The Great Galactic Ghoul sits between Earth and Mars and subsists on a diet of terrestrial space probes. Mysterious losses of Marsbound spacecraft are traditionally attributed to the GGG.
Full picture of the Ghoul. Source: JPL Voyager Neptune Travel Guide.
Color picture of the Ghoul Source: Charles Kohlhase, JPL, www.charleysorbit.com. Original source:
The Great Galactic Ghoul was invented by Time Magazine reporter Donald
Neff in 1969 after the Mariner 7 anomaly
The original painting was by a NASA contractor, G.W. Burton, reportedly in
"Mariner VII Pre-Encounter Anomaly Analysis, Vol I," JPL605-230