求鉴定 — found a scan of an old clipping about the "Enfield Monster", is this for real or fabricated

Was going through a box of my late grandfather's stuff in southern Illinois and there's a photocopied newspaper bit about something called the Enfield Monster, 1973. The clipping's water-stained so I can't read the masthead but the text describes a creature with three legs, short body, gray slick sk……