History Of The Chupacabra In America

Table of contents:

Video: History Of The Chupacabra In America

Video: History Of The Chupacabra In America
Video: Chupacabra History & Lore Explained 2024, March
History Of The Chupacabra In America
History Of The Chupacabra In America
Anonim

What are the legends of the Chupacabra based on - a mysterious creature that sucks blood from animals? Is it a mutant, hybrid, or alien messenger? Or is it a false trail, and something else attacks the animals?

Chupacabra history in America - Chupacabra, Puerto Rico, vampire, monster
Chupacabra history in America - Chupacabra, Puerto Rico, vampire, monster

Now the so-called chupacabru can be found in almost every country in the world. At least, if you believe all those owners of ruined chicken coops and rabbits who claim that their animals were killed not by a fox, a stray dog or a ferret, but by something unknown.

All such reports quickly forget the original history of the Chupacabra, which began in Puerto Rico (Central America) in the 1990s.

During these years, some mysterious creature began to massively ruin Puerto Rican farmers, most often attacking poultry and goats. For this, the creature was nicknamed "Chupacabra", which in Spanish means "fluke of goats".

Image
Image

The nickname came from the fact that this creature practically did not touch the meat, but it sucked the victim's blood, sometimes cleaned up. All this in the overwhelming majority took place at night, so people saw the creature itself in extremely rare cases, and if they did, then their descriptions were sometimes completely different.

That familiar image of the Chupacabra as a slightly kangaroo-like beast with sharp teeth, large hind legs, a long thin tongue and spines on its back emerged after testimony from several injured farmers, which appeared in the press and were presented in a sensational manner.

In fact, there is no general image of the Chupacabra, different farmers describe this creature in different ways, either as a large dog, or as an ape-like animal, or with wings, or jumping like a large rabbit, etc.

The only common thing that has always been present in such testimony is that the creature was undoubtedly a vampire, and in nature large animals that feed on only one blood simply do not exist.

Because of this, rumors soon spread that the Chupacabra was not some kind of mutant dog, but a creature from space, brought to Earth by aliens. And that as if she drinks blood not in order to feed on it, but transfers this blood in herself as in a large container, and then transfers it to aliens who use it for their strange experiments.

Later, several stories even appeared when the Chupacabra was seen in the immediate vicinity of a UFO or even at an alien base, to which people abducted by aliens were brought. True, there are very few such stories and they are all received from anonymous eyewitnesses.

Chupacabra at Melendez's farm

The story of the Puerto Rican farmer Misiel Negrone Melendez is one of the very first cases when a person took a good look at the appearance of a strange beast that climbed into his yard. It happened in the fall of 1995.

Melendez was fast asleep when he was awakened by a strange sound coming from outside. He went out onto the long balcony of the second floor of his house and immediately saw an animal at the far end of the balcony, the likes of which he had never met before.

This beast slowly moved towards Melendez and then just as slowly began to retreat back. The creature stood upright on two legs, its body was completely hairless, and its legs were long claws. In height, standing upright, the creature was the same height as Meléndez, and its red oval eyes stared at the person.

Melendez's heart was beating strongly in his chest with fear and this lasted for several seconds, after which the man ran back into the house as quickly as he could and securely closed the door to the balcony behind him. When he dared to look out the window, the red eyes of the creature immediately stared at him, but then the creature left.

Image
Image

The next day, Melendez told everyone he knew about what he had seen, and the story quickly spread throughout the area. And after some time, one of the farmers also saw a similar creature and now he found him next to a dead goat, which was completely deprived of blood.

A couple more such stories and now it is this image of the chupacabra that has become generally accepted. As mentioned above, not all farmers have seen just such a chupacabra, but the image of a bipedal creature with powerful legs, red eyes and large claws on its paws has now settled in the press for a long time.

And these stories with such a frightening monster began to sell well, so they appeared more and more and now not only in Puerto Rico, but also in the USA, Chile, Nicaragua, Mexico. This was the largest wave of Chupacabra sightings, the largest in pre-Internet years.

The second major wave of Chupacabra reports began in Texas in 2004. And here the chupacabra had a completely different appearance, namely, as a bald dog-like animal with long thin legs. But more about it below.

Researchers' work

The first enthusiasts who decided to investigate who the Chupacabra was were director Joe Palermo and anomalous researcher Mark Davenport. Shortly after the first reports of the Chupacabra, they arrived in Puerto Rico and decided to make a documentary about the Chupacabra. In those days, the Chupacabra was talked about on all the news in the country and stories about meeting her appeared in the press almost every day.

Palermo and Davenport began to question people if they had seen this strange animal, and then completely attacked the so-called chupacabra's lair or nest, which was located near the village of Konovanas.

According to the villagers, every night for four months they saw this creature and it attacked their animals. In the indicated den (hole in the ground), Palermo and Davenport found several hairs of an unknown animal and took them for analysis.

Image
Image

These hairs were later sent to a laboratory for DNA analysis and detailed examination. According to one of the versions, it was assumed that the mysterious monster could be a laboratory monkey. In the 1930s, many macaques were brought to Puerto Rico for study, and some escaped and settled well in the wild.

Forensic science professor Irwin Kornfield examined the hairs presented and ruled that they did not belong to primates. But he found that they looked like the hair of an animal of the canine family, but he found it difficult to say which one. To get more accurate information, he needed more samples of such hair, but he never received them. This hair story remained unfinished.

Texas chupacabra

The first sightings of strange hairless dogs in Texas began in the summer of 2004, but were first associated with the Chupacabra when attacks on Devin McAnally's ranch in Elmendorf began in August 2004.

Almost every day, something climbed into his chicken coop and killed the chickens; in a short time, the farmer lost more than 30 chickens, all of which were deprived of blood, but the mysterious predator did not touch the meat at all.

McAnally was at a loss as to what kind of vampire settled nearby when one day, while working on his ranch, he saw an incomprehensible creature in the distance near the fence. It stood on four legs, and its hind legs seemed taller and larger than the front. The creature had no fur on its body and was dark gray in color.

Texas Chupacabra. The artist's fantasy

Image
Image

In appearance, the strange creature resembled a hybrid of a bald dog and a kangaroo, and McAnally quickly linked the killing of his chickens and this animal. He ran to the barn for a gun to kill the kangaroo dog, but when he returned, the creature was nowhere to be found.

However, McAnally was already ready for the meeting and now always began to carry a gun with him. And a few days later he saw this animal again. Now he did not let him go and immediately shot him, and when he came closer and began to examine, he was very puzzled.

The creature had rough, bare gray skin, thick as an elephant, and the hind legs were indeed much larger than the front. The creature only vaguely resembled a dog, but it did not look like a dog or a coyote. This creature went down in history as the "Creature from Elmendorf".

McAnally took a photo of the creature and saved part of its remains, which were then examined several times by various experts. They could not come to a consensus about what kind of animal it was. It was assumed that it was either a hybrid of a dog and a coyote, or some very sick coyote with demodicosis (skin disease).

The creature had an unusual crest on its skull, larger teeth than dogs or coyotes of its size, and other incomprehensible differences. There were even suggestions that this is a Mexican hairless dog.

Now, unfortunately, you can't find the very photos that were taken by McAnally on the web. You can only find pictures of other killed in Texas "Chupacabras", which were later identified as bald coyotes, but the "creature from Elmendorf" is still a complete mystery.

Below is one of the hairless coyotes that was shot in Texas, assuming it was a Chupacabra. There were at least several dozen such cases in 2004-2007.

Image
Image

Let's summarize

What did we end up with? Many people saw something incomprehensible that attacked animals or just wandered around farms, and someone was sucking blood from the animals. And these are in fact the only real clues that researchers have. Everything else is just theories, hypotheses and assumptions.

A significant part of eyewitness stories can be safely attributed to a banal imagination, because the Chupacabra is almost always seen in the dark or with a poor light source. And in such conditions, even an ordinary dog or wolf can seem like monsters.

But who, then, sucked (and continues to suck) the blood of the unfortunate animals? Moreover, such cases are found today all over the world from India to Scotland. Several years ago there was even a whole wave of such cases in Russia and Ukraine. This question remains unanswered so far.

Recommended: