The Chupacabra

Everything started in 1995 in Puerto Rico. A new beast arrived from nowhere on that island and started to suck the blood of all farm animals leaving their bloodless corpses only. The beast looked like a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines running from the neck to the base of the tail (figure 1). It was a scary beast that the locals called the Chupacabra.

Figure 1. The Chupacabra. ¹

The beast or beasts (because it seemed it had siblings) started to teleport and move across Latin America and the US, reaching one terrible night in 1996, the Elias Village in San Vicente, El Salvador. On that night, a goat around 6 months old appeared dead with serious wounds caused by unknown fangs around its neck and forelimbs. What’s more, its third leg was broken savagely leaving it without bloodlessness.

The goat was discovered by its owner (the Granados Family) after he heard uncommon noises that sound from a faraway land. Also, he noticed that the rest of his goats were running crazily as if they had seen something from another galaxy.

Mr. Granados called his sons, and they came with a couple of machetes and guns. They also asked the women in the house to add some palms to protect their houses from any being from the beyond.

Everyone started to walk around the cornfield until they reached a very noisy place, and they started to smash with some with everything they had. One of them even took his pistol and shot it mercilessly, but after everything, there was nothing! They left the cursed place and reported the event to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock the next morning.

Over the following years, more and more goats and cattle started to die sporadically across El Salvador, until 2010 when in a stable in the village of El Cafetal, canton Las Tablas, Sonsonate, four calves appeared torn from their bodies.

Nowadays, some people believe the Chucapabra has vanished for good, but who knows, maybe it’s just waiting for its return!

Inspired by El Diario de Hoy’s version.

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Location: San Vicente, El Salvador

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