What is that in your Freezer?

From The Cleveland Leader
By Julie (?)



Did Phylis Canion and her Texas neighbors find an ugly, mangled coyote, or is what they found really the legendary creature known as the chupacabra? Canion, who lived in Africa for four years and has hunted all her life, believes that the roadkill she scooped up last month isn't just another coyote. She believes that what she has stored away in her freezer for the past month is the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

Three 40-pound bodies of the animal were found over four days in July in Cuero, Texas, about 80 miles southeast of San Antonio.

Canion saved the head of the creature she found so that she will be able to get some DNA testing done to determine its ancestry. The animal features big ears, large fanged teeth, and graysih-blue, mostly hairless skin.

Canion and many of her neighbors believe that the chupacabra could be responsible for the death of as many as 26 of her chickens over the past few years. She said the reason she believed that this might not just be a coyote is the fact that the chickens weren't carried off or eaten, but instead had all of the blood sucked from their bodies.

"Chupacabra" means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and the creature has been one of myth and intrigue in the Latin American countries for years now. It is believed to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.