The El Chupacabra in some areas of America's southern states is nothing new. In New Orleans the vampire like creature has been known as a Grunch since first sighted when German immigrants populated the area. A thriving population of Germans lived upriver from New Orleans, Louisiana. They were attracted to the area through pamphlets such as J. Hanno Deiler's "Louisiana: A Home for German Settlers" in the 1700's.

The creature was often describe as cattish or even goat -like and walked on two legs. It had large red glowing eyes and pointed ears. The smell was almost like that of a rotting corpse when near. And it killed chickens and small animals draining them of blood then leaving the corpses to rot away. In some accounts it is said to have resembled a hairless deformed dog with extra long back legs. When chased it would run off on all fours. But was often seen walking slowly on it's muscular hind legs or crouching before it leapt on it's prey.

Many in New Orleans today often ponder which came first the Chupacabra or the grunch? (Also See: El Chupacabra)The average New Orleanian often will tell you the Grunch has been around much longer then the Chupacabra. Often infesting swamps, parks and and wooded areas only to be discovered where man encroached upon them.

Devil Baby, The Grunch And The Undead

The voodoo tradition of the city's legend is that a Grunch is a New Orleans specific version of the bastard Vampire or Chupacabra. Some say the horrific Devil Baby lives on Grunch Road and is the leader of the Grunch. And is the actual real Louisiana El Chupacabra. Not unlike the Grunch he goes out and steal babies and cats and dogs to eat. Many believe he is the true fore father to all the Grunch that live today.

An old La Nouvelle-Orléans Voodoo Hoodoo tale states: Marie Laveau castrated the Devil Baby when he was born, she wanted him to produce no more of his kind. The two bloody testicles fell to the floor as she used a very sharp blade. Immediately they transformed into a male and female grunch. The grunch set upon the frail old woman and almost killed her. Other lurid tales tell of the Devil Baby growing up into manhood and attacking women and impregnating them with his spawn which were called by many ... Grunch (chupacabra's). They were true demonic vampire blood suckers and lived off of the blood of their victims alone.

The most wicked and evil New Orleans or Louisiana Vampire are said to have been infected by a bite of a Grunch. This particular type of Vampire must also sleep in the daylight hours but cannot be killed in the traditional way as the European Vampire can. They do not burn up in sunlight nor can a stake in the heart destroy them.

The Grunch-Vampire spawn buries itself each morning at dawn in the mud of the swamps that surround the city. And then only to rise up each night at sunset. An old tale in New Orleans is that if you see a Vampire, the Devil Baby , Vampires or a Grunch in daylight hours, then a great storm or hurricane is on it's way. Actual Grunch and Devil Baby sightings and reports became very common place in the weeks before Hurricane Katrina struck the city August 29th, 2005.

In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar Vampiristic creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some of the America's and their cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.

The notion is that the Grunch or Chupacabra was created and not born. It is said to be not alive and certainly not 100% dead.

Chupacabra News Stories

In July 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog-like creature, which was attacking his livestock. This animal, initially given the name the Elmendorf Beast, was later determined by DNA assay conducted at University of California, Davis to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange. In October 2004, two more carcasses were found in the same area. Biologists in Texas examined samples from the two carcasses and determined they were also coyotes suffering from very severe cases of mange. In Coleman, Texas, a farmer named Reggie Lagow caught an animal in a trap he set up after the deaths of a number of his chickens and turkeys. The animal was described as resembling a mix of hairless dog, rat, and kangaroo. Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the "critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash."

In April 2006, MosNews reported that the chupacabra was spotted in Russia for the first time. Reports from Central Russia beginning in March 2005 tell of a beast that kills by the animals and sucks out their blood. Thirty-two turkeys were killed and drained overnight. Reports later came from neighboring villages when 30 sheep were killed and had their blood drained. Finally, eyewitnesses were able to describe the chupacabra. In May 2006, experts were determined to track the animal down.

In mid-August 2006, Michelle O'Donnell of Turner, Maine, described an "evil looking" rodent-like animal with fangs that had been found dead alongside a road. The animal was apparently struck by a car, and was unidentifiable. Photographs were taken and witness reports seem to be in relative agreement that the creature was canine in appearance, but in widely published photos seemed unlike any dog or wolf in the area. Photos from other angles seem to show a chow- or akita-mixed breed dog. It was reported that "the carcass was picked clean by vultures before experts could examine it". For years, residents of Maine have reported a mysterious creature and a string of dog maulings.

In May 2007, a series of reports on national Colombia news reported more than 300 dead sheep in the region of Boyaca, and the capture of a possible specimen to be analyzed by zoologists at Universidad Nacional of Colombia.

In August 2007, Phylis Canion found three animals in Cuero, Texas. She and her neighbors purported to have discovered three strange animal carcasses outside Canion's property. She took photographs of the carcasses and preserved the head of one in her freezer before turning it over for DNA analysis. Canion reported that nearly 30 chickens on her farm had been exsanguinated over a period of years, a factor which led her to connect the carcasses with the chupacabra legend. State Mammologist John Young estimated that the animal in Canion's pictures was a Gray Fox suffering from an extreme case of mange. In November 2007, biology researchers at Texas State University–San Marcos determined from DNA samples that the suspicious animal was merely a coyote.

On January 11, 2008, a sighting was reported at the province of Capiz in the Philippines. Some of the residents from the barangay believed that it was the chupacabra that killed eight chickens. The owner of the chickens saw a dog-like animal attacking his chickens.

Video still of an alleged Chupacabra caught by a DeWitt County, Texas Sheriff's Deputy.On August 8, 2008, a DeWitt County deputy, Brandon Riedel, filmed an unidentifiable animal along back roads near Cuero, Texas on his dashboard camera. The animal was about the size of a coyote but was hairless with a long snout, short front legs and long back legs. However, Reiter's boss, Sherrif Jode Zavesky, believes it may be the same species of coyote identified by Texas State University–San Marcos researchers in November 2007.

DeWitt County Sheriffs Office video KTVT: Tuesday August 12, 2008  

So the next time your out alone in the dark in the southern part of the United States and you feel like your being watched, it might just be a grunch!

Also See: El Chupacabra

About Gene R. Hampton

Hampton is a Paranormal researcher who interest in crypto creatures has brought him to go out investigate first handed and explore the strange sightings that occur in the America's. With over 10 years in the field he has set out to track Bigfoot, Champ and many local strange and exotic creatures from across North and South America.

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