Chupacabra Captured In Texas!?

Author: AnniePublished: Aug 25, 2005 at 11:45 pm 66 comments

Reggie Lagow, a farmer in Coleman, Texas decided to set a trap last week, hoping to capture what ever it was chasing and killing his turkeys and chickens... What he found was a creature which is described to be a mix between a rat, a hairless dog, and a kangaroo.... Could this be the mythical Chupacabra?

The Chupacabra, Spanish for "goat sucker", first made the news in 1994, after several attacks were reported in Puerto Rico. The following year, in August of 1995, 150 animals were attacked in Canvanas, Puerto Rico, and according to reports, similar attacks have since been reported from Mexico, Central America, South America, and Chile, to the Southern United States.

Another strange animal thought to be the Chupacabra was the Elmendorf Beast, a canine like creature shot in Elmendorf, Texas, in August 2004. Although an initial DNA test proved inconclusive, a second test was performed and determined that the animal was a coyote with mange. Sightings of several animals matching the Elmendorf Beast have been reported in the area. Many are still skeptical over the test results.

What has people mystified is the manner in which the animals are killed... The victims' blood is drained from their bodies, and in some cases internal organs have been said to have been removed, although nothing more than two puncture wounds in the neck are found. Animals reported to have been killed by the Chupacabra include chickens, rabbits, goats, and horses.

Eye witnesses have described the Chupacabra as being a bipedal, reptilian type creature, standing 3-4 foot tall, with long, muscular hind legs and small bat like arms. It is said to be greenish or grey in color and hairless, with a row of spikes or ridges running from the top of its head down along its spine. It has also been reported to have extremely large, red eyes and most notably, long fangs.

One of the more notorious eye witness sightings occurred in Varginha, Brazil on January 20, 1996. Following a UFO sighting, a creature was witnessed by three girls, Liliane and Valaquira Fatima, and Andrade Xavier, who claimed to have seen a biped creature standing about 1.6m tall, with a large head and very thin body, brown skin, large red eyes and V-shaped feet. The creature's similarities to eye witness descriptions of the Chupacabra have led many to believe that Chupacabras are in fact extraterrestrial beings. The Varginha Incident

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  • 1 - Annie

    Aug 25, 2005 at 11:13 pm

    LOL...Could be!

  • 2 - John Bill

    Aug 26, 2005 at 5:00 am

    Pat Robertson says "El Chupacabra" is a demon sent by Almighty God to kill Mexicans.

  • 3 - Bob A. Booey

    Aug 26, 2005 at 6:58 am

    Annie, this is interesting.

    Keep up the weird X-Files type stories. I find them amusing.

    That is all.

  • 4 - Eric Olsen

    Aug 26, 2005 at 7:02 am

    super job Annie, couldn't be better - thanks!

  • 5 - Annie

    Aug 26, 2005 at 2:02 pm

    The Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. don't know where the animal is...I've updated the article.

  • 6 - Eric Olsen

    Aug 26, 2005 at 2:17 pm

    classic! We all know that the body is REALLY at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, right next to the alien autopsy

  • 7 - Justene

    Aug 26, 2005 at 9:10 pm

    Can you track down Mr. Laglow?

    Jes' askin"!!

  • 8 - Annie

    Aug 26, 2005 at 11:20 pm

    I'll give it a shot!

  • 9 - get real

    Aug 28, 2005 at 12:08 am

    folks. what we have here is simply a fox or coyote with a bad case of mange. the chupacabra along with a long list of the other things everyone WANTS to believe in (including religion lol) is nothing but a legend and will always be that way.

    poor doggie.
    nighty night.

  • 10 - Pat Robertson

    Aug 28, 2005 at 12:18 am

    Hey that's the dog that my wife and I use in our SEX videos

  • 11 - Jessica

    Sep 01, 2005 at 1:24 pm

    Hey ppl, El Chupacabra was made by some stupid scientists El Chupacabra is a rat,dog,rabbit,and i forgot the rest i kno this because i have the docamentry of the Chupacabra and it shows u how El Chupacabra was made but if u ppl want 2 believe wut u believe than fine go ahead and p.s there is 4 more of the chupacabra the mom is dead but there is 4 more of the chupacabra

  • 12 - Jessica

    Sep 01, 2005 at 1:26 pm

    Annie can u track down Richard Sandrak


    jes' askin

  • 13 - Jessica

    Sep 01, 2005 at 1:27 pm

    LOL!!!!!!!!!

  • 14 - Aliciajon

    Sep 01, 2005 at 1:49 pm

    You people are raunchy

  • 15 - R. Michael Lagow

    Sep 01, 2005 at 11:20 pm

    Mr. Reginald Lagow is my father. He is a retired businessman living in Coleman and is a very honest gentleman. I can assure you that the picture he took has NOT been "doctored" as Mr. Harvey pointed out. I don't think anyone really has an answer as to what the animal was. My father simply wanted to stop the killing of his chickens.

  • 16 - chris

    Sep 03, 2005 at 8:04 pm

    I love reading the stupid comments that people leave on articles like this... They are SO FUNNY! You are all stupid. "he's my dad" "made by evil scientists" "religion is a legend" Thanks for reporting Annie!

  • 17 - Anastasia

    Sep 15, 2005 at 12:55 am

    Hi-Hi! I was surprised! You all have never seen this amusing ridiculous animal? When I was young we frightened them near a city dump. We called them tuzicks and they had striped tails and very sharp nail on a back legs.

  • 18 - tyler

    Sep 17, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    I'm from coleman. i like the story.

  • 19 - Victor Plenty

    Sep 17, 2005 at 5:29 pm

    Well, we know who to blame for Hurricane Katrina now. Think about it. Just look at this timeline for definitive proof:

    August 18-August 22

    At some time in this interval, El Chupacabra is killed in a trap set by a Texas farmer.

    August 23
    5:00 PM EDT: National Hurricane Center announcement: "... broad low pressure area over the southeastern Bahamas has become organized enough to be classified as tropical depression twelve."

    August 24
    11:00 AM EDT: National Hurricane Center announcement: "[tropical depression twelve] has become much better organized ... and has strengthened into tropical storm Katrina."

    August 25
    5:00 PM EDT: The National Hurricane Center upgrades tropical storm Katrina to "Hurricane Katrina".

    11:45 PM EDT: News of El Chupacabra's demise "about a week ago" is posted to BLOGCRITICS.

    August 26
    Various BLOGCRITICS commenters openly mock El Chupacabra, Pat Robertson, God, the United States government, and alien spacecrash victims.

    11:30 AM EDT: Katrina is upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane.

    Mockery from BLOGCRITICS commenters continues unchecked.

    August 27
    11:00 PM EDT: The National Hurricane Center issues a warning suggesting that Katrina is moving in a western direction in an area that includes New Orleans.

    August 28
    On BLOGCRITICS, more insults are made against religion, against Pat Robertson, and even a subtle indirect dig against Fox News.

    2:00 AM EDT: Katrina is declared a Category 4 storm.

    8:00 AM EDT: Katrina is declared a Category 5 storm, the highest possible rating.

    August 29
    6:10 AM CDT: Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, makes initial landfall near Buras, La.

    The facts speak for themselves!

  • 20 - bob

    Sep 21, 2005 at 8:06 pm

    the wtory is sotrue

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