FOUND: El Chupacabra. But It's Probably Just an Ugly Raccoon
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Update: The (not so mythical) creature was euthanized.
“Bubba that looks like a baby chupacabra.”
That’s what Jackie Stock, resident of small-town Ratcliffe, TX, told her husband earlier this week. According a report by local Texas station KAVU-TV, Stock and her husband claim say they have finally discovered the legendary chupacabra* and that it is, in fact, alive in a cage in their back yard.
Unfortunately for the couple who now has this thing caged up in their backyard, there’s pretty much no way it’s the real deal.
Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and author of six books including Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, concludes that the Ratcliffe Chupa is just a weird looking dog or raccoon with a skin disease.
“I’ve seen the recent photos and it looks typical,” Radford told Fusion. “The key to a chupacabra, in theory, is that it sucks blood. There’s no reason to believe that there’s anything vampiric about this animal.”