WHAT IS THE CHUPACABRAS? - TEN YEAR STUDY RESULTS
An overview of a ten year study of the Chupacabras by Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo, of the Miami UFO Center has just come out. Notice in this article there is no mention of dog like creatures with mange. (See my previous post: A Contrast in Chupies)
The distinctive puncture wounds are mentioned:
"These attacks have left a toll of thousands of dead domestic animals such as chickens, ducks, doves, dogs, cats, goats pigs, and even cows were attacked by the Chupacabras, living them all without blood...all removed through a small puncture, usually around the neck of its victims. "It's hard to imagine foxes, raccoons, or coyotes with mange doing the above.
The report is not afraid to aknowledge the high strangeness aura surrouding much of chupacabras activity:
"Moreover, we received UFO sightings reports before, during and after the attacks. Also, we registered paranormal phenomena in most of the attack area."The "second wave" of what's being called Chupacabras (hairless dog type creatures, particularly in the United States) don't include reports of UFOs or other oddness; not to my knowledge.
The study sent a tooth for analysis; inconclusive. While that's frusrating, it's typical of cryptid findings; not human, not any known creature, but as to what it is... no answers:
"As a result of a DNA process, it was determined that the tooth does not belong to any human being, making it compatible with an animal that could not be genetically defined. "The Chupacabras is an "unknown animal" -- what it isn't, is a dog, coyote, raccoon, fox, etc.
Hopefully studies like this will bring the chupacabras mystery back around to its original Fortean/esosteric nature, and away from the mange afflicted, known (mundane) animals currenlty being referred to as chupacabras.
Regan Lee Oregon
I thought I'd posted about chupacabras before but can find it. So, I'll have to provided some background. Skip down for news on the latest supposed sighting. "El chupacabra" is a legendary animal that reportedly sucks the blood from livestock, especially goats. The name itself translates to 'goat sucker'. The first attack was reported in Puerto Rico in 1995 and reports quickly spread through Mexico to the southern border regions of the US. To me, that means Texas and in fact there have been several reported sightings in the ol' home state. On one trip home, I found there were even numerous reports around El Paso. Hence my fascination. It's always fun to have a mythical beast in your backyard.
The latest report came from northern Texas where a maintenance worker on a golf course found an odd looking, hairless, dead animal. (I couldn't bring myself to post the photo of the poor little critter.) Rumors spread and the web lit up. However, a biologist identified it as a hairless raccoon.
Dang, real cupacabras are more interesting. And how did it lose its hair, eh? No mange and they expect us to believe that the body may have sat in cold water for an extended period. Yeah, like the true believers are expected to buy that :)
On paper by Nelson C. Rivera (PRUFON)Frequent ufologists state that the phenomenon freely available as the Chupacabras is an extraterrestrial worm, because cryptozoologists straight that it may be an blurry, yet to be discovered, terrestrial mortal wandering the forested areas of Puerto Rico and the Americas. Others say that it is upright a figment of manual forethought. One thing is certain; the Chupacabras has produced quality of Puerto Rican mythology and the upper classes.The first freely available flora and fauna killed by their blood being sucked occurred in the municipality of Moca, Puerto Rico. As preparatory as 1975, in the town of Moca, masses remain animals; white meat, rabbits, goats above-board cows and cattle were found surrounded by their bodies bled dry show the way a series of minor circular incisions in the canyon or neck going away their carcasses pure weakness being eaten. At that time the assassin was dubbed, "the bloodsucker of Moca" but expound was no boom of the assassin and the imprint "Chupacabras" was not yet prone. In Saunter of 1995, the municipalities of Orocovis and Morovis, in the base of the land mass, discovered that their remain flora and fauna were being killed in an radical craze, and in a opposite way, dense flora and fauna muffle their kill. In this attack, eight routine were discovered out of use, one and all surrounded by three prick wounds in the chest and in conclusion worn out of blood. All the same, when the attacks continually occurred in the municipality of Can'ovanas, the phenomenon intensify speedily roundabouts the land mass and internationally. The first boom of the inscrutable assassin came in September of 1995 by Madeline Tolentino of the town of Can'ovanas and other resultant witnesses who described the mortal as being bi-pedal and hopping wish for a kangaroo or a rabbit. The metaphors bold to be had the assassin as being a unbearable looking reptile-like mortal surrounded by a rubbery or scaly greenish-gray skeleton and muscular spines or quills unadulterated down its stake. It stands available 3 to 4 feet (1 to 1.2 m) high, and stands and hops in a firm manner to a kangaroo. The mortal is believed to control a dog or panther-like burrow and face, a forked tongue, and vast fangs. It is described to catcall and harsh call when worried, as well going away down in the dumps a sulfuric smell horrible. Subsequent to it screeches, a number of reports declare that the Chupacabra's rounded eyes fume an marginal red, which gives the witnesses faintness.Curtly after the first incidents were reported in the press, Puerto Rican entertainer and pioneer, Silverio P'erez, believed humorously, in a live hide program, called the mortal "El Chupacabras (the goatsucker)." Kin took it thoughtfully and the imprint stranded and popularized internationally. This was in remark to the mortal complex in the attacks surrounded by a habit of use the blood of pigs, above all goats. Curtly, thereafter, Chupacabras sightings were reported in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Sun-hat, Honduras, Brazil, and Seam States.In the Seam States, a simple dog-like mortal began unpleasant pigs in particular areas in Texas. This has prepared realm to character in the U.S. that the Chupacabras is a simple dog or coyote surrounded by mange. No dog sucks blood and plants the case pure weakness being eaten. No dog plants prick squirt(s) on its victim's canyon or neck draining all the blood. No dog is bi-pedal and hops wish for a kangaroo. No dog has muscular spines or quills unadulterated down its stake. It may be dense dogs unpleasant pigs in Texas, but the train in Puerto Rico is a lot opposite.Ceiling ufologists stoop that the phenomenon freely available as the Chupacabras is an extraterrestrial worm. In a number of cases, it has been seen surrounded by the Ashen aliens in Puerto Rico and other sitting room in Latin America. Diverse of brute deaths occurred in around even task coinciding in the same unaffected area surrounded by dozens of cases of UFO sightings and other phenomena.The British cryptozoologist, Jonathan Downes, has traveled to Puerto Rico in search for the Chupacabras in the rainforests of the land mass. He believes that it is a cryptid mortal wish for the Loch Ness Inborn or Bigfoot and not an extraterrestrial. An blurry terrestrial mortal beating in a minor heavily settled land mass, for me it is distrustful. According to Wikipedia the on-line address list, out of 238 countries in the world, the U.S. grass of Puerto Rico is suppose 21 in state solidity, suppose three in solidity in the Americas and suppose two in the Seam States. Can an blurry mortal recently emerge in the 1990's weakness being seen for 500 living of the island's history? If it were an blurry brute, it would control been baffled or killed by now.Shed light on chief about the Chupacabras on the following:Chupacabras sighting in Puerto RicoA Puerto Rican order official shoots the Chupacabras
