So I almost feel like I’m obliged to mention this: Someone in Texas (near sleepy Blanco, to be specific) claims to have captured a chupacabra.
(A special hat tip goes to reader John who tipped me off to this in email and then, at my urging, in the tumbelweedy forum as well. Really, guys, post questions there. I'd love the discussion.)
Before you go running off to search “what does chupacabra mean?” let me break it down for you. Basically, chupacabra translates to “goat sucker,” and it has long been referenced as some sort of animal vampire. I did some searching and CNN has a video. Of course, the video they have shows what appears to be just an ugly dog, but what do I know. (That’s him pictured above.)
What do you all think? Yay or nay? Also, what are you all’s favorite Texas myths?
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My hunch says its photoshopped. I’d have to see more pictures. Everything I’ve read about the chupacabra has suggested a more wolf like creature–in other words, I’m thinking that’s too small to be the real deal.
Yeah, I’m not convinced either. For some reason, and I understand this is completely ridiculous, I assume the real chupacabra has glowing eyes. It’s just, I don’t know, that seems like it has to be true.
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The term chupacabra has been around for at least ten years. I remember when it was supposed to be a “space dinosaur” or a government genetic experiment that got loose. Anyway, their were “sightings” in Mexico years ago and I watched a whole TV show documentary about it. It was like a crazy looking mini Velociraptor. Now it’s just supposed to be an overgrown rat? At least whoever saw this “vampire dog” could have chosen a different name for it. Chupacabra was already taken, but no one seems to notice.
I saw a show on this. DNA testing showed that it was a coyote/Mexican wolf hybrid. Hybrids like this often exhibit strange mutation, in this case, the elongated rear legs (giving the beast the weird, hunched gait you can see in video of it), the shorter lower jaw, the elongated snout, and the strange shape of the paw and the elongation evident in the claws. However, the hairless skin is still a puzzling mystery in this beast, as hybridization rarely produces a mutation such as that.
wut the fuck people said the chupacabra is not true but now people said it is true soo who should i belive you fucken shit faces and yall are hoes for nsaying this shit
actually the term Chupacabra has been around for hundreds of years. The term Chupacabra in Spanish DOES mean “Goat sucker” Chupa meaning suck or sucker and Cabra meaning goat.