Chupacabra Found in Texas?

Posted by Alex in Animal, Paranormal, Pictures on September 2, 2007 at 12:37 pm



Photo: Eric Gay/AP

Was the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra found (at last) in Texas?

Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

"It is one ugly creature," Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals over four days in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 80 miles southeast of San Antonio. Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she can get to get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.

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37 comments to "Chupacabra Found in Texas?"

  1. ImNoMrNiceGuy
    September 2nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    He's still licking his lips...

  2. SenorMysterioso
    September 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    poor doggy :(

  3. Paul
    September 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Found in Michael Vick's back yard?

  4. Paul O.
    September 2nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    It looks like a wolf or other canid with a very severe case of mange. The head is rather oddly shaped, though.

    For reference, a wolf with severe mange looks like this: http://www.startribune.com/media/2006/08/09/22/3Hyena0810.standalone.j pg

  5. cuimhne
    September 2nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    That just looks like a dog...?

  6. Hubbard
    September 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    It would look better alive...sniff.

  7. sky
    September 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    So, so, so, so, so, so, very fake. I would love for something like this to be real, but come on, look at that picture. More likely that she is a mediocre to decent clay artist. I have seen more realistic special effects in B-movies.

  8. Anthony
    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    They forgot to mention how the head magically came unattached from the body.

  9. Tinderbox
    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    Wow that's so realistic looking.

  10. Tom
    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    Eh, that's a dog. No need messing around with DNA, you can tell by the teeth and the nose shape alone.

  11. Justin
    September 2nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    that ain't clay, but that sure ain't a chupacabbra

  12. Stacyj
    September 2nd, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    Much as I ADORE the idea of something as silly as a mythical 'goat sucker,' this just makes me sad. Dogs deserve better than that

  13. Ali S.
    September 2nd, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    Looks like a poor pooch.

  14. Kivrin
    September 2nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    Looks like a Xoloitzcuintle. A Mexican hairless breed.

  15. Anita
    September 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    Kivrin good call ... for comparison sake:

    Chupacabra:
    http://users.cihost.com/ata/zoo/chup.jpg

    Xoloitzcuintle:
    http://www.welpen.de/zuechter/meyer-wolfram/004.jpg

  16. William
    September 3rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    lol anita....

  17. Capella
    September 4th, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Maybe its just a head...

    Seriously though, Ive made things out of playdough that looked more realistic.

  18. xopl
    September 4th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    It is definitely a real head. This was on TV and they took tissue samples. The expert (before the tissue sampling) said it was a grey fox with mange. No word on the DNA yet.

  19. Chupa
    September 9th, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    How could that thing even suck blood a mouth of that shape? Even if its a real animal (looks very fake), its probably just some type of pig or canine. Funny though!

  20. TimothyDaniel
    October 9th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    ok yall bitches need to keep yaw comments to yawself. who gives a fuck if yaw think its clay or watever. we dont need those lame ass commments. and i dont no wat it is it mite be a gray fox or it mite be a chupacbra? hell we dont no there are alot of weird things out there and god can create watever he wants. think bout dat!

  21. MrRomiq
    November 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 am

    Or mutant dog but isn't the clasical chupacabra.i wonder if that dog walks on two legs

  22. no one
    November 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    They just anounced that it is a coyote.(In mythical discriptions they say the Chupacabra is a werid coyote.)

  23. Matt
    February 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Hey, maybe its a werewolf?

  24. SlimJim
    February 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    actually, it's a mix of different things. coyote being one, and mexican wolf another, and some other strains of DNA as well.

    http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/020608kvuechupa-eh.970954f8.html

  25. Katie
    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Yep..definitely not an expert, but it looks like a type of canine to me. One messed up kind of greyhound with a disease perhaps?

  26. Blondie
    April 24th, 2008 at 12:36 am

    ok Hi everyone, i work for phylis and who ever said its a fox is crazy do u know how big a foxs is, its smaller then the chupa. The DNA came back from California and they told us that it is part mexican wolf and coyote. They are yet to know y it has no hair and no it does not have mange .They did test to see, all if u want to know more go to http://www.cuerochupacabra.com its the offical web sit also we still have shirts and we are about to get black shirts in to.

    Well have a nice day and if anymore questions go to the websit are just email me bye

  27. Kellie Martinez
    July 7th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    The head looks like some one could have made it, but maybe the photo quality wasn't very good. I saw one of these animals on the way to Mexico outside of Laredo in Oct.2000. It was dead by the road. I wasn't positive what it was & wasn't feeling brave enough to go back to look. It had a color that made me think of a dead body- a light grayish purple & looked hairless from my truck. It was about the size of my malimute/wolf mix. I had never even heard of a chupacabra @ that time. Being young & from the Missouri, Kansas, & Iowa areas, this thing really tripped me out. I was glad to finally have an identity for this thing. I'm even more pleased to have what the mix is. These may not be Chupacabra, but definately real and freaky looking.

  28. Elle.
    July 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    If you look them up in wikipedia.com
    it says tht after dna testng it was coyotes.
    [:

  29. Mia
    August 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    It sure doesn't look like a diseased coyote head to me. but that's just my opinion. it could be anything.

  30. troy
    August 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    ok everybody.... this is a canine of some sort.. not a chupacabra. you can see right above the tounge where the wiskers would be... now i cant explain why its missing all its hair, but honestly it doesnt matter. it looks just like a dog or something... enough said

  31. troy
    August 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    sorry i said that wrong... you can see the holes where the wiskers would be. thats what i meant. and it looks as if it had some sort of skin disease. and its skin is all hard. you can tell by looking at the ears that are prety much still sticking up... i could be wrong but it seems the most logical.

  32. Lisa
    August 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Please everyone keep an open mind. New species are out there that have yet to be discovered and many more distinct every day. Evolve or die. Science girl...

  33. mo
    August 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    its real, it is part of the canine family. I believe its the destruction of habitat and human activity destroying is causeing animals to cross breed that are not meant to, creating "mutants" if you will. or a speacies thats inbred for so long it pops out a mutant, and the mutant breeds creating what you see. and to who ever says its not chupacabra, open your mind. until we have better proof this could vary well be the creature that we seek. and so far it is until we descover another creature we cannot identify.

  34. bustasqwer
    August 13th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Chupacabra video
    http://www.goingon.com/permalink/post/28631

    beware :Chupacabra scary

  35. Mia
    August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    I agree with Mo.

  36. Stewart Masterson
    August 18th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    How do you guys keep getting pictures of my ex?

  37. thomas
    January 16th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    This is obviously a dogs head. Not clay, no photo editing, just a dead mangey dog. Certainly no goatsucker. I'd like to see the rest of the body. I'm sure it has all the normal features of a dog. It looks exactly like "the turner beast" from turner maine, which of course turned out to be, after dna testing, a dog.


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