chupacabra

Since the 1970's, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico has witnessed some

decidedly bizarre events featuring a mystifying entity called the chupacabra

("goatsucker"). Some people think it is a creature from the forest, some

believe it is an alien, while others believe it is an experiment gone wrong

that escaped from a lab. The chupacabra(s) have been blamed for the

deaths of many dogs, cats, and livestock animals, even creatures

as large as cattle and horses, whose grossly mutilated corpses have later been found

drained of blood and occasionally missing various body organs that have been ripped out.

In one strange incident from this particular category of chupacabras reports, however, the "victim" was a stuffed teddy
bear, which the creature had reputedly destroyed at a house in Caguas before leaving behind a slimy puddle and a piece
of rancid white meat on the window.

Attacks upon humans are described in a report by man by the name of Scott Corrales, called "The Chupacabra Diaries."
At 6 am on March 26, 1995, Jaime Torres was walking through a field containing a flock of sheep owned by farmer
Enrique Barreto or Orocovis when he allegedly saw a chupacabras lying along a branch on a nearby tree, looking down at
him. According to Torres, it had a round head, dark gray face, elongated black eyes, delicate jaw and small mouth. Even
more distinctive, was its pigmentation. Just like a surrealistic chameleon it changed color even as Torres stared at it,
fluctuating from purple to brown to yellow. Yet its most bizarre talent was still to be revealed. Suddenly, as Torres continued
to look up at it, the chupacabra's head began to rock from side to side and the creature emitted an eerie hissing sound, as
it did so, Torres became very dizzy, almost fainting. Losing no time, the creature dropped down from the tree and rapidly
disappeared through the undergrowth, leaving its queasy observer far behind.

In the same area as Torres's experience, a police officer had been investigating a dead sheep on Barreto's estate when
he spied a bipedal creature, 3-4 feet tall (1 meter), with right orange-yellow eyes peering at him from a shadowy area
nearby. When the officer attempted to pursue this apparent chupacabra, he was instantly overcome by an overwhelming
feeling of nausea and headache that he was forced to abandon the chase and needed to be assisted by his partner back
to their patrol car.

Another incident is the by Mrs. Quinones of Naranjito. She had recently seen a chupacabra the height of a three-year-old
child, standing by some hedged. True to form, it's gaze cause her to feel so nauseous that she was unable to follow when it
fled away. Based on numerous eyewitnesses, chupacabras' stand about 3-5 feet tall (1-1.5 meters), with large slanted
eyes (sometimes said to glow orange or red), bare holes instead of lobed ears, tiny holes in place of true nostrils and a
small lip-less mouth. It has thin arms with three clawed fingers on each hand and muscular legs with three clawed toes on
each foot (similar to the Lizard Man of South Carolina). Its furry body is gray mottled with dark blotches, and glowing spines
run from the crown of its head down the entire length of its back and continuously change color.