El Chupacabra
Height: 2-3 Feet
Length: 2-3 1/2 Feet
Indentifying Features: The Body of a very large dog with a hairless face of a baboon, very broad shoulders, & no tail.

The Chupacabra which translates from spanish to mean "Goat Sucker", was mainly know for being seen in Cerntral America, South America, and Puerto Rico, but has recently been being sighted in the southern U.S. . The animal shown in the image above is believed to be Chupacabra killed in Dequincy, Louisiana. Barbara Mullins took the photo and sent it in to the local news paper & the aricle they wrote on it reads as follows:

THE DEQUINCY NEWS vol 72, No.24 Sept. 25, 1996, Dequincy La. 70633

WHAT IS IT? Mrs. Barbara Mullins took this photograph of an animal that apparently had been killed by a car on the Pearce road east of Temple-inland. It was the size of a very large dog and was covered with thick wooly hair. It had the general appearance of a dog, except for the face, which looked somewhat like that of a baboon. Was it a dog or some unidentified animal?

In my opinion, (mainly because of the face) this animal looks nothing like a dog, after doing some research on the Chupacabra I learned that the sightings first started in the 1960s, when a farmer in south america discovered some of his goats, sheeps, and other farm animals had apperantly died from puncture holes in their necks where their blood had been drained completely. That night he heard something moving around outside so he looked out his window to investigate, what he seen was a creature with a large body, almost like that of a dog, small legs, no paws; feet instead, very thick dark colored hair, and the face of a baboon. From then on the sightings just increased, and started to spread through out North and South America. I find the older sightings to be much more credible (1960s-1980s), the newer sightings have changed him into some kind of furry lizard with small wings, some people think the Chupacabra is some kind of alien, or even a government experiment! In my opinion it's kind of hard to believe that the Chupacabra is some kind of government experiment, because even in the year 2002, I don't personally think the U.S. government has the technology to create a new species entirely. I think that the animal killed in Dequincy might be a Chupacabra after hearing some of the old descriptions of it.