![]() ![]() For 10 years, legends of the blood-sucking monster have been a staple of rural life throughout the central part of the state, fueled by a succession of alleged carcasses, sightings and tall tales. The chupacabra is among the most popular of the mystery beasts, an integral part of Texas folklore and a semi-regular guest star in sensational cable documentaries and credulous local news reports alike. “Everybody wants to know more about the chupacabra.”Ĭuero rancher Phylis Canion insists this stuffed specimen - which experts say is a coyote - is an authentic Texas chupacabra. We’ve done about 13 shows overseas, we’ve done about 60 documentaries in the States,” Canion said. “We’ve done documentaries on National Geographic, History Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet. That brush with celebrity changed her life. She sped back in her car, and there it was thin, hairless, bizarre.Ĭanion loaded it into her tractor and took it back to the ranch to photograph it. As Canion stood puzzling over the scrawny body, they got another call, about another strange carcass, this one closer to Canion’s ranch. In mid-July, a neighboring rancher called to say that one of the creatures had been hit by a car near his property. When that failed, she asked her neighbors to let her know if they saw, captured or killed it. ![]() Canion set up cameras hoping to catch it in the act. Over the next few days, the mystery predator struck again, leaving what appeared to be exsanguinated chickens across the ranch. Soon after, she and her husband found one of their chickens with its throat torn open, apparently drained of blood. She’d seen some odd things there but nothing like this: a hairless canine figure with blue-gray flesh and bony limbs. It was June 2007, and Canion, a naturopathic doctor and hunter, had just returned to Cuero from Africa. The first time Phylis Canion saw the chupacabra, it was slipping through the pastures on her South Central Texas ranch in broad daylight. Texas chupacabras have a way of leaving behind bodies - or perhaps, bodies in Texas have a way of becoming chupacabras. ![]()
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