Chupacabra Sightings

A Polk County resident filmed and uploaded video of a nocturnal hairless dog-like creature seen multiple times near their property, fitting the chupacabra-type profile that has spread across Florida's Nature Coast.

Source: https://www.visitthenaturecoast.com/chupacabra-seen-on-floridas-nature-coast

Jackie Stock and her husband captured a hairless creature with a 'hairless back, large claws and countless teeth' eating corn in a tree; Texas Parks & Wildlife identified it as a raccoon with mange.

Source: https://kfor.com/news/texas-couple-says-they-captured-a-chupacabra-pictures-as-proof/

A local woman filmed a hairless, mangy-looking quadruped wandering her neighborhood; Mississippi wildlife officials identified it as a sick coyote, but residents called it a chupacabra.

Source: http://www.epicadamwildlife.com/2016/09/27/8-mysterious-chupacabra-sightings

In 2010 villagers in western Ukraine reported a chupacabra-like creature suffocating and draining rabbits and chickens; subsequent searches by authorities turned up no animal.

Source: https://remezcla.com/culture/chupacabras-latin-america-ukraine/

In July 2010 animal control officers in Hood County shot a hairless, gray, dog-like animal blamed for chupacabra-style livestock attacks; a second was reportedly killed miles away. Texas A&M later identified it as a coyote-canine hybrid with mange.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/chupacabras-mysterious-animals-spotted-texas/story?id=11165688

Taxidermist Jerry Ayer obtained a hairless blue-gray carcass shot near Blanco that was mounted as the 'Blanco Texas Chupacabra' and sold to the Lost World Museum for university DNA testing.

Source: https://www.ksat.com/news/2009/09/01/texas-man-says-he-has-mythical-chupacabra/

DeWitt County deputy sheriff Brandon Riedel filmed a hairless coyote-sized animal with long hind legs and a long snout from his patrol car dashboard camera; suspected by Sheriff Jode Zavesky to be the same hybrid type previously found in 2007.

Source: https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/caught-on-tape-the-chupacabra-2008-deputy-dashboard-camera-case/

Rancher Phylis Canion found three 40-pound hairless blue-grey carcasses with overbites and elephant-like skin near her ranch; DNA later returned coyote/Mexican wolf hybrid results.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2007/09/05/14183447/woman-claims-to-find-mythical-chupacabra

Following a decade of relative quiet, a rancher near Piedras Negras documented fifteen goats and three sheep killed overnight in a manner consistent with 1996 reports — bilateral puncture wounds, minimal blood, no disturbance to enclosure fencing. Photographs of the carcasses circulated on social media and were examined by a Monterrey veterinary faculty member who ruled out known predators.

Source: https://mythologyworldwide.com/chupacabra-in-mexico-from-aztec-legends-to-modern-sightings/

Following first reports in March 2005, a Central Russian flap saw 32 turkeys and 30 sheep found drained of blood; researcher Vadim Chernobrov tied it to a wider Kharkiv-Russia-Belarus zone of attacks.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/sheep-killing-vampire-chupacabra-773/

Beginning around March 2005 and recurring through 2010-12, farmers in central Russia from Chelyabinsk to Moscow Oblast found livestock — sheep, turkeys — drained of blood with neck punctures and otherwise intact, blamed locally on a 'chupacabra'.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/sheep-killing-vampire-chupacabra-773/

Rancher Jorge Luis Talavera shot what he claimed was a chupacabra after roughly 25 of his sheep and 35 of a neighbor's were drained of blood at the San Lorenzo farm; UNAN-León scientists later identified the carcass as a dog.

Source: http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/chupa/chupacabras.dwt

Rancher Sergio Murillo reported a close-range encounter with a creature near his sheep pen he described as approximately four feet tall, bipedal, with glowing red eyes and dark rough skin. Several sheep were found dead with puncture wounds and little blood remaining. The Córdoba incidents in 2000 were among the most widely reported Argentine chupacabra cases and were investigated by local agricultural authorities and national press.

Source: https://www.pararational.com/ucumar-south-americas-bigfoot/

From April through September 2000, more than 800 farm animals near the mining city of Calama were found drained of blood with puncture wounds; rumors of three captured creatures loaded into NASA-marked containers fueled the panic.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Two goats were killed and a third drained of blood at a farm near Loíza around 2 a.m.; a small kid was carried off, prompting renewed local police investigation.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

A farmer in the Antioquia highlands reported 14 sheep killed overnight in a manner consistent with chupacabra attacks described elsewhere in Latin America — two puncture wounds at the neck, carcasses drained of blood, no visible predator tracks. The regional newspaper El Colombiano covered the incident as part of a broader wave of similar reports across northern Colombia during 1997.

Source: https://northamericancryptids.com/chupacabra/

Following the 1995-1996 Puerto Rico and Mexico waves, livestock owners in the Cundinamarca savanna around Bogotá filed reports of goats and chickens found dead with bilateral puncture wounds and little to no blood remaining. The incidents were reported in the national press as part of the spread of chupacabra panic across Latin America and investigated by local agricultural authorities who found no conventional explanation.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

A farmer in San Luis Potosí state reported finding eleven rabbits and four chickens dead in their enclosures on consecutive mornings, each with two small puncture wounds and no blood remaining. The farmer stated he observed a small bipedal creature with large red eyes in his headlights fleeing the property on the second night, consistent with earlier 1990s descriptions from Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Source: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Mexicoweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Mexico14.htm

In May 1996 ranchers near Agua Prieta in Sonora reported numerous animals drained of blood with similar puncture wounds, part of the chupacabra wave sweeping northern Mexico.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

On May 12, 1996, ranchers in Chiapas discovered 28 rams dead in a single overnight incident, each with two small puncture marks at the neck and virtually no blood remaining in the carcasses. The scale of the event was the largest single-night incident reported during the 1996 Mexican wave and drew coverage from the national press.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

In the early hours of May 9, 1996, a family in the Monterrey metropolitan area reported that something opened their front door. A creature described as three to four feet tall with scaly skin, clawed hands, red eyes, and a row of spines running from the skull to the base of the back entered the home. A seven-year-old child said the creature stood on his bed and briefly on his chest. Both family members noted a strong wet-dog smell throughout the encounter.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

On May 3, 1996, ranchers near Agua Prieta reported multiple animals found drained of blood overnight, with identical small puncture wounds clustered at the throat. A vague report of a human victim was investigated but unconfirmed. The incidents were part of a coordinated wave of reports filed across six Mexican states on the same date.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

Reports of dead cattle and sheep filed from Sinaloa state on May 3, 1996, described a creature witnesses estimated at one to one-and-a-half feet in height capable of taking flight. The animal left no visible tracks despite soft ground around several carcasses. Local press described the incidents as part of the expanding nationwide chupacabra panic.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

On May 2, 1996, residents of Ciudad Juárez reported a series of small mammal and dog kills with puncture wounds consistent with chupacabra attacks documented weeks earlier in Puerto Rico. Animal control officers documented the carcasses but found no tracks or evidence of a known predator responsible for the pattern of exsanguination.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

In early 1996, during a period of severe drought across Brazil, livestock deaths consistent with chupacabra attacks were reported in and around Varginha. The city gained international attention that same year when multiple witnesses reported encounters with an unidentified creature, and local authorities investigated reports of animals found drained of blood with bilateral puncture wounds. Brazilian media covered the incidents extensively as part of the broader Latin American wave.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Madelyne Tolentino reported seeing a four-foot bipedal creature with spiny back, three-fingered claws and red eyes through her window — the foundational sighting that birthed the chupacabra legend after months of livestock exsanguinations.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

Farmer Juan Cedeño reported the first formally named 'Chupacabra' attack: eight sheep killed with three puncture wounds in a triangular pattern, kicking off the modern Puerto Rico panic.

Source: https://www.princeton.edu/~accion/chupa21.html

Beginning in 1991, residents of Turner reported a husky-like beast with bulky shoulders, flat snout, and bushy tail killing pets. The 'Turner Beast' carcass struck by a car on Route 4 in 2006 was later DNA-typed as a wolf-dog hybrid.

Source: https://www.sunjournal.com/2006/08/16/mysterious-beast/