Chupacabra
XX-NDID case-08fbc879deAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A witness reports that a gentleman saw a strange animal standing up by a tree on the highway, which he initially thought was a black panther but did not climb.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Chupacabra reports with no place (18) - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-08fbc879de
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Eyewitness to two Chupacabra's in Mississippi.
YouTube
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, Benjamin Radford (2011)
Traces the 1995 Puerto Rico origin and the Texas 'chupacabras'.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Hidden Animals: A Field Guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and Other Elusive Creatures, Michael Newton (2009)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.