| The Chupacabra is one of the most recent | | | | Mass hysteria began when the lack of blood was |
| creatures of cryptozoology, first seen during the | | | | accompanied by mutilations and the reports |
| early 1990s in Puerto Rico. El Chupacabra, | | | | outside Puerto Rico were more frequent. |
| Chupacabras or Goat Sucker is a creature native | | | | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, |
| to the Americas, particularly the island where it | | | | Panama, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, and the |
| was first reported, Mexico, and the United States, | | | | United States were the preferred target of the |
| although this being has been reported in other | | | | Chupacabra before making Mexico its second |
| Latin American communities. | | | | home. After being considered a vampire or |
| Goat sucker is the literal translation to the Spanish | | | | "macho cabrio", the Chupacabra was considered a |
| word Chupacabra, the name given to the | | | | type of Alien until the continuous sightings gave it |
| creature after being reported as a winged being, | | | | specific forms of appearance. The Chupacabra is |
| with the habit of attacking and drinking the blood | | | | supposed to be a wallaby-like being, a strange |
| of goats and livestock. Like occurs with other | | | | breed of wild dog, or the most common, a |
| cryptids, the Chupacabra is described in different | | | | lizard-like creature with greenish-gray skin and |
| way after the sightings in Puerto Rico. From the | | | | sharp spines running down its back. |
| North Carolinas in the United States to the south | | | | In 2001 a Chupacabra's corpse was found in |
| of Chile bordering with Argentina, the Chupacabra | | | | Nicaragua supporting the conclusion that it is |
| was a lonely single creature flying from one | | | | simply a strange breed of wild dog, but in recent |
| location to another, until the reports of attacks | | | | years the tracks of a winged-like being were |
| revealed that there is more than one creature in | | | | found in Mexico. This finding shows a creature as |
| the area. | | | | it was originally described in the 1990s, but |
| Once again, the scientists consider the Chupacabra | | | | without the corpse, this proof makes no evidence |
| a legendary creature, born from modern urban | | | | for scientists. |
| legends, but nobody can explain how and who | | | | There is a website that describes this and |
| attacked animals in the way the Chupacabra is | | | | numerous other creatures of Cryptozoology in |
| described to attack. In early 1992, the first | | | | detail. The website is called: Unknown Creatures, |
| reports were considered human acts of Satanism | | | | and may be found at this address: |
| or a similar cult. Later, it was said that a sort of | | | | By Robert W. Benjamin |
| primitive vampire was responsible for the killings | | | | Copyright © 2006 |
| of many different types of goats, and other | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, |
| animals, including birds, dogs, cows and horses. All | | | | newsletter or on your web site as long as it is |
| dead animals were found with one pattern in | | | | reprinted in its entirety and without modification |
| common, they all had two puncture holes on their | | | | except for formatting needs or grammar |
| necks and they were totally drained of blood. | | | | corrections. |