Comments on: Breaking: Campeche Chupacabras

By: ninetailedfox

ninetailedfox — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:12:54 +0000

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.

By: cryp-23

cryp-23 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:21:44 +0000

and i think that if the animal the chickens owner saw “moving away” was flying they would have probably told us that.

By: cryp-23

cryp-23 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:43:47 +0000

I’m just not realy on the bat band wagon I’m still thinking about some other culprit…

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:48:16 +0000

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

By: graybear

graybear — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:51:18 +0000

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.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:34:25 +0000

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…

By: cryp-23

cryp-23 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:36:43 +0000

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

By: Cryptid Hunt21

Cryptid Hunt21 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:34:18 +0000

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.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:19:25 +0000

Mmm.. how about that? And me thinking the only blood-suckers left in my country were our politicians!

By: Colpittsdragon

Colpittsdragon — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:01:40 +0000

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.