Chupacabra · Brotas, Região Sudeste · 1997
BRA-1997ID case-db12c6dd3fAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- When
- Feb 8, 1997to the day
- Where
- Brotas, Região Sudesteto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that while investigating a sheep mutilation in Brazil, an officer saw a tall dark humanoid shape in a sugar cane field and found strange greenish liquid.
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Details
- Creature
- Chupacabra
- Where
- Brotas, São Paulo, Região Sudeste, Brasil
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 8, 1997
- 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-db12c6dd3f
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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.
- It's either predator or chupacabra...
Reddit · 2014-11-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Some type of chupacabra encounter.
Reddit · 2015-01-04
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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