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4.5.10
A Chupie Meme
In all of this, the facts remained: animals were found dead, their bodies completely drained of blood, two extremely deep puncture wounds found in their necks. Something was causing these animal deaths.
After awhile the stories seemed to become less frequent. Whether this was because of the cyclical nature of news reporting -- chupie's been done already, time to move on -- or the activity itself decreased, I'm not sure. But the stories of the alien themed , blood sucking, spiny backed creature with the red glowing eyes diminished, though there are reports here and there of this type of chupie activity.
In the past two, three years it seems, there's been a surge of new chupacabra reports from within the United States. Only these reports aren't of the earlier variety; these are reports of hairless, furless and mostly canine animals -- not bipedal but quadrupeds -- called "chupacabras" by witnesses and media.
Monster Quest even aired an episode on this new variety of "chupacabra." These creatures are not paranormal or cryptids but real creatures, dogs, foxes, etc. with mange, or, some kind of disease. In late March of this year there was a report of a chupacabra from China:
A weird looking animal for sure; but it is an animal, and sadly, in poor condition. It's fur has fallen out; due to mange or some kind of disease, which in part no doubt is the cause for its behavior:
It's interesting these animals with mange or whatever disease these creatures have, are referred to as chupacabras. Aside from their weird appearance due to the mange or other diseases they have, there isn't anything other worldly about them.
There's a bit of Trickster presence here. The coyote and fox are trickster animals, and these are among the animals labeled "chupacabra." The "original" or "real" chupacabra -- our alien like, bipedal red eyed friend -- is mysterious enough, and remains unexplained. Like UFOs and Bigfoot, the answers to the chupacabra mystery remains elusive. Just as we seem to get close, it moves away from us. Just far enough to miss capture, but close enough to still observe, participate in to a point, and intrigue.
But the trickster isn't finished. Now we have more mystery; why and how known creatures are now being called chupacabras, adding mystery to mystery (mange, other diseases.) Meanwhile, two things are still happening. We still have the "original" chupacabra reports, along with the sightings of furless canine type animals that seem to be increasing. Why is there an increase; is it a signal from the ether that our world is going through, (that we are going through) changes? Global warming, climate changes, tears in the veil . . . things are shifting, these "new chupacabras" are one more example.
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