Episode 3.32 // Hide Your Goats: Chupacabras On The Loose!
- Dec 14, 2023
- 2 min read
In the early 1990s a mysterious new creature burst onto the cryptid scene, first terrorizing Puerto Rico then the Southwestern US. The menace attacked and killed animals and livestock with vampiric ferocity, earning itself the name “Chupacabra”. Witnesses claimed it looked like an alien mixed with a kangaroo, with leopard spots, chicken hands, wolf feet, and dinosaur spikes. Could this monster be real? Or was the Chupacabra merely a goat-eating figment of our worst imagination?
SOURCES:
Chasing the Chupacabra, a Lone Star State Legend - Asher Elbein - Texas Observer - Oct 27, 2016
Mystery Creature Ravages Puerto Rican Livestock - Karl Ross - The Washington Post - Dec 26, 1995
Goat Sucker Punch in P.R. - NY Daily News - Corky Siemaszko - Nov 20, 1995
Puerto Rico in Fear of Killer Beast - Philadelphia Daily News - Nov 20, 1995
Doctor Contradicts Chupacabras - Iowa Press-Citizen - Jan 16, 1996
The Weird Tale of the Goatsucker - David Adams - St. Petersburg Times - Mar 21, 1996
Into the Yard it Creeps… - Alisa Valdes - Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Apr 28, 1996
Tale of Creature Discomforts - Alisa Valdes - Boston Globe - Apr 13, 1996
Town Celebrates Fabled Goat Sucker - Associated Press - Aug 10, 1996
How the Chupacabra Saga Has Taken over Mexico - Miami Herald - Mark Fineman - May 21, 1996
Chupacabra Shakes Up Nicaragua - Diana Washington Valdez - El Paso Times - Sep 11, 2000
Revisiting the Time… Killed a 'chupacabra'...- Camille Sauers - My San Antonio - Jul 30, 2021
Texan Claims She's Found… Chupacabra - Elizabeth White - The Spokesman-Review - Sep 2, 2007
It's Not "Chupacabra," Just A Coyote - CBS News - Nov 2, 2007
El Chupacabra Mystery Solved: Case of Mistaken Identity - Bjorn Carey - Live Science - Mar 22, 2011
On the Trail of the Chupacabra - Brian Dunning - Skeptoid - Jan 18, 2022
¡El Chupacabra! - The Science Behind a Latin American Mystery - Texas A&M - 2017
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