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Chupacabra · Barrio Pueblo, Puerto Rico · 1995

UNI-1995ID case-1d20a85cb1Added to map Oct 22, 2026
Creature
Chupacabra
When
Oct 20, 1995to the day
Where
Barrio Pueblo, Puerto Ricoto town level
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

Witnesses report seeing fourteen Chupacabra-type creatures of different sizes walking single file up a hill.

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Details

Creature
Chupacabra
Where
Barrio Pueblo, Guánica, Puerto Rico, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When
Oct 20, 1995
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 22, 2026
Case id
case-1d20a85cb1

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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

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