Chupacabra Adopted as City Mascot
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 24th, 2010
Loren will love this one… 🙂
Fort Worth has the historic Stockyards. San Antonio has the Alamo. Runaway Bay has the chupacabra.
That’s right. The chupacabra. The legendary goat-sucker.
On Tuesday night, the Runaway Bay City Council passed a resolution that would make the chupacabra the city’s official mascot.
“We take the business of Runaway Bay seriously,” Greg Leveling, city administrator. “We saw an opportunity to have a little fun with the situation that happened here in January, and it’s taken on a life of it’s own.”
Someone found the carcass of a hairless, odd-looking beast on the 14th hole of city’s golf course in January. When pictures were published in the Wise County Messenger, residents started saying the creature looked like the famed chupacabra.
Animal experts later said the beast was really just a diseased raccoon. But Runaway Bay residents say the attention was great for the city.
“We are already internationally famous,” Beth Anderson said. “We were on Google.”
The council credited Anderson with the idea to name the chupacabra the city’s mascot.
City leaders plan to put an image of the animal on T-shirts that will be sold at the annual Independence Day celebration. Leveling said some of the proceeds from the T-shirt sales would help Runaway Bay Alliance, a local charity.
The city resolution also protects the chupacabra. Residents joke that that’s a good thing, — just in case any others are in the area.
“I have great concern for the little critter. Actually, I think I have a den of them behind my house, and I was quite worried because we do have hunters in the neighborhood,” Anderson said with a grin.
“This community started as ‘run away to Runaway Bay,'” Leveling said. “What I can tell you is, when you run away to Runaway Bay, you have a better than average chance of finding the dreaded and legendary chupacabra.”
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Well if any cryptid gets found and reconized first it wil probally be the chupacabra…..also i would like to conclude that they didnt do a dna test on the “chupacabra” how do they know its just a dog?