The Chupacabras

THE CHUPACABRA PHENOMENON

The chupacabra (or chupacabras) is a creature. People have been seen this mysterious creature to inhabit parts of the Americas. It is associated particularly with Puerto Rico (where it was first reported), Mexico, and the United States, especially in the latter's Latin American communities.

The name translates literally from Spanish as "goat-sucker."

This creature attacks and drinks the blood of livestock.

Physical descriptions of the creature vary.

Sightings began in Puerto Rico in the early 1990s

HISTORY

The legend of the chupacabra began in about 1992, when Puerto Rican newspapers “El Vocero” and “El Nuevo Día” began reporting the killings of many different types of animals, such as birds, horses, and as its name implies, goats.

The killings had one pattern in common: each of the animals found dead had two punctured holes around their necks.

Soon after the animal deaths in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths were reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Brazil, the United States and, most notably, Mexico.

NORTH OF CHILE

Many residents believe that the Chupacabras is the result of some diabolical genetic experiments gone awry (fracasó) by NASA, or some other U.S. agency.

Residents of Calama and nearby communities continued to blame NASA for the apparitions and attacks of the mysterious Chupacabras.

By the other hand, in Antofagasta one person says the Chupacabra had virtually destroyed his car by making deep scratches in it with its claws. And it killed the cat. But The Chupacabras is still a mysterious creature that only a few people have seen until now.