Chupacabra? What the heck is that?

[daveblackeye15]

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)

[Tilebreaker]

I Couldn't get the link to work. Do you have another one?

[odinn7]

That picture looks like it's a statue of some kind. This link works:
http://www.oftm.com/chupa.html

[trekgeezer]

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.

[Sugar_Nads]

Ha! Ha! Ohhh man, that's too funny...  ;  ) Now, has anybody seen Chupacabra the movie? I had thought about renting it as a joke.

[StatCat]

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.

[Yaddo42]

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.

[Ash]

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:




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[daveblackeye15]

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.

[IguanaGirl]

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.

[JohnL]

>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

Personally, I like the pre-production artwork better than the actual figures.

[Yaddo42]

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.

[Mr. Hockstatter]

looks an awful lot like the animatronic bats from the movie Bats.

[Dave Munger]

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.

[JohnL]

>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.