Chupacabra · Brasil
BRA-NDID case-1433d5daafFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Brasilfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a creature with a hyena-like body, spikes, and a triangular head during a missions trip in Brazil when they were 16.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Brasil
mapped to country level · from the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them. - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-1433d5daaf
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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.
- Is this all just dogs here?
Reddit · 2021-12-05
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.