For many years, the Mexican
legend of the Chupacabras, a Spanish word for "goat sucker," was thought
only to be folklore. Who would actually believe that a large four-foot
tall creature, possibly from another world, would hunt livestock just to
drink their blood? The myth of the Chupacabras seemed
absurd.
However, in December of
1994, on the island of Puerto Rico, the age-old fable of the Chupacabras
became a reality. Animals were found dead and mutilated. Villagers
discovered cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, and ducks, with their corpses
drained of blood. Punctures marks ¼" to ½"
in diameter were dug into the tissue of the animal's head, piercing their
brains. Soon afterward, similar attacks were reported throughout
South America and Mexico. Along with the increasing
animal mutilations, sightings of the actual creatures themselves were reported.
Many eyewitnesses claimed that they saw what looked like a "Grey" alien,
a being from another world, with a short body, bulbous head, and large
thick black eyes. Observers, of the monster, described it as standing on
hind legs, and having "spines," down its back. Others noted wings
on the beast, and reported it flying through the night time sky. For many months, reports
of sightings of the dreaded Chupacabras grew and it's territory expanded
deeper into Mexico, and even into the United States. For example, in the Miami
neighborhood of Sweetwater, the creature attacked 69 farm animals. Across the country, in
Arizona, a May 12 headline in the Arizona Daily Star read "Goat sucker
fears cause nationwide panic." Three weeks later, a similar headline
in the Tucson Weekly reported "Hellmonkeys, Chupacabras Comes to the Sonoran
Desert." In California, a large
flying bat-like creature was spotted in Poway, a small town north of San
Diego. To this date, the sightings continue to spread further into
America, with reports now coming from Washington State. As a result of the
Chupacabra's apparent migration, more and more attention has been given
to the animal. So much, in fact, that tee shirts in the beast's image
have been produced and fake "Chupa" footprints are being sold. On the internet,
web pages have been produced to provide information, and in the media,
countless articles and reports continue to be written about it's existence.
Chupa madness has expanded to the point that, in late 1996, a festival
in Zapata Texas was held in the creature's honor But the fame of the Chupacabras
doesn't stop there. In early 1997, the television show " The X-Files,"
featured an episode concerning the nocturnal brute. On talk radio,
the weekly Art Bell show "Dreamland," has had numerous guests, including
UFOlogist Linda Molten Howe, updating the public on the growing situation
in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Bell has, on occasion, even played a song
dedicated to the Goat sucker. And so it goes on.
The attacks grow, sightings are expanding in numbers and the monster continues
to spread it's claw prints throughout North and South America. With
all of this excitement, the fever surrounding the creature has yet to reach
it's peak and the legend of the Chupacabra grows.
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