The chupacabra is relatively new to cryptozoology having
first been spotted around 1995. It is also fairly contained to areas with high
Latin populations since they first started being spotted in South and Central
America. I hadn’t heard of them until we moved here to New Mexico.
Some people believe they are a mythological creature that
sucks the blood of smaller animals particularly goats (which by the way is what
chupacabra means, goat sucker), while others think they are actually aliens. It’s
kind of interesting how the stories evolve around the chupacabra. Most
mythological creatures are just that. I’ve never heard of a vampire being
thought of as an alien.
When chupacabras first arrived on the scene they were
described as walking on their hind legs, reptilian looking, and being up to 5
feet tall. More recent descriptions have
them more doglike and much smaller. In fact in once case where a farmer found
what he thought was a chupacabra carcass on his land and had an autopsy done on
it. It ended up being a coyote with a bad case of mange.
Which brings up the third theory of what the chupacabra
really is: just a mutated dog, or coyote, whichever the case may be.
I’ve lived here in the Southwest for about 6 years now and I’ve
met people that believe in a lot of strange things but chupacabras are one of
those things that most people still kind of scoff at…at least the ones I
know.
So what do you think? Are
chupacabras mutants, myths, or aliens?
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