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- PUERTO RICO "GORILLA" GRABS MAN 01/01/96
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- Was It El Chupacabras, the "Goat Sucker"?
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- An EARTH MYSTERIES NEWS Report
- Copyright 1995 by Linda Moulton Howe
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- On Thursday, December 21 near Guanica on the southwestern coast, 44-year-old
- mechanic Osvaldo Claudio Rosado was up at 3 AM washing a car. He walked toward
- the patio of his home to shut off the water faucet where the hose was
- connected. Suddenly without warning, he was grabbed from behind. When Rosado
- tried to fight off the intruder, he was shocked to see a black-haired "gorilla"
- about five feet tall. The animal ran off and Rosado drove to the Tito Mattei
- Hospital in Yauco to have doctors examine and treat cuts in his abdomen,
- possibly torn by fingernails or claws on the animal's hands.
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- Local media wondered if this was the now-famous Chupacabras "goat sucker" which
- has been haunting domestic animals all over the island. In the same area two
- weeks before, police investigated the unusual bloodless deaths of chickens and
- cows in Ensenada and Barrio Fuig.
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- The mystery of the Chupacabras "goat sucker" began last March 11, 1995 when
- eight sheep were found dead on a farm owned by Enrique Barreto Hernandez in
- Orocovis at the center of the island. The animals had three strange marks or
- puncture holes in the chest and were described as "completely drained of
- blood."
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- Even then, residents speculated that perhaps a large, agile primate was on the
- loose from some secret El Junque military laboratory. But others who had seen
- either the creature or moving lights in the sky speculated that the
- chupacabras might be from outer space. That conclusion was partly provoked by
- the very large, slanted, glowing red eyes that eyewitnesses have described on
- the creature. Those red eyes have been sketched on a face that is flat,
- perhaps simian-like, but on a body some say is covered with spotted skin "like
- a frog's" or has "spikes on its head and back" with "chicken legs" that have a
- 3-toed foot about six inches long. Such tracks have been found and photo-
- graphed in dirt near dead animals. This creature has been seen to hop, or fly,
- from the ground to a tree or from trees to the ground. But in 1995, no one
- reported seeing a chupacabras and a UFO together in the same place at the same
- time.
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- As 1995 closes, the Chupacabras victims have included hundreds of cows, horses,
- sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, cats and dogs, all with odd, bloodless
- puncture marks in the neck, chest or abdomen found from one end of the island
- to the other. On December 14th, El Vocero [news] reported that in Naguabo on
- the east coast, several caged rabbits were "found dead with holes in the neck
- area, without a drop of blood." Other rabbits had disappeared. Near the
- rabbit cage was a track with a three-toed claw.
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- Since last spring, the attacks have spread from the center of Puerto Rico to
- the northeast where the Canovanas mayor organized an unsuccessful search party
- for the Chupacabras, then on to Arecibo and the southwestern coast. Attacks
- have sometimes occurred at both ends of the island within days, such as the
- Naguabo rabbits and the puzzling "primate" encounter by Osvaldo Rosadonear
- Guanica. It would take three hours by car to drive from Naguabo to Guanica.
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- Among the numerous unanswered questions are these: How many chupacabras are
- there? Is it possible that the creatures' disappearances and travels are made
- easier by underground caverns and passageways long-eroded in the island's
- limestone? And was Osvaldo Rosado's encounter the first indication that El
- Chupacabras is beginning to attack humans?
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- Excerpt from: ISCNI*Flash -- Vol. 1, No. 20, January 1, 1996
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