Chupacabra · Capivari, Região Sudeste · 1995
BRA-1995ID case-70ce74d041Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Jan 1995to the month
- Where
- Capivari, Região Sudesteto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report a hairy creature circling their shack, attempting to enter, and later fleeing after men discovered a mutilated carcass nearby.
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Capivari, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brasil
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 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 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-70ce74d041
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Chupacabras
Reddit · 2014-06-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Chupacabra Encounter
Reddit · 2014-06-04
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.
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