Paul McDevitt
Mystery mech
STRANGER things are unfolding in Rhode Island, where beachgoers stumbled across a mysterious structure buried in the sand just beyond the waterline. The large, eight-legged metal object resisted all efforts at removal by hand, giving residents plenty of time to cook up outlandish theories about its origin.
After several weeks (of mounting dread about an invasion of robotic sea spiders, we presume), Peter Brockmann, president of the East Beach Association, arranged for an excavator to come and dig the structure out. However, this has only raised more questions.
The prevailing theory was that East Beach was playing host…
