Chupacabra · Orocovis, Puerto Rico · 1995
UNI-1995ID case-9f333060d6Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Mar 28, 1995to the day
- Where
- Orocovis, Puerto Ricoto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A man saw a four-foot creature with smooth gray skin and no hair climb up halfway a trunk of a tree before it ran into the brush.
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Orocovis, Puerto Rico, 00720, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 28, 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-9f333060d6
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Five pretty decent Chupacabra reports
Reddit · 2016-06-09
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.
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