El Chupacabras, The Goat Sucker

When translated into English, El Chupacabra means 'Goat Sucker'. This cryptozoological creature gets this name from its attacks that were first noticed in the mid 90's. It's been said that this creature attacks goats by biting its neck and digging into it with its long teeth and draining the blood out if the animal. It is said to make one hole on the skin and suck the blood out of this spot. This was what was known of it initially. But as it made its way through Puerto Rico, its victims included other small animals such as chickens and rabbits and even small children. The human attacks were not as bad and no human deaths have been reported up to

date. But it left the people in panic. The attacks spread to Central America, Mexico, Southern

US and then South America.

There were a few theories as to how these creatures came into existence from extra-terrestrial pets to creatures that lived under earth that made its way to the surface due to an earthquake. But the most famous theory out of it all remains that these creatures were a secret creation of the US military base in the jungle which escaped after a hurricane.

The first sightings of these creatures were made in 1995 when Madeline Tolentino and a few other witnesses described it as a cross between a kangaroo and a gray. They said it was about 4 feet tall with a large head and a mouth without lips and red eyes. Apparently it had a relatively small body and webbed wings and muscular hind legs which seemed to be adapted for leaping. Another witness who spotted this creature on another occasion said that it had fangs, its eyes were as big as a hen's egg and that it had colored spikes down its back and head. In March 1996, a Spanish talk show aired the story about the El Chupacabra. Followed by the show, there was an explosion in Mexico and the United States. But up to date, no photos of the El Chupacabra have been taken other than the eyewitness accounts.

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