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You might not know what El Chupacabra is--although if that's the case, your knowledge of the unexplained, or of retread Scooby-Doo episodes, is sadly lacking. El Chupacabra is a cryptid, a creature roughly analogous to Bigfoot who is said to live in Mexico, Puerto Rico, South America, and the southwestern US. Its name, chupacabra, means "goat sucker," because it feeds on the blood of goats and other livestock.
There have been hundreds of sightings of El Chupacabra since about 1990, and some have been proven to have purely natural explanations. For example, 3 bodies of bizarre, ugly, doglike creatures were found in Texas, and while the local population were quick to call them chupacabras, DNA testing proved that they were actually a breed of coyotes, though they must have been severely diseased to look as they did. Other sightings have never been explained.
The recent sightings in northern Texas involve an animal control officer finding a couple of scary looking creatures. From the AOLNews article:
"All I know is, it wasn't normal," Animal Control Officer Frank Hackett, who shot one of the animals in a local rancher's barn, told WOAI. "It was ugly, real ugly. I'm not going to lie on that one."
Scientists are sure that when DNA testing is complete, these creatures will prove to be simply deformed coyotes, like others before them have been. Some others, at least. People who have experienced these frightening creatures aren't so sure.
2 comments:
Interesting post for someone with such knowledge of all things. What do you think? Are there animals that haven't been discovered or are they all just made up?
Hi, Gretchen--I'm sorry I didn't see this comment earlier. I can't really comment on each individual sighting of a chupacabra or any other cryptid--I wasn't on the scene, didn't see the creature and all that. But I know from my own research that when there is a pattern of sightings--many people seeing similar things over a period of time--science does all it can to refute the existence of something it can't speak on with any authority. I don't know why it does that--it seems like bad science.
There are of course, new animals/creatures being discovered all the time. And I also don't think that people who have these sightings are making anything up--though it's possible they might be mistaken or have misinterpreted what they saw. But it's possible they didn't, and the more people who have similar experiences, the more likely that is.
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