The Dover Demon - Part One

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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🕯️ THE DEVIL WITHIN: The Dover Demon — Part One: The Line Through the Woods Chapters 1–3 On the night of April 21st, 1977, three teenagers in Dover, Massachusetts witnessed something the town never wanted to explain — a pale, hairless, spindle-limbed creature with glowing eyes that traced a perfect, impossible line through the woods. In this first installment, we reconstruct the Demon’s eerie 25-hour migration using eyewitness accounts, contemporaneous reporting, and the poetic dread of Frost and Dickinson. What emerges is not a prank, not mass hysteria, but a pattern — a corridor the creature walked with unsettling purpose. 📌 CHAPTERS 1. The Mask of Gloom 2. Zero at the Bone 3. The Line Through the Woods 📣 CALLS TO ACTION 🔔 Follow & subscribe to The Devil Within 💬 Rate & review the show 📸 IG: @thedevilwithinpod 📧 Your theories: [email protected] 🎧 Explore the entire Evio Creative network 💼 SPONSORS 🧥 QUINCE Luxury essentials at affordable prices. Free shipping + 365-day returns: Quince.com/DEVILWITHIN 📱 MINT MOBILE Premium wireless for just $15/month. Switch and get free shipping: MintMobile.com/DEVILWITHIN 🛰️ EXPRESSVPN Protect your data & unlock global content. Get 3 months free: ExpressVPN.com/DEVILWITHIN 🌿 MOOD Premium THC-free gummies & botanicals delivered discreetly. 20% off: Mood.com/DEVILWITHIN 🐶 OLLIE DOG FOOD Real, fresh, human-grade meals for your dog. 50% off your first box: Ollie.com/IDES 🔥 MONARCH MONEY The only finance app Branden actually uses. Get 60% off your first year: Monarch.com/IDES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.8	The Mask of gloom.
1:19.7	One of Robert Frost's lesser-known little curses goes like this.
1:28.0	Those dark trees, the merest mask of gloom, that stretched away under the edge of doom.
1:35.8	He was writing about New England woods, in the abstract, of course, about youth and the terror of the future.
1:40.2	Not about anything that crawled out of the stone walls west of Boston.
1:54.6	But if you were driving down Farm Street in Dover, Massachusetts, on the night of April 21, 1977, those few lines would have felt less like poetry and more like a warning label.
2:03.7	Because what Bill Bartlett saw at the edge of his headlights that night, it didn't feel like a metaphor. It felt like something that had stepped out of a darkness older than electricity. Something that had been there long before
2:10.9	Dover had a name. Long before colonial stone walls carved up the woods like scars.
2:18.9	It felt like something patient, something watching, something that didn't intend to be seen.
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