The Morphing of the Mythical Chupacabra


For decades now, stories of a “mystery beast” with a penchant for blood have lingered in various parts of the Americas. Known as the “chupacabra” in the Latin American world, the monster is said to stalk various livestock, particularly goats (it’s name translates to mean “goat sucker” in English), and exsanguinate its victims, leaving a bloodless corpse to be found by startled farmers the following morning.

The legend of the chupacabra has its beginnings in Puerto Rico during the middle 1990s, as researchers that included Georgé Martín began to collect reports of a strange, smallish humanoid to which livestock deaths had been attributed. Earlier reports from the 1970s, namely that of a strange “vampire” attacking animals near Moca, Puerto Rico, did bear a number of similarities to the modern chupacabra reports, as did similar livestock deaths associated with cattle mutilations in the United States.

So at what point did the famous Puerto Rican goat suckers transmogrify into what look more like mangey dogs than anything startling and “alien”? 

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