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Has a
Mythical Beast Turned Up in Texas?
Phylis
Canion lived in Africa for four years.
She's been a hunter all her life and
has the mounted heads
of a zebra and other exotic animals
in her house to prove it.
But the
roadkill she found last month outside
her ranch was a new one even for her,
worth putting in a freezer hidden from
curious onlookers: Canion believes she
may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking
chupacabra.
Phylis
Canion holds a photo of what she is
calling a Chupacabra in Cuero, Texas,
Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. She found the
strange looking animal dead outside
her ranch and thinks it is responsible
for killing many of her chickens. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay)
"It
is one ugly creature," Canion said,
holding the head of the mammal, which
has big ears, large fanged teeth and
grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.
Canion
and some of her neighbors discovered
the 40-pound bodies of three of the
animals over four days in July outside
her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast
of San Antonio. Canion said she saved
the head of the one she found so she
can get to get to the bottom of its
ancestry through DNA testing and then
mount it for posterity.
She suspects,
as have many rural denizens over the
years, that a chupacabra may have killed
as many as 26 of her chickens in the
past couple of years.
The chupacabra is a cryptid said to
inhabit parts of the Americas. It is
associated particularly with Puerto
Rico (where it was first reported),
Mexico, and the United States, especially
in the latter's Latin American communities.
The name translates literally from the
Spanish as "goat sucker".
It comes from the creature's reported
habit of attacking and drinking the
blood of livestock, especially goats.
Physical descriptions of the creature
vary. Sightings began in Puerto Rico
in the early 1990s, and have since been
reported as far north as Maine, and
as far south as Chile. Though some argue
that the chupacabras may be real creatures,
mainstream scientists and experts generally
contend that the chupacabra is a legendary
creature, or a type of urban legend.
It is supposedly a heavy creature, about
the size of a small bear with a row
of spines reaching from the neck to
the base of the tail.
The body
of what Dave's Pawn Shop, 216 S. El
Paso, claims is a Chupacabra lies in
a case at the Downtown shop.
Chupacabra attacks are often paralleled
with UFO sightings, which has caused
some to identify the creature as extra-terrestrial
or an alien pet. Although UFO sightings
are considered fodder for tabloids,
attacks by chupacabras feature as legitimate
news in many Spanish-speaking countries.
In
an encounter that occurred in Arizona,
the creature entered a house through
an open door, then mumbled and gestured
to the home owner, before fleeing. A
couple hours later the man heard his
son screaming, as he entered his son's
bedroom, the creature was standing on
his son's chest. The creature exited
the bedroom through an open door and
flew out a window. In this encounter
the police were called by the '911'
dispatcher. --
http://www.unknown-creatures.com/chupacabra.html
Chupacabras
have been described as similar in appearance
to gargoyles, so it has been theorized
that the creatures were seen in Medieval
Europe, and possibly taken to South
America on board Spanish galleons. According
to this theory, gargoyles were carved
to resemble chupacabras, to keep the
public (and sometimes believed to keep
evil spirits) afraid of any place with
gargoyles.
Some cryptozoologists speculate that
chupacabras are alien creatures. Chupacabras
are widely described as otherworldly,
and, according to one witness report,
NASA may be involved with this particular
alien's residency on earth. The witness
reported that NASA passed through an
area in Latin America, with a trailer
that was thought to contain an incarcerated
creature.[citation needed] There have
also been UFOs seen where chupacabras
have been at the same time on occasion.
Others speculate that the creature is
an escaped pet of alien visitors that
wandered off while its master was visiting
Earth. The Chupacabra does have a slight
resemblance to the Greys, which could
mean that they are somehow related.
Some people in the island of Puerto
Rico believe that the chupacabras were
a genetic experiment from some United
States' government agency, which escaped
from a secret laboratory in El Yunque,
a mountain in the east part of the island
when the laboratory was damaged during
a severe storm in the early 1990s. The
US military have had a large presence
across Puerto Rico since the 1930s,
with bases on the island used as Research
and Development facilities (amongst
other things) up to the present day.
The lethal agent orange chemicals were
tested by the US on the crops of Puerto
Rico in widespread crop-spraying operations,
all performed without notifying local
people or farmers, and the efficacy
and safety of contraceptive medicines
was also secretly tested on islanders
who had no knowledge of their 'guinea
pig' status at all. ("UFO's Strangest
Mysteries", Discovery Science)
This may explain some of this alleged
paranoia.
Another possibility would involve giant
vampire bats of which a few fossils
have been found in South-America.
Most believe that the Chupacabra is
most likely to be a close relative of
the Aye-aye, a primate that is Madagascar's
equivalent to the racoon in appearance
and woodpecker ecologically. Like the
vampire bat, the Chupacabra evolved
to feed on the blood of other animals.
El
Chupacabra is being blamed for a series
of "gruesome and savage murders"
of 19 Ducks And 12 Geese in San Juan.
The attacks have all allegedly coincided
with local UFO sightings which has lead
some locals to believe El Chupacabra
is actually an alien lifeform.
According
to the article:
Elusive
Beast Alleged Culprit In Deaths Of 19
Ducks And 12 Geese
(March
1, 2007) In the sleepy town of San Juan,
located within the area of San Antonio
(Region V), gruesome and savage murders
have occurred. The mythical “chupacabra”
(literally, “sucking goat”)
is blamed by locals as the killer of
the farm animals.
The mysterious
attacks are similar to those in Placilla
and Huallipén, where hens and
rabbits fell victim to the bizarre slaughter
and predation, which left the farm animals
dead and sucked completely dry of blood.
However, some are cautious about blaming
this supernatural being.
“It
was strange what happened,” said
owner of the fowl Eva Pou. “But
I think it must have just been an attack
by dogs.”
Past
eyewitness accounts of this creature
describe it being approximately 1.20
meters in height, furry, and with a
round, bald head.
They
say it is a bloodthirsty hybrid from
hell - part reptile, part kangaroo,
part vampire bat - designed to drain
its victims entirely of blood. Is it
an alien invasion, a secret genetic
experiment gone wrong, or a creation
of the human psyche? NGC examines the
evidence with believers and skeptics
alike as science and the supernatural
collide in search for answers to the
ultimate question: Is it Real?
ARTICLES
Puerto
Rican Policeman Chases Chupacabra
The Why? Files
In October
1995, Luis Guadaloupe walked into his
local police station in the town of
Canovanas on the island of Puerto Rico
in the Caribbean. He had an unusual
story to report to the police - whilst
going about his normal business for
the day, he had a strange experience.
Luis had encountered a bizarre creature
-
"It was really ugly, like a demon,
around four to five feet tall with huge
elongated red eyes. It moved like a
kangaroo - jumping on its powerful back
legs..." For the full article,
Visit
here.
Chile
Suffers First Chupacabras Attack
Discovery.com August 28, 2000
By Marc Herman
Iquique,
Chile: Last April, farmers in Calama,
a mining town in the heart of Chile's
harsh northern desert, awoke to find
their goats and sheep dead in their
pens. An unidentified predator had mutilated
the animals' necks. By the time the
television cameras arrived, the rumor
of a Chupacabra attack, Chile's first,
was spreading fast through the slender
Pacific nation.
Bigfoot
With Teeth?
A mix of vampire and marauding, furry
lizard, the Chupacabra has become one
of the most common beasts studied under
the general heading of cryptozoology,
the study of animals that may or may
not be real. No one has ever caught
a Chupacabra, though plenty of eyewitnesses
claim to have seen one. Descriptions
vary. Eyewitness accounts during a rash
of alleged attacks in 1995, many in
Puerto Rico, described the animal as
having a "reptilian body, oval
head, bulging red eyes, fanged teeth
and long, darting tongue," according
to a report at the time in the daily
San Juan Star.
That
same description has weathered decades
of scrutiny. First appearing in the
late 1960s, alleged Chupacabra attacks
picked up markedly in the mid-'90s,
moving America's leading cryptozoologist,
Loren Coleman, to term the animal "the
single most notable cryptozoological
phenomenon of the past decade."
Coleman is the author of Cryptozoology
A to Z.
"What's
unique about the Chupacabra is that
it's crossing languages, which I think
shows how small our world is getting,"
says Coleman, reached by phone from
his home in Portland, Maine. "It's
sort of like Jennifer Lopez, kind of
cross-cultural."
JOHNSON
COUNTY--A strange animal in one Arkansas
county has residents looking for answers
as to what it is. The Arkansas Game
and Fish Commission say it's a dog,
but some residents disagree.
This
pictures was taken October fourth, one
day after the animal was shot. The photographer
sent them to the Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission for an answer, and they got
one. But many residents say they're
not convinced it's a dog with a severe
case of mange.
Some
people have been digging for another
explanation, and they think they found
it in the urban legend of Chupacabra.
According to the Hispanic legend, Chupacabra
can come in three forms one of which
is a strange breed of wild dog, mostly
hairless with pronounced eye sockets,
teeth and claws.
But some
people say that idea is far fetched.
"It's
a funny colored dog so got to calling
it a dog from hell. It's just a regular
dog," Johnson County resident Gerry
McCartney said.
McCartney
says the idea that's it's anything other
than a dog is off the wall, because
she's had a run-in with the animal in
her yard.
"I
came out one night and shot up in air
to get it gone off my dogs," she
said.
People
in the county continue to talk of this
animal although its dead, they're confident
others are alive.
Some
people say it's a cross between a wild
dog and coyote, but others say there's
an air of mystery surrounding the animal.
Some even think it has characteristics
of a Chupacabra, an animal from a Hispanic
legend.
The Mysterious animal
has been blamed for attacking and killing
a Doberman pinscher and a Rottweiler
the past couple of years.
Expert:
"Hybrid Mutant" Is Just A
Wild Dog
Turner, ME (AHN) - An expert who examined
the remains of the mysterious animal
found dead over the weekend, believes
it was just a wild dog. Resident from
Litchfield, Sabattus, Greene, Turner,
Lewiston and Auburn have complained
for years about the mysterious animal
with its chilling monstrous cries.
Loren
Coleman, a Portland author and cryptozoologist,
said though he didn't know for sure
what the animal was, but based on his
examination of its remains, "I
think this dead animal is a chow or
chow-mix, a relatively small dog, that
was feral, which is unusual for that
area," he told the Sun Journal
newspaper.
State
wildlife biologists and local animal
control officers had declined to go
to Turner to examine the remains of
the animal, which was found Saturday
near power lines along Route 4.
The animal
was apparently hit by a car while chasing
a cat.
The carcass
had was photographed and inspected by
several people who live in the area
and a number of speculations were made
over the identity of the creature.
Some
said it was simply a dog. Others said
it was a goat-sheep hybrid. Still others
weighed in that the creature might have
been a Tasmanian devil, a dingo, a wolf
or coyote and other more outlandish
theories involved mutations and extraterrestrials.
By the
time Coleman arrived on Wednesday only
bones and skin of the mystery creature
were left on the spot. The internal
organs and skull were gone.
Nonetheless,
he came away with a paw and other body
parts to be examined later. Another
paw has been taken by the Sun Journal,
which is exploring the possibility of
conducting DNA tests.
Texas
Farmer Claims He Caught Legendary 'Chupacabra'
POSTED: 7:33
am PDT August 25, 2005
UPDATED: 8:17 am PDT August 25, 2005
COLEMAN,
Texas -- A Texas farmer may have found
what some would call a "chupacabra,"
a legendary animal known for sucking
the blood out of goats.
Trap
Catches Strange Animal
Reggie
Lagow set a trap last week after a number
of his chickens and turkeys were killed.
What
he found in his trap was a mix between
a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo.
Video
che mostra le presunte immagini del
chupacabras, uno degli esseri più
conosciuti e misteriosi all'interno
della criptozoologia. Le ... all »
testimonianze di sicuro non mancano,
ma ciò nonostante le autorità
scientifiche negano qualsiasi alone
di mistero attorno a questo essere.
Ma chi è questo Chupacabras e,
soprattutto, quali sono le ipotesi sulla
sua natura ?
Chupacabra
Description
There are several variations of what
people believe the Chupacabra to look
like. The current theory is that it
is a bipedal creature around four to
five feet tall described as a sort of
a cross between a 'Grey' alien humanoid,
mainly because the shape of its head
and eyes, and what most witnesses describe
as the body of a bipedal, erect dinosaur.
It has two small arms with a three-fingered
clawed hand, two strong hind almost
reptilian legs, again with three claws
and spinal quills down its back, which
it uses to fly. This appears to enable
it to run quickly and leap over trees.
Its head is oval in shape and has an
elongated jaw. Two red or black beady
eyes have been reported, together with
small holes in the nostril area, a small
slit-like mouth with fang-type teeth
protruding upwards and downwards from
the jaw. It appears to have strong course
hair all over its body; and whilst most
observers claim the hair is black, it
has the remarkable ability to change
colours at will, almost like a chameleon.
In the dark, it will change to black
or a deep brown colour; in a sunlit
area surrounded by vegetation, it changes
to green, green-grey, light brown or
beige. Some believes it to be a half-man,
half-beast vampire, while still others
say it is similar to a panther with
red eyes and the tongue of a snake.
Another version is that it hops like
a kangaroo and smells like sulfur.
In the
recent past, the Chupacabra craze has
grown and, capitalizing on popular culture,
street vendors along the U.S.-Mexico
border began selling Chupacabra T-shirts,
piñatas and porcelain figurines
resembling the lizard-like creature.
An episode of the popular science fiction
television series the “X-Files”
even had a Chupacabra episode.
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