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Translated literally from Spanish as "goat-sucker" (compare with chotacabras, the nightjar), the chupacabra is said to attack small livestock and drink their blood. Descriptions of this creature vary, and no one has produced undisputable evidence of its existence.
Some believe the chupacabra myth is a product of " mass hysteria" while others feel this is a weak explanation for the real dead animals resulting from the creature's unexplained attacks. There are many eye-witness accounts dating back many years.
A famous appearance in the city of Varginha in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is often attributed to the chupacabra. However, regarding this particular incident, most people associate the being with an unidentified extraterrestrial rather than a chupacabra, since no attack was reported. See Varginha incident for more details.
Semi-mythical creatures similar to the Chupacabra include the Jersey Devil, the Skunk ApeMyakka Skunk Ape photo of Sarasota County, FL The Skunk Ape is a supposed type of Bigfoot from Florida, USA, named so because it carries with it the odor of rotten sewage. Many photos taken of the skunk ape look suspiciously like Orangutans that inhabit p of south FloridaFlorida is a southern state in the United States. It is known as the Sunshine State. Florida" is a Spanish adjective which means "flowery". It was discovered by Spanish explorers during the Easter season, which is called Pascua Florida in Spanish. Postal, West VirginiaWest Virginia is a state of the United States, known as The Mountain State. While many consider it part of the South, many in the state's Northern Panhandle feel a greater affinity for Pittsburgh, while those in the Eastern Panhandle feel a greater affini's MothmanMothman was the name given to a strange creature sighted multiple times in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia, on the border with Ohio between November 1966 and November 1967. Several observers described the creature as a man-sized beast with wings, and the Monkey-man of New DelhiThe Monkey Man of New Delhi was a phenomenon that surfaced in New Delhi in 2001. Overview In May 2001, reports began to circulate in the Indian capital New Delhi of a strange monkey-like creature that was appearing at night and attacking people. Eyewitnes.
A few pictures which may be hoaxes (link below) exist of the Chupacabra.
The legend of El Chupacabras, as it was known in Spanish, started to grow in about 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi, when Puerto RicanPuerto Rican can refer to anybody who was born in or whose ancestors are from Puerto Rico. It can also refer to something from Puerto Rico, such as " Puerto Rican Rum". It should be noted that even though Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States an newspapers El VoceroEl Vocero is a Puerto Rican newspaper that is published in the Puerta de Tierra barrio, in the city of San Juan. Published since the 1970s, El Vocero was at first the third of the four large Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing El Mundo and El Nuevo Dia (then and El Nuevo Dia began reporting the killings of many different types of animals, such as birds, horses, and, as its name implies, goats. While at first it was suspected that the killings were done randomly by some members of a satanic cult, eventually these killings spread around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life. The killings had one pattern in common: Each of the animals found dead had two punctured holes around their necks.
Some witnesses reported seeing a small, dark or green figure around the areas of the killings, giving police and news reporters the feeling that the chupacabras could, in fact, be an extra-terrestrial figure.
Soon after the animal deaths in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths began being reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, the United States and most notably, Mexico. Both in Puerto Rico and Mexico, El Chupacabras gained urban legend status. Chupacabra stories began to be released several times at American and Hispanic newscasts across the United States, and chupacabra merchandise, such as t-shirts and baseball hats, were sold.
It is possible that the animal deaths could have been produced by satanic worshippers or by disease. However, neither of those two theories were ever proven. No hard evidence of the deaths being caused by an extra-terrestrial or by a strange animal ever surfaced either, however.
Certain South American rain forest natives believe in "mosquito-man", a mythical creature of their folklore that pre-dates modern chupacabra sightings. The "mosquito-man" sucks the blood from animals through his long nose, like a big mosquito. Some say mosquito-man and chupacabra are the same.
In July of 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas killed a hairless, dog-like creature (the Elmendorf Creature) that was attacking his livestock. As of yet, no one has been able to determine just what the creature is with testing of the bones continuing at a university in California. In October of 2004 another animal was killed by a rancher in the same region, closely resembling the Elmendorf Creature. A third was spotted by the zoologist as she was on her way to identify the dead one.
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