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Welcome back to our Mini Monster Series.

We here at Camp Monsters know that mysterious creatures are a year-round interest.

So we're making sure that you have a new monster in your feed every month

until our full season launches this September.

This month we're doing something a bit different.

Our friends over at West Elm, you know,

the ones with all the great furniture and home decor,

reached out and asked us if we could find out more about a creature that

washed up near their corporate headquarters in Brooklyn a few years ago.

We get requests like this all the time, but usually there just isn't enough substance to write about.

We can only turn up a rumor to something people have heard of but never seen.

This one was different.

In this case we found, well, you know, have to decide for yourself what to make of it.

We found enough. Enough to write about and enough to make you a little nervous

the next time you hear something scurry in the dark.

Maybe our source isn't reliable. Maybe it was just fear and imagination working together.

I hope it was. It's up to you what you believe now to explain away what you don't.

So gather round. Welcome to Camp Monster's latest mini-monster episode.

Imagine you're in Brooklyn, New York out for a late afternoon walk in the park along the East River.

Your mind is elsewhere. The work you need to do, the groceries you need to buy, the friend you've been meaning to call back.

You really ought to call him now. But then you catch something out of the corner of your eye right at the water's edge.

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