Goatsucker(el chupacabras)

Is it a myth? Is it real? Is it a hoax?

Whatever else it may or may not be, the goatsucker is news! .

Websters Dictionary defines goatsucker as "One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, especially. The European species (Caprimulgus Europaeus); so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk . "

So, there actually is a goatsucker, after all. At least the name itself did not come out of someone's hyperactive imagination!

Puerto Rico's goatsucker, el chupacabras, has made front page news in local newspapers and has been the subject of numerous televised accounts of farm and domestic animals, found dead under mysterious circumstances. Chickens and other fowl, dogs, goats, pigs, all dead. Many of these animals had had their blood sucked by their victimizer.

In 1995, reports of unexplained deaths of animals were popping up all around the island of Puerto Rico. In Canóvanas, a small town in northeastern Puerto Rico, a series of such cases generated anxiety in the population. Whether or not you accepted the chupacabra theory, the fact remained that something or someone was out killing animals and sucking their blood. Canóvanas mayor Chemo Soto made news headlines by organizing groups to hunt for the goatsucker. While he did not succeed in finding the creature, he may have chased it away from his hometown.

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