Chupacabra · 2016
XX-2016ID case-61189a7a28First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- 2016to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing an uncomfortable-looking animal with long back legs and visible ribs running along a fence and jumping over a 6ft tall fence near their school in Florida.
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
- 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-61189a7a28
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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.
- a childhood anecdote.
Reddit · 2020-03-17
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
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