Gangrey
Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

The Monsters Among Us

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Hank Stuever: America's seeing monsters again, so Mommy needs to open the door a crack and leave the hallway light on:



1. Some sheriff's deputies in Cuero, Tex., released footage captured by one of their dash-cams on Aug. 8 of a . . . something (the legendary Mexican goat-sucker, el chupacabra?) running along a dirt road in broad daylight. This went along with reports (and pix!) of bodies of long-fanged, doglike creatures found in Texas. Weird!



2. A news cycle or two after the Texas chupacabra came the dead . . . something, allegedly a Bigfoot, discovered in the (cue banjo) backwoods of Georgia. Two men have pictures of it and say they've got the body, too. They held a news…

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