El Chupacabra

The El Chupacabra is one of the most well-known cryptids in popular culture. The name El Chupacabra, means “goat sucker” because of its supposed method of attacking and drinking the blood of goats and other livestock. The chupacabra is said to be reptilian in appearance, with a row of spines on its back along with sharp fangs. The monster can be approximately three to four feet tall and is bipedal in standing and hops like a kangaroo. Another image of the creature is that it lacks the hair of a dog, but features the pronounced spinal ridge or “spikes” similar to the reptilian chupacabra. The four-legged, dog-like chupacabra is also known for some fearsome fangs and claws used for draining animal’s blood. The “mark” of the chupacabra on the
During the first series of sightings there were around a dozen reports of attacks all within the following cities in Puerto Rico. In Orocovis, farmers found eight sheep completely drained of blood each having puncture wounds. In Guancia, a man named Osvaldo Claudio Rosado claimed to be grabbed behind by a gorilla, but Puerto Rico has no gorillas. Rosado needed treatment for wounds around his torso, nearby his attack, chickens and cows were found dead with single wounds to the neck and the blood was gone. In Canovanas, livestock deaths reached into the hundreds, the mayor at the time Jose “Chemo” Soto hunted the beast, they used rifles and a caged goat to lure it but failed in finding it. In Torrecillia Baja, a woman found her chicken dead to perforations to its neck, her cat dead with its genitals gone and her guinea pig with its throat slit. These sightings lead to believe they are chupacabra attacks, but more likely coyotes or dogs. Most coyotes or wild dogs simply bite the neck and leave it to die. Witnesses say they are completely drained of blood but later when the evidence has been autopsied they are revealed to contain plenty of blood. It is believed that many people imagined things after watching or hearing about an alien-horror film that opened in Puerto Rico in the summer of
Chilean military officials stated in finding three "Chupacabra eggs" and even catching the animal itself. According to Chilean press accounts the chupacabra evidence was passed on to NASA. Radio programs in Chile have also accused the American space agency of creating the chupacabra in a lab in the first place, while conducting genetic tests in the Chilean desert on mandrills. NASA denied the charge with more annoyance than amusement. "Before this it was the face on Mars, and before that it was modifying the weather, before that we were beaming radiation from satellites to make people impotent," says a decidedly weary-sounding NASA spokesman, Brian Welch. "Before that they were saying we faked the moon landing." Welch suggests the chupacabra is blamed on NASA because the space agency is the last place anyone in Chile would think to call and ask about it. "If you were persuaded to believe that sort of thing, you'd blame the last person you would go to for confirmation of it. I mean, people who believe this sort of thing certainly aren't beating down the door to ask us about it." Brian Welch