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The Chupacabra is a cryptid whose first known sightings occurred in Puerto Rico during the 1970s, with subsequent eyewitness accounts in the mid-1990s causing scares in Florida and Mexico. It has ... been reported in the American Southwest. The reports have spread around the world, particularly in Spanish-speaking areas. While not as well known as Bigfoot, it has become a cultural phenomenon, inspiring appearances in songs, movies, and comic books.
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The Chupacabra, Spanish for "goat sucker", first made the news in 1994, after several attacks were reported in Puerto Rico. The following year, in August of 1995, 150 animals were attacked in Canvanas, Puerto Rico, and according to reports, similar attacks have since been reported from Mexico, Central America, South America, and Chile, to the Southern United States.
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The Chupacabra (literally "goat-sucker") is a reptillian vampire-like creature local to Latin America that feeds off the blood of livestock, especially goats. The appearance varies from each story, but common features include pale reptile skin, large fangs, and rainbow-colored quills on its back. Sightings began in Puerto Rico in the early 1990's, and have since been reported in various parts of South America, Mexico, and the southern United States.
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Before its latest northern migration, alleged attacks of the Chupacabra, or "the Goat Sucker," first appeared in the 1960s in Mexico and Puerto Rico. An impressive series of attacks plagued the Mexican livestock in the 1990s and the Chupacabra was termed "the single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade" by America's leading cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.
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Chupacabra first made the headlines in 1995, when several attacks were reported in Puerto Rico. The small island still claims the most number of attacks to date, but slaughtered chickens, ducks, goats, cats, dogs and other small animals have been attributed to Chupacabra in Mexico, Central America, South America and even parts of the Southern United States.
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The first sightings of the chupacabra were reported in Puerto Rico in the late 1950s. Since then, many have reported seeing the creature in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and the southern United States (although some have even "appeared" in the Northern regions of Maine and Russia).
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