{"id":573,"date":"2007-09-01T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/09\/01\/weird-beasties-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:25:03","slug":"weird-beasties-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/09\/01\/weird-beasties-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird beasties in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

two vaguely crypto-zoological happenings in Texas recently. first, there’s a giant spiderweb<\/a> being built near Dallas.
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\nwhat sinister motive could the spiders have for building such a thing? other than, you know, catching lots of Mosquitos.<\/p>\n

then there’s the growing trend of strange, hairless canines which may or may not be chupacabra.
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\npiecing together the legitimate news sources<\/a> with the crackpot blog posts<\/a>, one comes to the conclusion that there is an invasion of super-ugly giant Chihuahuas in south Texas. there was an outbreak in 2004 in Elmendorf dubbed the Elmendorf Beast, and another in July in Dewitt county. A rancher had most of the blood drained from her chickens so she retaliated by making commemorative Chupacabra t-shirts.<\/p>\n

the so-called "scientists" say they’re just mangy coyotes, but that’s so unentertaining that everyone ignores them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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