The Inquisitr » Chupacabra

Elusive “Montauk Monster” spotted, bludgeoned in Panama

Kim LaCapria — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:13:33 +0000

Last summer, the “Montauk Monster” pics that circulated the web were cause for much speculation and commentary.

Cryptozoologists nearly wet themselves, some New Yorkers thought it might be a marketing stunt and skeptics said that the dead creature was a decomposed raccoon or possibly an abused dog. (Ties were spotted on the animals paws, leading some to believe the real monster was someone who’d drowned the creature on purpose.) The odd cryptid has surfaced since then (like the chupacabra-sicle in Texas), and now some teenagers in Panama have carried on the “if you can’t identify it, beat it to death” philosophy that does kind of make it difficult to identify strange creatures in the short term.

Central American channel Telemetro has images posted of the strange creature, which shares a pink, rubbery skin texture with the Montauk Monster. Also similar is the weird, Renaissance painting style death pose, although the painful cause of death alleged for this animal is possibly responsible.

Thanks to Google Translate, we can read the boys’ account in their own (sort of) words:

As recounted one of them, they suddenly saw the creature emerging from a cave located behind the water jet. At her appearance and it began to climb over the rocks to one of them panicked and began to thrash him and throw sticks, getting killed, after which they threw into the water and ran.

[Telemetro via Telegraph]

Texas man claims to have “frozen” chupacabra

Kim LaCapria — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:11:19 +0000

A man in Texas believes (or wants you to believe) that the mythical and elusive chupacabra (a word that breaks down en Espanol to mean “goat sucker” because it allegedly drains livestock of blood) lies in repose in his freezer.

Chupacabras are cryptids, and most scientists classify their existence firmly as urban or local legends. Of course, that doesn’t stop the beasts from cropping up in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Maine and apparently Texas. The man claims the animal wandered into an acquaintance’s barn, and not knowing what the creature was, they decided to poison it- as you do to strange animals or people on your property.

The animal is described as having gray, leathery skin and unusually long front legs. Witnesses claim it is unlike any animal known to be native to Texas, and the man in possession of the alleged chupacabra hopes to display it in a museum one day. As of now, not surprisingly, the frozen animal has not been positively identified as any kind of strange new animal, and existence of chupacabras is still not confirmed.

Blood sucking Chupacabra spotted in Texas

Duncan Riley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:12:51 +0000

A Dewitt County, Texas Sheriff’s Deputy has recorded what is believe to be a Chupacabra in the wild. The animal filmed is roughly the size of a coyote, but gallops.

According to Wikipedia, a Chupacabra is a cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas. The name comes from the animal’s reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. Early sighting date to 1990 in Puerto Rico, and have creature has since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile. It allegedly hops like a kangaroo, has spines like a porcupine, and fangs like a vampire bat.

None of those three descriptions fits the video above (nor the artist rendering on Wikipeda, which looks like an Alien), but without doubt what ever is recorded in the video above is one strange looking creature.