Chupacabra sightings map
The chupacabra (Spanish for "goat-sucker") is the name given to a creature blamed for attacks on livestock, and later to various strange-looking animals people have found or photographed. These are reports and stories; we make no claim about what any of them show.
Other names in the sources: Chupacabras, Goatsucker.
Background reading on Wikipedia: Chupacabra.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
By the numbers
57 cases on the map, 18 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.
Best-documented cases
Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.
Chupacabra · Canóvanas, Puerto Rico · 1995
A man saw a skinny creature leap out of a tree and run off while investigating dead goats.
Chupacabra · Puerto Rico · 1995
A lady reported finding multiple dead animals with specific wounds and her cat killed with a single hole to the head.
Chupacabra · Puerto Rico, Misiones · 1996
A guy saw a creature walking bipedal with large fangs, large eyes, and long arms with large claws.
Chupacabra · Brotas, Região Sudeste · 1997
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.
Chupacabra · Caguas, Puerto Rico · 1995
A lady saw the creature scuttling out of her son's window and noted its physical features and slime left behind.
Chupacabra · Canóvanas, Puerto Rico · 1995
People caught glimpses of a creature running around hills and leaping from high places after 150 animals were killed.
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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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.