Chupacabra · Joshua Tree, California · 2005
CA-2005ID case-184af1fc39First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 31, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Oct 22, 2005to the day
- Where
- Joshua Tree, Californiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports encountering a 3-ft tall, 40-50 lb nocturnal predator with forward-facing eyes that made a silent 9-ft leap onto a stop sign and survived shotgun fire.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Joshua Tree, San Bernardino County, California, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 22, 2005
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 31, 2026
- Case id
- case-184af1fc39
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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.
- DOGMAN & CRAWLER ATTACKS & ENCOUNTERS, A HIKER TRAUMATIZED SO BAD THAT THERAPY FROM PTSD
YouTube · 2026-05-19
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.