 The Davenport Demon It was the year 1964 in Davenport, Iowa a decent-sized city. It lies on the Mississippi River I've only heard about the events evolving this demon from people in the area and from a few miscellaneous newspaper clippings that made their way to Nebraska during the summer of 1964 a couple was driving along the Mississippi River on S. Concord Street at night around 11 p.m As they were driving the woman a miss Clarissa Bell pointed out something weird in the river water Almost immediately after something horrendous reared from the water and raced across the road as Put by Clarissa Bell when interviewed a few weeks after the second sighting when it began to be taken seriously by the media The couple barely had time to make out what it was and the man a mr. Sampson Brown slammed on the brakes They stopped and thought that they'd hit whatever it was Clarissa Bell terrified yet stayed in the car as Sampson Brown got out to check it out While the car had been splashed with river water It was undamaged and they returned to town only mentioning it is an oddity to their friends it was in late winter of 1969 that the second reported sighting of the demon was made in This instance the demon was seen by a married couple Jolene and Hank Miles and their friend whose name has been forgotten to time It was once again by the river this time on River Drive on the way home from Credit Island Park The demon emerged from the river's icy surface in a sudden surprise lunch Landing on the southbound lane right in front of the car Jolene Miles had when the couple reported it to the newspapers Described it as ugly and vile almost like a disfigured raccoon with the most god-forsaken tentacles Surprisingly unless a frequent reader of such newspaper reports where witnesses that were together frequently contradict one another Hank Miles had left out the comparison to a raccoon and Described it as almost catfish like except with tentacles instead of fins This description was the same as their friends except in that simple comparison in the 1970s reports grew of this event until a climactic encounter in the fall of 1975 unlike most of the reports this one was not involving a car But rather a private boat ramp in Davenport Harbor Lee Anderson and his current mistress Brittany Cooper were putting their boat into the harbor at night When the water began to emit a strange light as if there were searchlights underneath the surface They were close together when suddenly the boat tipped sending them both into the water Barely escaping Lee Anderson reported that his mistress had fallen in and drowned and That a thing with tentacles had attacked the two of them He had burn marks on the left side of his body which he explained by saying he was electrocuted When the body of the mistress was found it was burned completely to an almost Unrecognizable point except for the face First deadly encounter led to Lee being charged with manslaughter Despite his reporting it as an animal attack and the wounds being nearly impossible for the man to make without specific equipment Lee Anderson was sentenced to prison He committed suicide a week after being let out on parole Throughout the 1970s several more reports were made By the 1980s when the last major newspaper report on the Davenport Demon was made Which was an event similar to the first death from the Demon it had become a local legend To this day it is unknown if the Davenport Demon is real or if it was simply a scapegoat for Accidents and murders while there are some people who claim to have seen it still None of these stories have been widely publicized and have merely been mentioned by people who live in Davenport