9/11 Creature
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 11th, 2006
On the night of September 11, 1997, Ines Valdivieza and her 6-year-old daughter observed a small creature, brown in color with large red eyes, run from a pig-pen area in Colonia Revolucion Mexicana, Mexico.
It made high bounding strides and disappeared into the dark. Five hogs were later found dead, completely drained of blood with strange scars on their necks.
Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database, 1997, citing Pascual Rolando Pacheco Herrera.
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That’s definitely a new version. I am still curious about the strange scars. Are they bite marks like legendary vampires, slits like the vampire bat? If bitten, 1 or 2 holes? Do we know if there are any legends from the Mayans or Aztec about something like this?
Sounds like a Chupacabra to me. Maybe with some adaptions.
The illustration is a generic one of Chupacabras. I like it as it shows a supposedly human-startled creature with animals it possibly has killed (a moment that is often not illustrated in the Chupacabra sketches). It is merely added to enhance an otherwise short sighting report. The two are not necessarily related.
A possible EL CHUPACABRAS encounter, once they drain their prey they leave at high speed they are clever and smart they are very elusive. I have read much material on these creaturs.
just a quick one…is it proper to call it El Chupacabras? does that imply more the one creature? that would Los chupacabras…and isnt it a femine form? so how about La Chupacabra? just curious.
Yep a chupa encounter.
Yes, it is proper to call it El Chupacabras. There was an article on this blog awhile back explaining why. Because it means “to suck” as a verb and in Spanish that would be Chupa cabraS. So it is literally the one that sucks goats. Chupa= goat, cabras=to suck in the correct conjugation for a third person. I’m pretty sure that was the explanation given, if my memory serves.
Mystery_man, you have the right idea and the correct meaning, but you are murdering my language…
Chupacabras, Chupa means to suck and Cabras are goats. Sometimes I have seen it addressed as El Chupacabra (meaning only one of the “Chupas”) but the correct name would be Chupacabras, because upon discovery it was not one goat, but many, that had been mutilated.
But hey! Kudos for giving it the good ol’ try…
I wrote an entire blog about this. Chupacabras, not Chupacabra. See “Chupawhat?”.
wasnt it a small creature? , the sketch at the top is very good but out of perportion