Farmers found the bodies, the panic spread across two continents, and the suspect kept changing its face.
The chupacabra's Spanish name literally means "sucker of" which bearded, bleating farm animal?
Goats Puerto Rican comedian Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the name on his radio show in San Juan as reports of drained livestock piled up.
A Texas woman blamed a strange creature for killing her chickens for years. When its body turned up nearby, what did she do with it?
Stuffed it for her home Phylis Canion had a taxidermist preserve the remains, and DNA tests later showed it was a cross between a coyote and a Mexican wolf.
The very first eyewitness description of the monster matched something she had seen shortly before. Where had she seen it?
In a sci-fi horror movie Investigator Benjamin Radford found that Madelyne Tolentino's famous account closely matched the alien Sil from the film Species, which she believed was really happening in Puerto Rico.
Early sightings described a scaly, spiny creature that stood upright and got around like which bouncy Australian animal?
A kangaroo This reptile-like version with greenish-gray skin and a row of spines down its back came from the first Puerto Rican reports.
When scientists ran DNA tests on hairless "chupacabras" shot across Texas, what did they keep turning out to be?
Coyotes with mange Mange is a skin disease caused by a parasite that leaves animals bald and weak, which may push them to hunt easy farm prey instead of rabbits or deer.
