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Chupacabra: Is The Cryptid Vampire Actually Real? History & Sightings Categories PARANORMAL Post date JUNE 24, 2022 Comments 0 COMMENTS In the late nineties, stories were raging in the American South about a creature that attacked livestock and drank blood. At the time, living in the North, I didn’t worry about it too much. Even though we indeed lived on a livestock farm. Sure the stories were creepy, but I didn’t start putting much weight on them until I moved to the South in my late teen years. And realized the tales of El Chupacabra might not be too far from the truth, after all. Let’s explore the history, origins, and modern sightings of the blood-sucking Chupacabra. What is El Chupacabra? El Chupacabra, when translated, means goat sucker in Spanish. But this isn’t just a person or animal that goes around sucking on goats harmlessly for fun. El Chupacabra is the name given to a creature that’s said to hunt livestock and domestic pets, puncture their skin with its teeth or fangs, and drain them of their blood. When dead livestock is found, eyewitnesses say they have small circular incisions somewhere on their bodies. Probably from which they drink the blood. Eyewitnesses have seen two different creatures, or at least, their appearance shows some marked differences. Perhaps they’re the same being, though. Some say it’s a grey-scaled, lizard-looking creature that stands on its hind legs and jumps from place to place. And that it stands between 4 and 5 feet tall. Others say it walks on 4 legs and has more of a greenish-tint to it’s skin. Most eyewitnesses agree it has fangs, spines down its back, and claws. Glowing red eyes are sometimes also an added feature. Some say they use their eyes to hypnotize their prey, rendering them unable to run away or fight back. They emit a sulphuric odor and screech when surprised. I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever want to see a creature like this when I look out my window. But that’s exactly what happened to Madelyne Tolentino in the 90s… Stories of the Vampiric Chupacabra Spread According to some sources, the sightings of el chupacabra actually began as early as the 1950’s throughout the United States. Most believe the creature is centered mostly in the Southern U.S. and Central America; however, one of my sources claim it’s been seen all over the United States as far north as New Jersey. Interestingly though, I also found links to the Jersey Devil, so this may just be a case of misidentification between cryptids. The Chupacabra Panic of the ’90s What really started the el chupacabra craze was a Puerto Rican woman’s sighting of the creature in 1995. Madelyne Tolentino heard a noise outside her bedroom window one night. When she peered out, she was confronted with an image that’s been burned in her brain ever since – a monstrous, terrifying goat sucker. I don’t think she realized this scaly red-eyed thing that stood on its hind legs had anything to do with the hundreds of livestock and pets killed in her area recently. Following her claim, dozens of people came forward with their experiences. I recall people in the southern U.S. were pretty freaked out at this point and were guarding their livestock with care. Hoping the blood-sucking chupacabra wouldn’t come for their goats, cows, dogs and cats next. Since the 1990s, el chupacabra has been sighted and has attacked in Mexico, the Southern U.S. including Texas, Florida, Arizona and New Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Chile. In 2007, a woman in Texas claimed to have found an animal that had been stalking her property, killing cats and sucking blood from chickens. Since the sighting, Texas has become a sort of chupacabra hotbed of activity. Coincidentally, there have also been numerous chupacabra carcasses found in the lone star state. At least presumed to be the dead bodies of chupacabra. Scientists claim these carcasses are actually the bodies of dead coyotes, sometimes raccoons, with severe cases of mange (more on this later). But for me, I can’t get past the way in which the livestock and pets are killed. The circular incisions or puncture wounds and then the blood being seemingly drained from the bodies. To me, this points to something more unnatural. More sinister. I can picture an emaciated, hairless coyote as being the root to the chupacabra legend, can you? Other Vampiric Creatures in American Folklore In doing some research on vampiric creatures in the Americas, I found el chupacabra isn’t the first or the only one. The Chonchon of the Mapuche region is a witch or sorcerer with shapeshifting abilities. He or she chooses to transform into a vampiric, bird-like monster. Often it’s also depicted as the sorcerer’s head separated from its body and transformed with wings. It carries itself around on the wind, searching for ill or sleeping people from which to suck their blood and energy. Similar to the skinwalkers in the American south, also being dark sorcerers with shapeshifting abilities. These abilities give t...

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