Way back in 1977, four teenagers from a high school in the eastern United States all reported seeing a mysterious non-human being late at night, something nobody else in their community had ever reported seeing, and something nobody had seen before or since.

Must we be forced to accept their account as a literal, unerring claim?

Or is it justified for us to open our minds to other potential explanations?

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the legend of the Dover Demon.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history,

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Come back with us now to 1977, when everything was just a little bit more awesome,

the clothes, the dancing, and of course the cryptids. Nowhere were the groovy cryptids

better exemplified than in Dover, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. In three separate incidents,

all late at night and spanning only 24 hours,

four teenagers all reported seeing the same bizarre unknown creature while they were either walking

or driving in the rural community. It was like some kind of alien monster, small but with a giant

head and tiny thin body. In each case, it vanished and was never

seen again, except in the memories of the teens and in the annals of urban legendary. What could it

have been? We are here today to do our best to answer that question. We have no physical

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