Daniel Milcheck
Starting in the 1970’s, a Puerto Rican legend started, El Vampiro de Moca. El Vampiro de Moca is a livestock-killing vampire in the small town of Moca. This Puerto Rican legend has become the basis of a more recent legend, El Chupacabra. The legend of El Chupacabra began when goats and chickens were being found dead. Okay, so what? Many of these animals die every day for human consumption. So what’s the big deal? Well the main factor is that these animals that have been found drained of blood with small puncture wounds on their necks but no other physical harm.
The term El Chupacabra literally means “Goat Sucker” in the Spanish language. The “Goat Sucker” originated from the little town of Moca, in Puerto Rico and spread quickly to Mexico, Chile, Brazil and later into the United States: Texas, Florida, Maine, Michigan, and Oregon. Also, the news of this livestock vampire spread worldwide via the internet and into our imaginations.
El Chupacabra is a very elusive creature. There have been so called “sightings” of this beast but there are no records of an El Chupacabra. The legend has many different descriptions. Some say it appears similar to an archetypical alien with large eyes, fangs, a forked tongue and a row of sharp quills that run down its spine. Others say that it looks more like a giant, vicious kangaroo or disfigured coyote. But the most common description is a gray, lizard-like creature that stands three to four feet tall and walks upright on its very muscular hind legs.
Great, we might be sharing the world with a vampire lizard, kangaroo, coyote, or alien that sucks the blood of goats and chickens. Even though there has not been a report of this creature sucking the blood of humans, but how do we know for certain?
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