#35 Chupacabras Spotted in South Carolina Part I
Her name is Ann. Because of the ridicule she has received she does not want her last name to be known. I can assure you she exists and Ann and I have had many phone conversations. Ann is an OGBYN nurse, grew up in the Mount Pleasant, South Carolina area and has a family with several generations of hunters and even a taxidermist. For years Ann’s family exposed her to every imaginable indigenous animal including various two headed and six legged oddities. Therefore she was comfortable knowing every kind of animal in her environment until the summer of 2006.
Driving to work she said she would see these creatures in yards and fields. She believes she personally witnessed 5 separate chupacabres. Not all at once, but from the different markings she knew she was seeing more than one. “They looked like a grey hound dog,” Ann said, “but it wasn’t a dog. It wasn’t like anything I have ever seen – and it hopped.” That characteristic kept coming up again and again. In all 3 areas – New York, Texas and now South Carolina – animals’ movements were all described the same way. They all hopped, on all fours like a kangaroo, but coming down on all paws unlike a kangaroo. What is it??? Ann admittedly was hooked, she needed to know the truth.
She snapped 50 photos of the sleek grey critter. She contacted various news medias, colleges and universities e-mailing the photos and sharing her story. Few seemed mildly interested at best and skeptical to the point of criticism at the least. One not so gracious response back was and I quote: “Any 10 year old could create this photo in Photoshop.” Ann was not amused and they wanted more proof. Within weeks Ann had her proof.
Next up: Museum Update.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
hey until quite recently i thought the chupacabra was only a myth a mexican folktale of sort but now i truely beleve the chupacabra i real,i beleve that there are other things out there in this universe that we do not know of.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
[...] Keith Curtis – Another Chupacabra sighting, this time by an OBGYN nurse named Ann in South Carolina [...]
May 17th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
That there ain’t no chuper-cabra. That’s a Mexican hairless cat. Reason it was hoppin is that it was lame in one foot. That’s why they hadda put the damn thing down.
You can put the dead cat in yer museum if ye want to but don’t go tellin people it’s a dang dodo er a dino-saur when it’s it’s jist a feline that some damn fool put a round through the head of! Now enough a this crypto-zoo-o nonsense!
July 26th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I think this is most without a doubt worth a definite LOOKING into! There are so many valid reasons for this creature to be real. It may not be exactly how we want it to be true, but none the less this creature will be explained.
Point one is that yes indeed D. Mange can not only infect the poor animal and remove all its hair but it can also disfigure the animal. The one photo I have seen of alleged deceased “Chupacabra”, could suggest mange but not D. Mange—as I have seen in other canines. D. Mange does not affect limb length and usually there is gross thickening of the skin (suggestive as a Shar Pei has wrinkles). A thickening and thereby wrinkling look to the skin in the effected areas..generally the face, neck, ears, legs, hind end and tail. I see no evidence of this in the few deceased photos I have seen.
I will also add that in the case of recovery of any host of skin afflictions..that the coat may return but not as normal coat was.
There are many genetic disorders or rather mutations that can occur that will account for the shortened front limbs (look up twisty cats) that can occur naturally or environmentally.
I will also add that there are diseases related with genetic disorders..
That being said….I look at these Chupacabras and believe that there is a breeding gene pool problem, however in light of the wide range of the sightings Now I doubt that.
As far as spines…well that could simply be a ruff of fur still left on the poor canine along the spine and in the heat of sighting could be misconstrued.
There are so many valid reasons these creatures exist…
I always keep an open mind on everything I run across. But I am a wee bit skeptical about the UFO and experimental theories.
I look fwd to following this.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
to HUMBOLDSQUID……
there is a Mexican Hairless dog….but it didn’t neccessarily orginate in MX. There are also hairless cats that also do not come from MX they are a genetic mutation or rather variation both dogs and cats. Much like the short limbs, bob tails and other lists of mutations in coat, color, comformation and etc. etc. etc.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:55 am
I caught an animal with characteristics similar to what some have described in the chupacabra. It was like no animal I have ever seen. At first I thought it might be a very strange looking possum. Then it sat up more like a jack rabbit or a small kangaroo. The front legs were shorter than the back and it kind of hopped around more like a rabbit than a cat. It was hairless except for some sparse fur growing down his back. It had a long tail with just a little of that sparse fur. The animal had black skin with some orange markings on the face and chest. I believe I found a genetically mutated cat. I believe it was born in a litter of otherwise normal kittens. It was ostracized by the other cats. I saw it every now and then from the time it was very young and caught it in a trap when it was four or five months old. I planned to tame the animal. I locked myself in a small room with the creature, determined to stay until he got used to me. I slept on a wooden pallet while he hid under it. He would growl but I figured we were so physically close that he would eventually accept my presence. Finally he came out and I gradually moved closer until he let me touch him! Very gradually, I was actually able to pet him and he began to purr real loud. I figured he was really enjoying the contact since he had been denied the communal grooming from the rest of the litter. His skin was dirty, unlike cats who groom themselves. My fingers caked with dirt from petting him. I had stretched out in an uncomfortable position to reach him so I tried to slowly shift around and switch hands. When he saw my other hand come towards him he bit the hell out me! I had to leave the room to go clean my wound and when I got back he had somehow escaped. He was spotted a few more times around the neighborhood. I left food for him but could not get him to get in the trap again. There were several days that remained below freezing temperature and I never saw him after that. I assumed he couldn’t survive the cold being hairless and all.
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Given the similarities of appearance and observed mode of locomotion between these creatures and kangaroos and wallabies, the obvious question, it seems to me, is are they marsupials (i.e., do their females carry their young around in pouches)? Looking hard at the second photo, it could indeed seem to show a possible pouch with a baby in it on the animal’s abdomen. At that picture resolution, I wouldn’t personally care to bet on it, however.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:50 pm
To ‘EVERYMAN’ #7
It is interesting to me that you wondered whether the creatures might be marsupials since my first impression of the one I captured (see#6)was that it looked like a very strange oppossum. There were other people who saw this creature and thought a cat had actually bred with a possum! I don’t believe that is possible and I do believe this creature was a product of two cats. Neither do I believe that it was a kangaroo or wallabie, mainly because it was located on the Texas coast, Crystal Beach. This one looked very much like the photo of the one from South Carolina. They are long and thin which accentuates a pot belly, but I don’t believe it was a pouch. They do look similar to the cat breeds Sphinx and Rex. The Rex is named from its resemblance to a Rex rabbit. ‘Our’ chupacabras also have rabbit like characteristics (big ears, hopping, sitting up on haunches) I don’t think they come from a direct line of these cat breeds but I do think they might be a new mutation with similar characteristics.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
[...] Alleged photographic evidence of a Chupacabra [...]
September 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
The Chupacabra – appearing in dog beds across the nation!
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images14/Xoloitzcuintletullyandike.JPG
September 19th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Hahaha! I’ve seen photos that look just like that – they are standard Xolos looking at the camera at a certain angle so their mouth looks really small.
October 13th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
your kidding right? that second picture looks like you photo shoped a picture of a hyaena and the first looks like you have a really over active imagination, I’m sorry, but, chupacabras just do not exist. They are rabid dogs with mange and/or defects. I’m sorry to offend those who believe in them but unless you actually can prove, with DNA testing, that there really is a chupacabra then I don’t believe you.
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I have little doubt that these stories and photographs of this strange and newly discovered animal are true. From my own studies of ancient and modern stories/legends of animals that allegedly did not and do not exist within recorded history, I have become convinced that the evidence is on the side of those who claim to have encountered such animals. It is my personal belief that God is allowing such creatures to be seen and in time their existence proven to prove to those who deny the truth of the bible, that evolutionary theories are wrong, along with the time table that they require for their theories. I fully expect more such exotic and also supposedly extinct creatures to be “discovered.”
Dr. James Brooks