Roads

Cryptid Files · Sep 17, 2026 · 27m · transcript

In April 1977, three reported encounters on the back roads of Dover, Massachusetts, created one of New England’s most enduring cryptid cases. Within roughly twenty-five hours, teenagers Bill Bartlett, John Baxter, and Abby Brabham described a small, hairless or apparently hairless figure with an oversized head, thin limbs, long fingers, and reflective eyes. Bartlett’s drawing, made after a six-second glimpse from a moving Volkswagen on Farm Street, became the image most associated with the creature later called the Dover Demon.

The case appears stronger than a single strange sighting. Baxter…