Chupacabra · Jacksonville, Florida · 2014
FL-2014ID case-82ebf2d538First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Jan 2014to the month
- Where
- Jacksonville, Floridato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and [name] heard a loud, ragged scream while hunting pigs on a dairy farm south of Jacksonville, FL, which locals later referred to as the Chupacabra.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 2014
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-82ebf2d538
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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.
- "Chupacabra" Encounter
Reddit · 2014-03-07
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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