Mythical Beast?

When Phylis Canion found a strange animal dead outside her Cuero, Texas, ranch in August 2007, she thought it was a chupacabra, the mysterious beast blamed for killing 30 of her chickens. The state mammalogist suffested it was more likely to be gray fox suffering from an extreme case of mange.

What is Chupacabra?

Nobody knows for sure whether the chupacabra is an undiscovered breed of animal or just a myth. The chupacabra gets its name, which is spanish for "goat sucker", from its habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock. Dozens of sightings of the beast have been reported from Maine to Chile. Descriptions of it vary from a hairless dog-like creature to a spiny reptile that hops like a kangaroo and has red glowing eyes. Some witnesses claim that it has wings. In 2006, a farmer from Coleman, Texas, killed a weird creature that mauled some of his chickens and turkeys. It was described as a cross between a dog, a rat, and a kangaroo, but was thrown out with the trash. Around the same time an evil looking, rodent like creature with fangs was found dead alongside a road near Turner, Maine, but the carcass was picked clean by vultures before anyone could examine it. In 2004, a rancher near San antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog creature that was attacking his livestock. The elmendorf beast, as it became known, was infact a coyote.