The Caspian Hare Posted July 25, 2017 #1 Share Posted July 25, 2017 (edited) Quote In the rocky Box Springs Mountain territory, residents say they believe that the strange wild animal they’ve encountered since the beginning of the year is the legendary chupacabra. “I thought, ‘That is the strangest looking animal I’ve ever seen,’” said M.J. Bunt, an early childhood educator. She saw the creature for the first time a year ago, eating fruit from a tree in a front yard of a nearby home. “The ears of a deer, long snout, no hair, tail like a rat, long hindquarters,” she said. “I thought it might be a sick coyote, a sick wolf. But it had too many different characteristics from any of them.” http://www.presstelegram.com/oddities/20170721/residents-say-chupacabra-stalks-mountains-of-riverside-county She drew it on a chalkboard. Not paper, not computer, a chalkboard. Edited July 25, 2017 by The Russian Hare Capitalize 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted July 25, 2017 #2 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Actually, that woman's chalk drawing looks kind of like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodf3llow Posted July 25, 2017 #3 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Hairless Opossum? Fits all the features/love fruit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer77 Posted July 25, 2017 #4 Share Posted July 25, 2017 4 hours ago, Goodf3llow said: Hairless Opossum? Fits all the features/love fruit.. No opossums in the area but raccoons and coyotes abound as well as coatimundi which if infected with mange would fit the description as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodf3llow Posted July 26, 2017 #5 Share Posted July 26, 2017 24 minutes ago, Farmer77 said: No opossums in the area but raccoons and coyotes abound as well as coatimundi which if infected with mange would fit the description as well. Those critters are everywhere, Riverside county definitely has opossums. Could be Coyote though too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer77 Posted July 26, 2017 #6 Share Posted July 26, 2017 48 minutes ago, Goodf3llow said: Those critters are everywhere, Riverside county definitely has opossums. Could be Coyote though too.. You're right, I stand corrected. I live near there and have never heard of one in my area so assumed they didnt either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted July 29, 2017 #7 Share Posted July 29, 2017 I completely don't understand that canine-form chupacabra stuff, it's doesn't impress a bit. I always thought chupacabra should be bipedal, with those spikes along the back, as was initially described by the Mexicans. That would be cool and interesting. But some fat mangy coyotes are just boring. I still hope it's all the case of misidentification, and the real humanoid chupacabras from the jungle are out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted July 29, 2017 #8 Share Posted July 29, 2017 26 minutes ago, Chaldon said: I completely don't understand that canine-form chupacabra stuff, it's doesn't impress a bit. I always thought chupacabra should be bipedal, with those spikes along the back, as was initially described by the Mexicans. That would be cool and interesting. But some fat mangy coyotes are just boring. I still hope it's all the case of misidentification, and the real humanoid chupacabras from the jungle are out there. Here's the original chupacabra, or goatsucker. It was the nightjar, not a spikey biped, that only turned up in the 90's. Here's the true story http://www.jasoncolavito.com/prehistory-of-chupacabra.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaldon Posted July 29, 2017 #9 Share Posted July 29, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, oldrover said: Here's the original chupacabra, or goatsucker. It was the nightjar, not a spikey biped, that only turned up in the 90's. Here's the true story http://www.jasoncolavito.com/prehistory-of-chupacabra.html Well, it's a well-known old wives' tale here in Russia. Nightjar is called "козодой" in Russian, which literally means "goat milker", and was blamed on depriving cows of their milk since the time immemorial. But frankly I hardly can bind together the cases of cows lacking milk and animals killed with little blood left in them. Even if the latter was done by the mangy coyotes I just can't understand how. And by the way, there were some similar cases reported in Ukraine and Western Russia (don't know about Siberia). I don't know, may be it's all just a mass-hysteria, because reportedly there were a lot of dog-like tracks around the barns with the animals slaughtered, yet the animals were really strangely mutilated, I've seen a lot of pictures and videos of those, and it's a really strange to have the feral dogs to be blame for. Edited July 29, 2017 by Chaldon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jettmom Posted July 29, 2017 #10 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Chupacabra..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted July 29, 2017 #11 Share Posted July 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Chaldon said: Well, it's a well-known old wives' tale here in Russia. Nightjar is called "козодой" in Russian, which literally means "goat milker", and was blamed on depriving cows of their milk since the time immemorial. But frankly I hardly can bind together the cases of cows lacking milk and animals killed with little blood left in them. Even if the latter was done by the mangy coyotes I just can't understand how. And by the way, there were some similar cases reported in Ukraine and Western Russia (don't know about Siberia). I don't know, may be it's all just a mass-hysteria, because reportedly there were a lot of dog-like tracks around the barns with the animals slaughtered, yet the animals were really strangely mutilated, I've seen a lot of pictures and videos of those, and it's a really strange to have the feral dogs to be blame for. Very interesting to learn that this tale is also found in Russia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyna Posted August 1, 2017 #12 Share Posted August 1, 2017 look up Mexican hairless dogs there is one just like they describe. Clearly running wild and they are crossing the border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted August 1, 2017 #13 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Shorter legs at the front bet he can run uphill fast ...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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