You're a Puerto Rican farmer and you go out to check your livestock.

And there you find one of your goats' dead, and not simply dead, but dead and in a mysterious

condition.

It has neatly incised puncture marks on its neck, and its carcass appears to have been

entirely drained of blood.

What do you think happened?

In Puerto Rico, they determined it was the Chupacabra.

It's coming up next on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com on the trail of the Chupacabra.

Today we're going to track down an infamous monster, the Chupacabra.

It is said to take any of several forms, but always that it sucks the blood of its prey,

often livestock, leaving a drained carcass with surgically neat puncture holes.

It's been reported all around the world, and in various centuries, and so taken in

the aggregate, one might reasonably assume that there is sufficient evidence to declare

it a real creature.

But whether that creature is physical, or a phantom, or an alien, or purely folkloric,

is a more complicated declaration to make.

Today, we're going to gather all that evidence, shine the light of science and reason on it,

and see what we can say for certain, if anything, about this legendary beast.

The Chupacabra earned its name only as recently as 1995, following widely publicized news reports

of cattle mutilations in two small Puerto Rican towns, or Rekovis and Morovis.

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