Other Humanoid · Dover, Massachusetts · 1977
MA-1977ID case-c5c2730520Added to map Nov 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jun 1977to the month
- Where
- Dover, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Three teenagers reported sighting a four-foot-tall creature with a large watermelon-shaped head, no ears, spidery limbs, and glowing eyes in Dover.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Dover, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 02030, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 1977
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-c5c2730520
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- San Antonio Express News, 1977-06-19
newspaper_ia · 1977-06-19
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Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.