1995年波多黎各的“吸羊血怪物”，后来有的被DNA验出是长了疥癣的郊狼

“Chupacabra” in Spanish means “goat-sucker”.

The earliest incident occurred in 1995. That March, in a small town in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, eight sheep died overnight. They had no wounds on their bodies, only three small holes, and their blood had been completely drained. Over the following months, local ranchers reported one after another that their sheep, chickens, and rabbits were dying the same way. By August, a woman named Madelyne Tolentino said she had seen the creature with her own eyes: over a meter tall, with very large black eyes, a row of spikes on its back, walking on two legs like an upright kangaroo.

Newspapers published this description, and people all over the island began searching for it. In the following years, people in Mexico, Chile, and Texas in the United States all claimed their livestock had been killed by the “Chupacabra.” Researchers of such legends found that Madelyne Tolentino’s description closely resembled the alien monster in the sci-fi movie Species, which was released that summer, and she herself had seen the film.

Over the years, “corpses” have been produced more than once: a gray, hairless monster with long fangs and sharp claws. In 2004 and 2007, people in Texas produced such “corpses” in succession; one was called the “Elmendorf Monster,” its photo was posted online and quickly spread around the world.

Later, university laboratories took them for DNA testing, and the conclusion was: coyote. It had no hair because it suffered from severe mange, its skin became thick and hard, its fur fell out, and it looked like another species.

However, livestock in the mountains still die just the same, and people still need an explanation. In some rural areas of Latin America, to this day, when ranchers find their sheep dead at night, their first words are still: it was the Chupacabra.

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