The Dover Demon

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this super-sized October treat, we explore the legend of one of the United State's more elusive cryptids: the Dover Demon, who made a one-night-only appearance in 1977. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Written, Researched, and Hosted by Laurah Norton Engineered, Edited, Scored, and Produced by Maura Currie Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/OneStrangeThing

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where, thank goodness it's October.
0:31.2	Not to be overly dramatic, but we've been waiting.
0:34.8	Let's see.
0:36.0	Yep, precisely 11 months for this, and we're going to take full
0:40.9	advantage.
0:43.1	Now, we usually like to space out our creature features just a little bit.
0:48.5	Humans, after all, can be just as strange as beasts and aliens and blobs, but we feel that it would be remiss to
0:57.1	let the spookiest month of the year pass by without at least one cryptid in the mix.
1:04.5	And this little fella is one of our favorites.
1:07.9	It's singular amongst its brethren for a number of reasons.
1:12.3	It appeared only once for about 24 hours or so and was sighted on three separate occasions
1:19.1	in that time.
1:20.5	A thorough investigation into those sightings by police and a team of cryptozoologists,
1:27.3	Fortian specialists and UFOologists occurred
1:30.3	before the media ever caught wind of the creature.
1:36.3	Because it just so happened that one of the world's leading experts in the unexplained
1:43.3	Lauren Coleman was living just a few miles
1:47.1	away from the small town where the sightings occurred and overheard the locals talking about
1:53.7	it. We just can't pass up that kind of synchronicity. So let's take a little trip to New England, to Massachusetts to be precise, to Dover, where,
2:06.6	in 1977 things were a little, what was the teenage parlance back then?
2:12.6	Trippy.
2:14.6	Now, Dover is a very nice town, and not generally the kind of place you'd expect an outlandish,
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