More Chupacabra Video As Reported Sightings Increase
This Halloween watch out for the legendary chupacabra, a dog like creature which sucks the blood from its victims in vampire-like fashion. Reports of sightings are on the rise, as travelers and farmers catch suspected chupacabra in the Americas.
There’s no time like Halloween for reports of legendary monsters to surface, and so recent sightings of the elusive chupacabra are all the news today. In one report, a video of this blood sucking beast was dispelled as being just an ordinary coyote with a bad hair day. A man in Texas took video after seeing a strange creature on a highway near Houston.
Chupacabra Capture?
Another man captured what he suspected was a chupacabra at his farm after some of his animals had been mysteriously killed. The chupacabra (or whatever it was) he trapped has been sent to Texas Wildlife Management for identification. Are increased reports of the sightings of this mythical creature an omen? The video below is of this Texas farmer who supposedly trapped the little blood sucker.
Other sightings have been reported, and YouTube has any number of videos reporting supposed chupacabras. One such video, which appears to be from Sonora Mexico, reveals two stalwart Mexican chupacabra hunters getting the pants scared off of them in 2006. Even if the mysterious creature does not exist, you could not prove it by these guys.
Legend
For those who do not know, the chupacabra is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas. The creature is supposed to be something of a cross between a dog, a rat, and a kangaroo, and one which sucks the blood of small prey like goats and chickens. Eyewitness sightings have been claimed from as early as 1990 from Puerto Rico to Maine, but as of yet no proof of their existence has come to light. In one Puerto Rico incident, which added greatly to the legend, 8 sheep were discovered dead from loss of blood via what appeared to be puncture wounds in their chests. An eye witness also claimed she saw the elusive monster in another reported attack where as many as 150 animals died similarly.
As far back as 1975, reports of El Vampiro de Moca (the vampire of moca, a town in Puerto Rico) have chilled the blood of small children and as we have seen in the video above, grown men. Chupacabra legend is now a world wide phenomena, as every year more supposed sightings arise on nearly every continent. The beast has now even been immortalized in the media too obviously. From episodes of Skooby-Doo (which is sort of like the two Mexican guys up there), to the X Files and beyond, people’s fascination with the creature continues to grow. The legend has come to resemble something akin to “the big foot” story, only for Mexico and the southwest.
I leave the reader with a video from the History Channel which supposedly solves the chupacabra mystery. Beyond the videos, there remains only the slightest idea in your mind, as to whether such things exist. How elusive would you be if you were a vampire? Happy Halloween, especially in the southwestern US and Mexico.
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Comment by Sofie Kutyna on 4 November 2009:
Interesting but disappointing. Like other recent articles, the journalist has confused this strange dog-like creature, that seems to have only recently appeared, with the very different creature that is called the Chupacabra and is the real legend. The latter is a large, aggresive, vampire-bat type creature, not like a dog at all. They are beoth being sighted in similar regions and both attack livestock, but otherwise they are very different. The sightings and information about the two should be kept separate!
Comment by Mihaela Lica on 5 November 2009:
I think this was just a pamphlet, Sofie.
Comment by Phil Butler on 5 November 2009:
Hi Sofie, I did not have room to describe all the identities of the creature. There is another called the Jersey Devil, which is like the giant bat you describe too. I want to believe there are creatures we have yet to discover, perhaps not as blood thirsty as the Chupacabra ios reported to be tho;)
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Comment by hyp3rcrav3 on 5 November 2009:
Using genetic DNA analysis, the chupacabra has been determined to be a cross breed hybrid of a coyote and a wolf. The surprise is that it is not sterile like a mule which is a cross between a horse and a donkey. Chupacabra are breeding. That itself is a mystery. We also don’t understand the blood lust.
I’ve never heard of chupacabra flying.
The Jersey Devil is apelike and probably more akin the Sasquatch. The Bigfoot Yeti is probably an ape on the same branch of the evolutionary tree of life as chimps, gorillas, and us. There is fossil evidence of an ape that supposedly died out fairly recently that appears very much like the descriptions of Yeti and could very easily have crossed the Bering Straights when we did. It was smart like we other great apes. It had lots of hair and it was large like Native-American Sasquatch legends describe. It is hairier than Neanderthal. It could have survived in isolated locations away from human competition.
I want to know what Nessie, Lake Champlain, et al are. Is she mammal, reptile,(not likely, too big for cold blood), a surviving dinosaur, or an undiscovered genus?
CNN once had good video of one’s head in a Turkish Lake. It blinked.
Comment by Phil Butler on 5 November 2009:
@ hype3rcrav3, Ahaaaa! I was right about the dog like thing! I would like to know about Nesse too.
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Comment by Moka Aono on 12 November 2009:
Some of this footage was very intresting, but i have seen some people try to pull off animals with mange as El Chupacabra. I had seen a report with a Black Bear with mange, and some reporters were trying to persuade readers that it was El Chupacabra, of all the nerve.