A few weeks ago on the topic of "Mystery creature found" somebody mentioned that another strange animal was found. Some thought it was the Cupacabra creature. I first heard of the the Chupacabra on the Animal Planet t.v. show "Animal X" and during the episode it showed a picture of what the creature looked like. It was a photograph that scared the hell out of me. (At the bottom is a link to a site that features the picture. You have to scroll down the site to the bottom to see the picture.) I've always thought of the picture as being a fake, thinking it was a close up of somekind of fish that looked similar to it. Then I noticed that it seemed to have arms, thus not a fish creature. Can anybody tell me if this is a real photograph or is it just a real animal with mange or is it just a prop that some guy made. Your opinions?
http://www.oftm.com/chupa.htm
(careful the picture is kinda scary)
I Couldn't get the link to work. Do you have another one?
That picture looks like it's a statue of some kind. This link works:
http://www.oftm.com/chupa.html
I couldn't get the link to work either. As reported on the link I had in the other post about this a guy in Elmendorf , Texas (somewhere near San Antonio) shot a strange animal which some people said was a chupacabra. He said 35 of his chickens were killed , but he shot the thing while it was eating mulberries. Evidently he buried it and some paranormal investigation group is paying to have it dug up to have a DNA analysis run on it .
The 'creature' in Maryland ended up being a fox with a bad case of scabies.
Ha! Ha! Ohhh man, that's too funny... ; ) Now, has anybody seen Chupacabra the movie? I had thought about renting it as a joke.
He's just a cool goat sucking alien/lizard. Probably my favorite mysterious monster. If he wants to go around biting and drinking blood from chickens and goats I think that's kind of cool at least.
When I first heard Art Bell's show, he was fixated on the "Goat sucker" and some photos of the thing making the rounds, and seemed genuinely upset when they were revealed as fakes. Until I see a captured live one or lots of photos a dead one in the mainstream press, I say it's a fake just like Bigfoot, Nessie, the Yeti, the Jersey Devil, and any other modern mythical creature that hangs around in urban legends and such.
And the one in the link's picture looks like it could be a prop from an imaginary Fred Olen Ray movie.
I used to work at Toys R Us part time for extra cash and I had the good luck to get to work in the toy section for boys and young men.
There's a toyline of "Urban Legend" creatures and the Chupacabra was one of them.
Among them are the:
Chupacabra
Mothman
Missouri Monster(Momo)
The Jersey Devil
Those are from series one.
Series 2 includes:
Dover Demon
The Yeti
Flattwoods Monsters
Loveland Frogmen
They're neat but a little too small.
There about the size of a G.I. Joe action figure. (the newer ones, not the huge ones)
Here's some pics:
(http://www.figures.com/archives/images/62/25162.jpg)
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Yaddo42:
I figured it was a prop of somesort and yet-in the back of my mind...It still gives me the hippie jippies. But I sometimes wondered how the heck that the guy got the picture. Did some police officers find a camera with a severed bloody hand on it? Which was the aftermath of some poor fool who had only a few seconds before the Chupacabra tore him from limb to limb. Or did the picture taker stumble into a house, his face and body covered in blood with long scratchs and teeth marks in his flesh. All he can say is "Chupacabra" before he hands his camera over to a horror striken young woman that cannot let the howl of terror out of her throat. The man collapes into a bloody heap and dies within seconds. Nobody had the chance to ask him where he found the Chupacabra and thus we'll never know the location of it's den or where it was heading to next. Or some geeky young man entered a newspaper place, showed the editor a picture and said "Chupacabra,prove,money, Star Trek Models,now."
Say-I should be a Game Master for Dungeons and Dragons...or the narrator on the Twilight Zone.
That is one weird picture...
There was an x-files episode about the chupacabra in season one or two. Of course the x-files cupacabra was a human mutated by extraterrestrial mold, but it was a pretty good episode.
>There's a toyline of "Urban Legend" creatures and the Chupacabra was one of
>them.
Mezco, the company that produced them, only lists Bigfoot, Mothman and The Jersey Devil;
Urban Legends figures (http://www.mezcotoyz.com/allproducts.asp?pline=crypto)
Personally, I like the pre-production artwork better than the actual figures.
A chupacabra turned up lurking in Brock Sampson's car on "The Venture Bros." this weekend. It attacked Dr. Venture only to be quickly knifed by Brock. I liked his dismissive comment after he killed it and explained what it was to the Dr., that they were all over in Mexico (where the episode was set). Cool new show, hope it lasts on Adult Swim.
looks an awful lot like the animatronic bats from the movie Bats.
The goat sucker. I always wondered how the X-Files could get away with what it does whenever there are Mexicans on it. Premise of that episode seemed to be that Mexicans are super-flaky, volatile, retarded drama-queens, turning everything into one of their soap-operas. They see a guy with some goo on his head and it's "Aiieeee, la chupacabra!!!!!".
The Jersey Devil seems a lot like the Chupacabra to me, maybe they use the same toy for both. Both answer to wildly varying descriptions that vary from dragon to sasquatch.
>The Jersey Devil seems a lot like the Chupacabra to me
The X-Files had a Jersey Devil episode too. Turned out to be a wild girl covered in hair.
Makes me want to pull out the "Legend of the Chupacabra" DVD again.
Does X-Files ever make a really cool episode out of a monster? It's always just a Native American girl covered in hair. Stupid show.
The two most impressive x-files monsters I can remember were in the werewolf episode (very reminicient of An American Werewolf in Paris), and the flukeman from The Host episode. They actually turned out to be real grose monsters, not like the Chupacabra or the Jersy Devil.
Fluke man was good, except that so many of the subsequent monster episodes drew too heavily on that and Tooms, the liver-eating plastic man. I just saw a rerun of a really good episode that took place in a trailer park full of circus freaks. Mulder had lots of good lines. There was a geek tatooed like a jiggsaw puzzle all over. Turned out to be kind of like "Basket Case". Spooky, end of "Strawbery Fields Forever" flutey-type music that they didn't use in very many episodes.
Good X-Files monsters that I can remember off the top of my head:
- Vampire pizza-boy.
- The alien locked up in that secret train car in the two-part episode where the guy attacks Mulder with the garrote.
- Giovanni Ribbisi IS... ELECTRICAL BOY!!! Jack Black is his sidekick! Great episode, no one seems to remember it but me. When I describe it, it sounds really generic and lame. Maybe more of a mutant than a monster though.
- The succubus, or whatever, that framed Skinner for murder.
For some reason, it's easier to remember the lame ones.
Hey Dave, do you remember who Skinner was supposed to have murdered. Actually I 'm talking about the actress playing the part. She has been on a popular show for several years now.
No idea. I might have recognized her last time I saw the rerun, but I don't remember now.
>There was a geek tatooed like a jiggsaw puzzle all over.
Little piece of trivia: The tattoos were real and that guy's name is The Enigma. The new Ripley's Believe it or Not had him on and he had even more of his body tattooed blue. He had also had implants inder the skin on his head so that he looked like he had horns.
Trivia #2: Gillian Anderson ate a live cricket during rehearsal, and offered to do it on-camera as well, but supposedly they had gone out of their way to make edible fake crickets and wanted to use them, or so the story goes...
Scarier pic:
http://www.mysticaluniverse.com/mystical_creatures/chupacabra/chasightings/roh_/ghost.jpg
I swear, hat pic scared the crap outta me when I saw it first. I still can't look "it" in the eyes...
Flukeman was the one I thought of too. There's a non-monster that's pretty creepy- the necropheliac that almost got Scully. He wasn't a monster, but he might as well have been!
The one with the jigsaw puzzle tattooed on him is called "The Enigma". He was part of the traveling freak show "The Jim Rose Circus" for years. Several guys from the show were in that episode.
Yeah, and Eugene Tooms from Squeeze was pretty creepy too... but I could go on for ages about the x-files. I was a really big fan years ago when they started. Pitty it went to hell like just about every other good TV show.