Chupacabra is a mythical creature that resides in the territory of the parts of America, with the first sightings in Puerto Rico.
What Chupacabra means? The name was given because of the habits, by eyewitness that the attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats.
Chupacabra, or literally translated from Spanish goat-sucker, is a youngest kind of cryptid because unlike the other mysterious beings appear only in the modern era. Moreover, it is characteristic that it is the only species that has an accurate description of what it looks like.
Eyewitness statements vary from alien beings that walk on two legs, through the animal that looks like a dog or a coyote, to kind of reptile with scales or feathers, which looks like a kangaroo, and even to something that might be a bat which is the size of a man .
First reported cases
A few months later, in August, in the Puerto Rican city of Canovanas, was reportedly killed 150 domestic animals and pets, and eyewitness, Madelyn Tolentino, reported that she had seen the creature responsible for this massacre. Apparently, the creature was the size of a small bear, with a small round head, large sloping red eyes, small mouth, spines that extend from the the vertex along the spine to the back end, with large claws on the hands and feet.
The most famous American paranormal investigator, Benjamin Radford, after 5 years of research revealed that the description given by Madelyn Tolentino identical creature Sil from the sci-fi film Species (Species), who coincidentally showed a few weeks before her statement regarding the Chupacabra, and that the autopsy showed that in the dead animals were yet more blood and were not really ” dry ”. Redford said the Chupacabra may exist, but it certainly does not look like Madelyn described.
In 2004 in Texas was reported about 150 cases of attacks on livestock, and near San Antonio was even killed the creature that attacked a couple of cows. In the town of Coleman, in Texas, a hunter was caught in the trap a creature that met the description of Chupacabra, and found two more corpses of cattle in the vicinity of San Antonio. Two different tests at two universities in Texas and California, have shown that these were coyotes suffering from severe mange (sarcoptic or demodectic).
Russian Chupacabra… or vodka?
In early 2006, appeared in central Russia cases similar to those in Puerto Rico and Texas. First they found 32 turkeys, then 30 sheep, few head of cattle and a lot of dogs and cats. Russian researcher of the paranormal Vadim Černobov traced the Russian cupakabra of Ukraine, Belarus and Polish, accumulated a wealth statement and at the end he gave a description of bloodsuckers: kangaroo-like creature with a head like a crocodile, which his victims attack from the air, according to the marks on places of attacks. He concluded that it was all nonsense associated with the influence of vodka…
What is the Chupacabra really
The coyote suffering from mange, losing hair, losing weight dramatically and force, can not to hunt their natural prey and turns to slower animals that can not escape, such as sheep or cows.
The mysterious bites on the neck quite correspond to stabbing of canines, in this way all wild beasts hunt prey, suffocating it. A lack of blood from animals zoologists explain in that diseased coyote does not have the power to bring down prey to the ground and choked it, so attacked animal can runs some distance from the places of attack with the attacker on his back, until it died of blood loss. Read also Facts And Myths About Werewolves!