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Chupacabra · Puerto Rico · 1995

UNI-1995ID case-ec81830e6eAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
Creature
Chupacabra
When
Dec 26, 1995to the day
Where
Puerto Ricoto approximate level
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

A lady reported finding multiple dead animals with specific wounds and her cat killed with a single hole to the head.

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Details

Creature
Chupacabra
Where
Puerto Rico, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words
When
Dec 26, 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 21, 2026
Case id
case-ec81830e6e

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Source trail (2)

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

  1. Odd case of the Chupacabra.
    Reddit · 2024-02-17
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. The weird case of the El Chupacabra
    Reddit · 2024-03-18

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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

Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.

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