The legend of the chupacabra is one of those modern day stories, the kind most scientifically minded people discount completely. It all started in 1995 in Puerto Rico when a farmer found eight of his sheep dead, seemingly drained of all their blood via three puncture wounds on the neck. Since then, reports of chupacabra have emerged everywhere from as far north as Maine and all the way south to Chile, including Mexico. Several interested parties have tried solving the mystery, including Benjamin Radford, journalist for Skeptical Inquirer (a science publication), Pensar (an Argentinian magazine), Discovery News, and Live Science.
The word "chupacabra" is Spanish for goat sucker, and the name given to this legendary creature by Silverio Perez, a Latin American comedian. Attacks by chupacabra on farm animals, appeared in the media every week during the 1990's. During a single night, a little village in Puerto Rico is said to have had 150 animals drained of blood. Animals are found headless; while other animals have been drained of blood. It is all very mysterious and quite gruesome!
Initial investigations pointed the finger at so-called "Satan worship", yet that theory has never been definitely proven. One of the noted investigations was carried out by the journalist Benjamin Radford. He went so far as heading up an expedition in Nicaragua in search of the creature, after he spent five years re-interviewing witnesses, and traveling to 'crime' scenes within Mexico. The first person that Radford talked to, that was supposed to have seen a chupacabra in the flesh, gave an unusual description of the creature. Apparently, the witness described the chupacabra's appearance as being the same as the predatory creature, Sil, in the 1995 film, Species. Two creatures, one in a movie and one supposedly sucking the blood of farm animals in Mexico and Puerto Rico, and they just happen to look the same? Right.
By the end of Radford's investigation he found hard evidence proving the truth behind the deaths of the farm animals all over Latin America, and published a book documenting it all. Radford's book, Tracking the Chupacabra: In 2011, a book was published called Tracking the Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore. What better reading material for a poolside afternoon at a Mexico resort?
It is a part of the human psyche to attach importance to ghost and vampire stories, and they seem to be a part of every culture. Ghosts of unbaptized children are thought to spook horses in their stables in Southern Louisiana, where they braid the manes and tails of the animals. In Scotland, there is the famous Lochness Monster that many have seen, but no one has caught. Maybe the chupacabra is real, maybe it isn't; but you will have to read Radford's book to find out!
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