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For generations and generations, the legend of the blood-sucking Chupacabra has been frightening people throughout Latin America, Texas, and a few other parts of the United States. Also known as a goat sucker, and other names. I made a thread about it here a few years ago.

Well, it resurfaced in the news today: here. That video link came from Yahoo Front page news just a little while ago.

What do you all think about this? You can read more about the Chupacabra here.

I have heard of it before- only once, a few months ago. There was some kind of documentary on Animal Planet about it
I would say that it is like the "Yeti"
it could exsist as a close cousin to another species

Here are pictures of a similar creature to the one in posting.







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With the new animals and thing cryptozoologist keep finding anything is possible. They may make improvements to having a guard dog one day :)

I have heard of this animal before and have seen various stories regarding it. I am not sure what it is that they had caught but it is not like anything I have ever seen before and evidently no one else seems to know what it is..so could very well be the Chupacabra.

Looks like a hairless thylacine...

Looks like an evolutionized ant-eater. I don't believe in any blood sucking goat, this is just a mexican representation of vampiric animals. How about a blood sucking rabbit? Wait... Pelicula rings a bell. No, that was a vegetable sucker.

Yes it does look like a thylacine. I was thinking it looked close to a wallaby... but not totally. The thylacine is thought to be extinct- but maybe we ended up with some weird-ass version over here due to one finding their way over to our side of the world (thylacine were indigenous to Australia/Tasmania/that neck of the woods). Like, maybe they came here to be in a zoo or circus? Some got away and made babies? Scared themselves out of their hair and been hiding in shame ever since? LOL

Thylacine

When I was in Texas it was the biggest rage and some lady was making money big time over this chupa thing.. Then a scientist said it was a wolf with mange and the lady as mad cuz she wasn't selling as many chupa stuff and she said that the scientist was full of it..

Scientists will say just about anything to prove or disprove that which would appear or seem to be utter nonesense.

I just think it's sad that they killed it...

A few years ago the radio show Coast to Coast with Art Bell did a show about the Chupacabra. Was a little creepy then, guess it still is.

I think the chupacabra is just a load of crock, to be honest. Like with Big Foot, there is no substantial proof as to it's existence. Just hearsay and nothing more.

Being as I can't view the video at this moment, I am going to assume its just like the people who caught "Big Foot" a few years back ... and it turned out to just be a monkey suit frozen in a freezer.

The goat killer has been around for many years and will remain far from now. Are those pics of the alleged monster or something mistaken for them. i do not think so.

I read a piece on CNN today where a taxidermist in Texas who is now in possesion of the "Chupacabra" carcass was interviewed and his opinion was that this specimen is a "Coyote with mange".

Many of these mythical creatures have some mundane basis. The stories are expanded on and made more and more bizzare as time goes on.

Monster Quest did a show on this. They found that it was a Coyote with rare form of Mange that was attacking the livestock of farmers. Since the farmers couldn't identify the creature they told their neighbors about the attacks. And the ghost stories their parents told them as kids took effect. And the birth of the Chupacabra is here.

I did indeed read those articles as well. Even so, the animal does very much look like a hairless thylacine... and that (the thylacine) was a real animal and not some myth. They were also carnivores and would hunt for chickens and goats on farms if they were roaming around these parts somehow... brought from the other side of the world. BUT, they were marsupials.

The articles do claim exsanguination of the livestock, and less eating of them. It also claims that El Chupa Cabras is a new phenomina that seams to correspond with the extinction of large Thylacines. North America has very few native marsupials (Opposum) but perhaps something escaped from a private zoo, or maybe and escaped thylacine bred with opossums?

It doesn't look like a hairless coyote or a thylacine to me. The paws look prehensile in the pictures and the body type is too rotund for a coyote. No self-respecting possum would breed outside its species.

Some imported species with mange makes sense though.

Kangaroo rats are not indigenous to Ca. but I disturbed one in my backyard several years ago. It was asleep in an empty wooden casket that had once held brandy and then hamsters.

First off, who's to say its a CROCK? Like you know something evryone doesn't ? It very well could be some type of animal that has slinked in the shadows for many years. There are always new breeds and strains of different animals, and bugs found almost daily in the rain forests. If you had a clue you'd read up on your Biology notes.

I believe that a goat sucking animal exists, just like the blood sucking Vampire bat....Many creatures live off the blood of other creatures, hosts, if you will. I truely think it would be a shame to annihilate a creature we have no knowledge about. I think it's rather exciting to find a new species.

Some people will say negative things about the possibility of a new creature which may be something of movies, lets say. But do you truely know of the existance or non-existance?

There are people here who truely believe that they are Vampires. I haven't met any as of late, but that doesn't make me an authority on the subject. I believe in energy "sucking"Vampires. They are also known as psychic Vampires if I'm not mistaken. The explanation for that is that they feed off your energy. The term Vampire means to take, so whats the difference it this particular being, animal, entity, you pick.., feeds from cattle, goats, horses, sheep, ot humans???

Get a grip, and open your mind...there are endless possibilities.

Oh, and to those of you who believe, this last post wasn't meant to be aimed at you. I just dislike extreemely opinionated people who think they know it all. I appreciate all of your insightsand believe what you have to say, and what you have heard or seen!

I guess I am just an extreem believer in the unusual.

Well, your post was just as opinionated as the posters your were attacking. I don't think you have any right to tell someone to get a grip if you can't deal with someone basically telling you to do the same.

As for the topic...sure I think its possible. But I think that maybe over time stories were embelished a bit in order to frighten...kinda like a bedtime story. very much like the lore of the vampire...wives tales do wonders to create fantastical stories/creatures.

Looking over the pictures posted at the top and the points raised by a few... I believe that one looks like a wallaby with the mange. Bloodmother pointed out a KEY thing in regards to what it was eating... looks like an herbivore there. Thylacine's do resemble them in some ways. moreso if it had no hair, but not exactly.

Here's the latest to the video link I initially posted, found on http://www.ksat.com:

POSTED: Thursday, September 3, 2009
UPDATED: 10:18 pm CDT September 3, 2009
SAN ANTONIO -- It’s the talk of the town and has even got the attention of people all over the world.

The strange animal in the hands of a Blanco taxidermist has been speculated as being the mythical chupacabra. But that mysterious finding may not be much of a mystery at all. Some have speculated it could be a breed of dog called the Xoloitzcuintle, also known as a Xolo.

“It’s been around for about 3,000 years in Mexico,” said Rhett Rushing, a folklorist at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.

The Xolo is a type of dog native to Mexico and Central America, and was considered a sacred dog in the Aztec culture. It bears similar resemblance to the gray hairless animal that is turning up all over South Texas.

“It was bred by the Aztecs both as a food source and a companion guardian, and it also had healing powers,” said Rushing.

As a folklorist, Rushing has studied the origins of the legend of the chupacabra and the rarely seen Xolo.

“It’s disturbing to think there are that many loose Xolos in Texas,” said Rushing.

The Xolo is considered a rare and strange dog that comes in two varieties, one with hair, and the other hairless. Those familiar with the breed say it is possible that the dog migrated from Mexico and here to Texas. Many who have seen the pictures say the findings only prove the legend of the chupacabra is just that, a legend. They also say there is nothing mythical of what’s turning up here in South Texas, and that the pictures show nothing more than a dog.

“I have not been able to compare a coyote with a Xolo, and I’m anxious to find the real chupacabra so we can put them side-by-side and end the confusion once and for all,” said Rushing.

The tales will continue as will the show..the mythical big foot, nessi, aliens, etc...there has been no proof of the existence or nonexistence of these things and as long as people choose to believe it will continue and the tales will get taller.

Why would it want blood and the sweet syrup from a hummingbird feeder?

Don't discount the teeth. Those are meat eating teeth!

+ Why waste a whole goat?

Blood sucking bats don't kill the cow, and they really don't suck, more like lick.

Well, I live in Puerto RIco and many people here has testimonies about seen the "chupacabras" and lots of animals death have been relationed with it. What experts here said is that the "chupacabras" is a new kind of animal created in laboratories, made by different types of breeds. The people that saw it describes it as a big thing with sharp theets and large claws, something like a gargoyle. I don't believe that they are traveling to place at the same time, I think that's more than one, in different parts of the world.

Excuse me, I should've said that I don't believe that the "chupacabras" will be able to travel form place to place at the same time, I think that there's more than one in different parts of the world.

Ive heard of the Chupacabra. It is a Mexican belief of a strange alien-like creature that drinks the blood of certain animals. Chupacabra is Spanish for Goat-Sucker

You might have an opinion and that is ok to have but for my belief I do not believe in that. It is just a folklore and there for it is just something that parents and grandparents tell there children and grandchildren. It's like the Boogieman here in America. So please stop with the opinionated bullshit this is a forum not a judgmental forum.

The look like my dog all shaved down? Weird....

Not a hummingbird feeder but a thistle seed feeder for seed eating birds in pictures. It may have been just curious.

I saw a Jackalope once that had been in the hands of a taxidermist. Proves that anything can be manipulated and new creatures can be created but only in death.
There were recently a large number of new species discovered in a "lost world" inside a dormant volcano in, I believe, New Guinea. Species that were devoid of outside influences and thus adapted and evolved in their own way. I believe that would be the only way for them to remain hidden. Very few places anymore are remote enough to hide some of these creatures of myth.

Thats very true shadow fever

well untill this animal is found we can speculate many thing about what it is

I think that the Chupacabra existed. It's just hard for us to find something that always runs away.

Wow that video is freaky to say the least.. Omg but i wonder if it is a hoax or it was really alive..

I think its just a rabid dog....not to say something like that cant exist...I just think the creature shown is being misidentified....but I am not a zoologist or anything like that either..

looks like a pig and a anteater mixed

It looks to me like something that didn't get to phone home. Pitiful, really.

i actually grew up with this story since i was little but the pictures i was showen looked nothing like that it was more goat looking and had red eyes and sharp teeth.

its looks like an animal to me....

like a hairless dog or something,,,,

its doesn't look like a chupacabra....

at monsterpedia theirs a picture that might say the actual look of a chupacabra....

its hairy and can stand in two feet...

most of these have proven a hoax but we must realize that the myth is still being seen or shown so some proof could still be out there.

Plus, they keep killing all of these supposed Chupacabras!
How are you ever going to learn from it and its backround and such if it's dead?!

I agree we need to study these creatures not hunt them down.

I remember hearing about this as a little boy on my first trip to Puerto Rico. My uncle literally scared me sleepless by parking in the middle of no where and telling me it was around. Looking at this though, it does not look like anything I have ever been told. (By crazies that have claimed to have seen it.)

Still looks like a kangaroo or wallabe in my perspective.. Mayhaps its origins are either Australian or Aboriginal.

I honestly don't know what that could be my best friends grandpa grew up in mexico he told me that the chupacabra was a creature that looked like the devil is depicted to looklike but with big leathery wings that have sharp claws. Red eyes, it hops around and when it finds a prey it holds them against it with his wings while he feeds off of them. It always sounded to me like a different version of a vampire.

From the photos that I have seen on documentaries on this creature, it looks a lot like a canine with a skin disorder. Perhaps a cross between a coyote and some sort of domestic dog. Some of the photos posted in this thread seem to me though to look a lot like some sort of marsupial.

I think that Max Bauccus maybe one

I come from a long line of believers and witches. My family has always been quite rare on this part. Though I do believe my dad dismisses this as old wives tales my mother pleads another story. I believe there is something out there, what exactly that may be is another story all together.

The new thing they're trying to pass off as the chupacabra doesn't fit any previous description of the animal throughout it's history. Not only that, but it really just looks like a mixed breed mutt to me....
Have you ever watched World's Ugliest Dog Show.
There's a breed that originates from China... the same gene that makes it hairless also makes its teeth weak so the teeth on one side of their mouths are normally gone before they even reach 2 years old so their tongues hang out... That's what it looks like to me..

Maybe some messed up breed of fox or coyote..... I don't know..