Comments on: Chupacabras = Giant Bat?

By: harleyb

harleyb — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:29:02 +0000

I believe that the giant bats are not the same as the chupacabra sightings, but they probably both suck blood.

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:06:38 +0000

The comment about domestic cats kinda feeds into the theory that Chupacabras are escaped alien pets, but seriously…

If the biggest known bat can have a wingspan of 6 feet, well, how is that not “Man-sized”, at least in general terms? Sure, the proportions would be off, but the overall size of 6 feet is about the same. Perhaps we have a difference of definition here between the father and the imaginations of those reading his account?

Another thought is that if the Chupacabras is a giant bat, it would have to fold its wings to move effectively on the ground. A brief encounter could easily be too brief to notice this feature, and I believe at least some reports have mentioned flaps of skin between the arms and legs (Folded wings?). Not saying that this is what it must be (I rather like the aquatic hominid theory, myself), but it’s an interesting avenue to pursue.

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:48:31 +0000

cotto1972,

I have posted an excerpt of Scott Corrales’ investigation of the Moca Vampire here on Cryptomundo.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:09:59 +0000

Interestingly the father was afraid that it was something demonic. That’s a very telling description. When a creature is described that way you can bet it gets bigger with the telling and, of course, by implication is evil.

Also it was late evening. In the dark everything unfamiliar seems scarier and bigger. If you reduce the creature to about half the size, you still have an unknown bat (or possibly a species of owl or nightbird?) that is respectable in size but not necessarily out of the realm of possiblility.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:01:43 +0000

From what I have seen of chupacabras reports, there has not been any inclination for the witnesses to think they saw something that could resemble a giant bat. This one report could very well be that, but I don’t think there is any reason at this point to suspect that chupacabras are giant bats. The behavior that is reported from these things such as draining such copious amounts of blood, leaping about rather than flying and such, as well as their reported appearance does not lend itself to this explanation in my opinion. That being said, I do feel that the idea of giant bats out there are not far fetched. It is physically within the realm of possibility. A lot of cryptids may be some sort of bat and I have always thought that the even the ropen may be some sort of large bat. Giant bats may be out there, but from what I have seen, they are a different entity from whatever the chupacabras is.

By: cotto1972

cotto1972 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:24:17 +0000

Hello everybody. I’m from Puerto Rico and I find very interesting that these reports are still around. The creature was named ” The Moca Vampire” o “El Vampiro de Moca” in spanish. Witnesses of the creature described it as a man-bat of some sort. Most of the sighting were during the 70’s ( when I was a small kid) and at that time there were a lot of things going on at PR. UFO sightings, Hominids appearing out of nowhere, Bigfoot type creatures roaming the countryside freely, etc. Even today, sightings still happen from time to time in different parts PR. Not only Moca, but El Yunque rainforest and other areas. There have been sightings of a Bigfoot type creature at the rainforest and cover-up from government agencies, well the usual stuff at this situations.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:55:20 +0000

Sounds like those gravediggers from the hills.

By: joppa

joppa — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:26:54 +0000

This man-bat dude sure gets around. Of course it could be the explanation-de-jour - a BIG OWL.

By: alanborky

alanborky — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:31:17 +0000

wenonahplace, you ask, “what kind of animal leaves their kill to rot having not eaten it all”, and I agree, it’s rather odd, but there is a slight precedence for this sort of behaviour in the likes of the domestic cat, though their behaviour is slightly more explicable in that they’ve evolved from predators but’ve been mutated into something that can dispense with hunting as an absolute necessity if they’re to eat, thanks to human populations providing them with more ready sources of meals.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:05:43 +0000

I don’t really see any resemblance to giant bats in the reports that I have read about chupacabras, but I have no problem at all believing in the existence of giant bats.

If a furry animal the size of a pterosaur could exist - and we know that they did - then a human-sized or near human-sized bat can exist.

After all, no less than Ivan T. Sanderson said, in Investigating the Unexplained, that when he once had an encounter with an animal that locals called the Ahool, he felt that he had “just seen the grandaddy of all bats”.

There’s plenty of fruit in tropical regions, and plenty of huge tall trres and cover to hide giant bats. And who says they all have to eat fruit? There could very well be undiscovered species that eat monkeys and other small animals or even carrion.