Breaking: Campeche Chupacabras
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 6th, 2008
Chupacabras reappears in Champotón, Campeche, Mexico; it kills 9 birds.
Chupacabras reappeared in the municipality of Champotón, where it left dead eight hens and a turkey and without blood, but also a live rooster, in the house of Aurelio Tamay.
The birds were inside the hen house, where the entity or unknown arrived and sucked the blood from them and later escapes without leaving sign.
Tamay narrated that the dawn of the past Sunday [March 30, 2008] he listened to a great uproar and something like roars in the patio of his house. He went to investigate and in the penumbra he saw an animal of strange form that moved away.
The neighbors said that he is the Chupacabras, because the attack to the fowl has the same characteristics of when some years ago animal slaughters were registered in other parts of the country.
Alarmed by the strange event, several people integrated a brigade to look in bordering hills of the city, but they did not find anything.
The facts happened in the house of the family Tamay Ac, located in street 18 by 19, colony the Beach, in Champotón – distant coastal locality 75 kilometers to the north of this capital and nobody has explained how it is that the rooster survived the attack of this being.
The settlers assure that he is the Chupacabras, because the attacks to the hens and the turkey have the same characteristics of previous slaughters of goats, yearling calves and animals of corral.
The owner of the birds speaks
Tamay insisted on to have listened to uproar and a roar in the patio, and when leaving, it saw to an animal moving away. Later it discovered its destroyed birds and without blood, it related.
“The rare thing” Tamay declared – is that there were no tracks of which the animal has entered into the hen house, but the four hens that were inside had died in the same way that those of outside.
The case has become a mystery that caused commotion in Champotón. The neighbors of the colony the Beach have declared their fear by the supposed presence of chupacabras and they are already taking their precautions to avoid more attacks.
So far, all birds and animals have been protected inside of the houses, and a brigade crosses the streets by the nights with poles and machetes to catch or to kill the assumed chupacabras.
The family Tamay Ac requested additional surveillance by the police, whose agents indicated that until now there are no signs of Chupacabras.
Francisco Ynurreta
El Universal ~ Friday, April 04, 2008
Credit and translated by Marco Ronquillo
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Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
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I can see a whole new fast food chain: Chupie’s Chicken. That’s a lot of chickens to eat. 😀 Perhaps some will be saved for later? BTW, traduccion por Babelfish?
Hopefully it’s not a coyote. But you think for a moment. Can a coyote drink blood? The only animal capable of drinking blood is a vampire bat.
The only part of this whole story that has me curious is the no tracks thing. If something is big enough to “roar” and wake up the owner–it should be big enough to leave some tracks. The no blood thing we already figured out that a feline finding a main artery will get the prey to drain themselves and lap it all up. Of course a feline leaving the chickens in one piece, that’s quite amazing.
It sounds like there are vampires on the loose in Mexico.
You never know it could be a ‘Supa Dupa Chupa’ …
not a whole lot of evidence to go on, but i am not writing it off completely…
have cats ever been documented as being blood drainers?
Cryptid Hunt21 wrote: “The only animal capable of drinking blood is a vampire bat.”
Really? I thought female mosquitoes, leeches, and several other animals drink blood…
I dunno. Sometimes I think maybe Chupa is really a lil alien in a ‘predator’ type suit, harvesting folk medicinal ingredients such as chicken blood and cow eyes.
Don’t they have vampire bats in the area? Wouldn’t a chicken, especially a rooster, in an attack situation make noises that might be mistaken for a roar?
Santo contra las mujeres vampiro, por favor! 😀
I’m sure someone has mentioned this, but could it possibly be a weasel type animal? A regionally confused fisher cat? We used to have chickens and one day we found all of them dead with no heads and drained of blood. Eventually we trapped the fisher cat. I never heard it, but my father said the call of a fisher cat is the most blood curdling thing he’s ever heard in his life. Granted a fisher can’t take down large game, but it’s modus operandi when it comes to chickens is the same.
Mmm.. how about that? And me thinking the only blood-suckers left in my country were our politicians! 😉
Ben, I meant other animals around that area that kill drink chickens blood. A mosquito can’t kill and rip apart chickens but to me the closet suspect is a vampire bat.
cryptid hunt21 said he thought the closest suspect was a vampire bat I don’t think that a littel bat could kill 8 chickens and a turkey and bats don’t roar
unless it was more than one bat…
no tracks is interesting, but again, we have very little info to make any kind of informed decision…no real description on the roar, the figure, the chickens–I would like to know if they were completely drained, partially or what…and were all organs in place–(or am I just getting gross now:)
not to mention rough size of the animal moving away, shape, etc. did it move on all fours, bipedal, floating…flying like a giant vampire bat fading away into the mist, what…
the problem with chupacabras is you have a lot of mythology that has built up around it so it’s hard to know what is myth and what is really going on…and these days, every dead animal within a thousand miles of the southwest is blamed on the chupacabras.
Alright, enough soap boxing, let’s go find the thing…
This thing can’t be a normal vampire bat, because normal vampires are tiny. Also, they don’t suck blood; known vampire bats make a small incision in the flesh of much larger animals and lap up the flowing blood, no sucking involved. The victimized animals are generally asleep and don’t feel the slash of the sharp, tiny teeth. In order for this to have been done by some sort of unknown vampire bat, the thing would have had to be the size of a Great Dane (because of the blood volume taken). And I’m not necessarily ruling that out; I believe all or the vast majority of the pterosaur sightings from around the world are giant, unknown bats. Maybe chupacabras are giant vampire bats, or something similar. Oversize owls with a specialized method of extracting blood, maybe?
As to why the rooster was left unharmed, the simplest answer is that the marauder was full by the time it got to him. Most animals don’t kill or molest unnecessarily.
The roar reported may even have been the sound of huge wings beating against the air.
graybear makes a reaaallllly good point on the bat front–namely that vampire bats usually go after larger animals like cattle, and they don’t drain the host dry, they just feed and then leave.
Whatever killed the chickens drained the blood, killed the host—
also the roar, well it could have been from something different altogether only associated with the culprit because of proximity–who knows…like I said above, with so few real facts it’s hard to sift anything out and figure out what is at work…with no tracks…I don’t know what to say about that…maybe something that flies or jumps, or maybe the guy didn’t look closely enough or maybe wiped out the bulk of the tracks when he went to investigate.
Then again, maybe we something really weird going on 🙂
I’m just not realy on the bat band wagon I’m still thinking about some other culprit…
and i think that if the animal the chickens owner saw “moving away” was flying they would have probably told us that.
By the looks of it, this creature is a mix between a wolf and a kangaroo. Look at the long slender legs, perfect for hopping. It probably wouldnt have survived the Texas heat if it was a hairy beast. I dont know who drew the alien on kangaroo legs (thats not what a chupa looks like!) Ive also heard a chupacaroo called a Wolf-a-roo, a chupacaroo, and Chupie.