Chupacabra
9/15/03

Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. Ekaj. These are all names that we are framiliar with. However, if you're in Mexico or Puerto Rico, no name strikes terror in the hearts of the locals like the feared "Goat Sucker", the Chupacabra. Yes the chupacabra, called "goat sucker" for reasons we'd rather not think about has long been the bane of Mexican existence...well, that and the water supply, the low wages and having to share your house with 42 of your closest relatives.

Since the 1960's, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico has witnessed some decidedly bizarre events featuring a mystifying entity called the chupacabra ("goatsucker"). Some people think it is a creature from the forest, some believe it is an alien, while others believe it is an experiment gone wrong that escaped from a lab. The chupacabra(s) have been blamed for the deaths of many dogs, cats, and livestock animals, even creatures as large as cattle and horses, whose grossly mutilated corpses have later been found drained of blood and occasionally missing various body organs that have been ripped out. In one strange incident from this particular category of chupacabras reports, however, the "victim" was a stuffed teddy bear, which the creature had reputedly destroyed at a house in Caguas before leaving behind a slimy puddle and a piece of rancid white meat on the window.

Attacks upon humans are described in a report by man by the name of Scott Corrales, called "The Chupacabra Diaries." At 6 am on March 26, 1995, Jaime Torres was walking through a field containing a flock of sheep owned by farmer Enrique Barreto or Orocovis when he allegedly saw a chupacabras lying along a branch on a nearby tree, looking down at him. According to Torres, it had a round head, dark gray face, elongated black eyes, delicate jaw and small mouth. Even more distinctive, was its pigmentation. Just like a surrealistic chameleon it changed color even as Torres stared at it, fluctuating from purple to brown to yellow. Yet its most bizarre talent was still to be revealed. Suddenly, as Torres continued to look up at it, the chupacabra's head began to rock from side to side and the creature emitted an eerie hissing sound, as it did so, Torres became very dizzy, almost fainting. Losing no time, the creature dropped down from the tree and rapidly disappeared through the undergrowth, leaving its queasy observer far behind.

In the same area as Torres's experience, a police officer had been investigating a dead sheep on Barreto's estate when he spied a bipedal creature, 3-4 feet tall (1 meter), with right orange-yellow eyes peering at him from a shadowy area nearby. When the officer attempted to pursue this apparent chupacabra, he was instantly overcome by an overwhelming feeling of nausea and headache that he was forced to abandon the chase and needed to be assisted by his partner back to their patrol car.

Another incident is the by Mrs. Quinones of Naranjito. She had recently seen a chupacabra the height of a three-year-old child, standing by some hedged. True to form, it's gaze cause her to feel so nauseous that she was unable to follow when it fled away. Based on numerous eyewitnesses, chupacabras' stand about 3-5 feet tall (1-1.5 meters), with large slanted eyes (sometimes said to glow orange or red), bare holes instead of lobed ears, tiny holes in place of true nostrils and a small lip-less mouth. It has thin arms with three clawed fingers on each hand and muscular legs with three clawed toes on each foot. Its furry body is gray mottled with dark blotches, and glowing spines run from the crown of its head down the entire length of its back and continuously change color.



The Chupacabra which translates from spanish to mean "Goat Sucker", was mainly know for being seen in Cerntral America, South America, and Puerto Rico, but has recently been being sighted in the southern U.S. . The animal shown in the image above is believed to be Chupacabra killed in Dequincy, Louisiana. Barbara Mullins took the photo and sent it in to the local news paper & the aricle they wrote on it reads as follows:

THE DEQUINCY NEWS vol 72, No.24 Sept. 25, 1996, Dequincy La. 70633

What is it? Mrs. Barbara Mullins took this photograph of an animal that apparently had been killed by a car on the Pearce road east of Temple-inland. It was the size of a very large dog and was covered with thick wooly hair. It had the general appearance of a dog, except for the face, which looked somewhat like that of a baboon. Was it a dog or some unidentified animal?

In the opinion of most, (mainly because of the face) this animal looks nothing like a dog. The sightings first started in the 1960s, when a farmer in south america discovered some of his goats, sheeps, and other farm animals had apperantly died from puncture holes in their necks where their blood had been drained completely. That night he heard something moving around outside so he looked out his window to investigate, what he seen was a creature with a large body, almost like that of a dog, small legs, no paws; feet instead, very thick dark colored hair, and the face of a baboon. From then on the sightings just increased, and started to spread through out North and South America. The older sightings are much more credible (1960s-1980s), the newer sightings have changed him into some kind of furry lizard with small wings, some people think the Chupacabra is some kind of alien, or even a government experiment! It's kind of hard to believe that the Chupacabra is some kind of government experiment. The animal killed in Dequincy might be a Chupacabra after hearing some of the old descriptions of it.


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