Lovecraft mentioned of a beast that's appeared several times in the Bible, this is a God of Philistine origin. It is commonly believed that Dagon was represented as half-man half-fish entity that's somewhat identified with Oannes; a Babylonian deity thats also known as the Lord of the Waves. Oannes is represented as a human from the upper part of the body, fish-like as to the lower. From this it may well be inferred that Dagon was a fish-god, as Dagon seems to have been the foremost deity of such maritime cities as Azotus, Gaza. According to an old Phoenician legend, Dagon was one of the four sons born of the marriage of Anu, the lord of heaven, with his sister, the earth.

The Bible mentioned that the Philistines took the Ark of Covenant and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. When the Philistines took the ark, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it in front of the deity, and when the priests guarding the temple of Ashdod arose early the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face upon the earth before the ark of the Lord. And these priests took Dagon, and set him in his place again. When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord again; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. It seems that the power of the Ark had shattered the hands of Dagon; as the Ark of the Lord shall be housed before none other god. Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod till this day.

Probably God was angered by the people of Ashod for placing the Ark of the Lord before Dagon that it resulted in the destruction of Ashod. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for His hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

When I first came up with the design for the head of this creature; it was intended to be fitted onto the body of a monster known as Grendel; the monstrous creature in the Epic Beowulf, which accounts for the scaly body of the creature in the pic as Grendel is more likely a sea-dwelling monster. But when the picture was completed, my mind kept drawing me to a description that I've came across about this mysterious creature that's mutilating the livestocks in South America.

When I first came to know about this creature that terrorised the people in New Jersey Pinelands areas, I realised that one of the picture I've drawn several years back fitted the description of the Jersey Devil.

The origin of this winged monster dates back to about 1735 in a place known as Leeds Point, New Jersey; that is why it is also known as the Leeds Devil. There's actually a rather popular picture of the Jersey Devil that was illustrated by a newspaper artist in 1909 in which the sketch of the creature followed closely the verbal account of one Mrs Nelson Evans of Gloucester City in New Jersey. She describe it as about 6 feet tall with head like a collie dog and the face of a horse and it walked on its hind legs which were like those of a crane but it ended in hooves. It had a lone neck and bat-like wings with front paws that's similar to a cougar. I find the idea of a crane-like hind-legs rather whimsical for it can never support the weight of that body, not mention walk upright.

There were many versions that attempt to explain the origin of the Jersey Devil. One of this story regards a Mrs Leeds who lived in Estelville. She was said to be skilled in witch-craft and well-versed in the occult. It is said that she fell in love with the enemy; this is a British soldier during the Revolutionary war who was wounded and stumbled into the house of the widowed Mrs Leeds. She nurse him to health but was cursed by townsfolk for her actions. She was in love with this British soldier and uses her Wiccan knowledge to protect him when he re-joined the war.

In the evening of April 21, 1977 a bizarre incident took place in a remote area along the road in Dover, Massachusetts. While driving home with two other friends, a teenager name Bill Bartlette spotted something weird along the driver's side of the road. He saw a creepy creature that was crouching beneath a low wall of stones alongside the road, it was alerted by the headlight of Bartlette's car.

As the lidless eyes of the creature met with Bartlette's; he was momentarily dazed and swirled his car a little which awakened both his friends who had dozed off at the rear seat. The creature was motionless for seconds before scurrying off just like if you were fast-forwarding a scene on the VCR. It's movements were so swift that within seconds it has scrambled away into the darkness.

The two friends with Bartlette did not see the creature but testified that Bartlette appeared visibly shaken after the incident. With the vivid memory of the encounter in mind; Bartlette made an attempt to put down in pictorial form the eerie image of what he had saw earlier that day at the suburb of Boston.

Bartlette's picture showed a unrecognisable animal with two large, distinctive round lidless eyes that seems to illuminate with a bright orangey colour. The slander creature had no particular facial features like nose, ears or mouth and it was almost hairless with a peach-coloured textured skin. It's clawed fingers and toes were said to be exceptionally thin and long to the extent that it was able to wrap around the boulders that it was crouching on. Bartlette estimated the creature to be round five feet tall. The creature was also described as having a large head and the sinuous forehead resembled that of a water-melon.

The same night the strange entity was also witnessed by John Baxter just hours after Bartlette's sighting. What Baxter saw under the pale moonlight was probably the similar creature but he described it as walking on two legs and was probably about to climb up a tree like most simian creature would as it had its fingers twined around the tree trunk; but Baxter was not waiting around to find out. When asked to produce a sketch of the thing he had saw; the likeliness of what he had drawn produced uncanny resemblance to the picture drawn by Bartlette. Due to its creepy and demonic appearance the creature later came to be known as the Dover Demon.

Skeptics who try to offer an answer to what was witnessed by the guys suggested that it could be some sort hairless marsupial that had escaped from the zoo. Others theorised that it might have been an unknown species of hairless simian lurking in the Dover woodlands.

The description given of the Dover Demon presented a remarkable resemblance to the race of aliens that is known as the Greys. It is therefore also possible that the demon could have been some genetic experiment that went awry and had somehow managed to escape its captor. It has been widely speculated that there are experiments being conducted on captured Grey aliens that had crash landed on earth in the highly secretive compound that is underground based. The Dover Demon is in actual fact a hybrid of the Grey and some animal of the marsupial family, possibly an Opossum which accounds for its lithe and nimble movements; and this will also explained its long, slander toes and fingers which are usual to these mammals.

When the public and media were alerted of the sightings of this creature; it not only generated widespread interests but they have also given off the whereabout of the creepy fugitive. Officials from the secret base had also discreetly launched its mass hunt for the escapee and tracked it down to Dover, it was of course captured and security for the Dover Demon was considerably tightened ensuring no repetition of such incident. The whole episode remains a mystery till this day as everything pertaining to the incident was dealt with top secrecy by these elusive officials. It will likely remain so as the chances of the Dover Demon escaping from the compound again is very slim and it has never been seen since.