Sightings Of The Chupacabra

The chupacabra is a mysterious creature that has a lot of in-formation on it that may or may not be true, whether it is un-known. The chupacabra has quite a few different theories of where it is and what it is. The true origin of the creature is a mystery to people, but there are a couple theories for the origin of the creature. Many different sightings of the crea-ture have been reported, some more credible than others. The investigation of the chupacabra is still going on, but there are some pieces of evidence and certain ways of checking the reports of the creature that is helping it. Some people inaccurately believe that sightings of the chupacabra date back to the 1970s, but the chupacabras first sighting report did not come until 1995
While having lunch with his friends the goat farmer, Javier Prohens, was alerted of the bodies on the outskirts of the small town of Monte Patria in the east central Chilean providence of Limari. The carcasses were found among several hay bales in a cellar and were said to be par-tially mummified, the strange creatures were first thought to be bats but then they came to the realization that the head was too big to be bats and one of them remarked that the re-mains looked like chupacabras. A little while later they had a few scientists do some medical and DNA tests on the supposed chupacabras and then they were revealed to be ordinary animals (“Farmer”
In the case of the Chilean farmer where DNA tests were done and it was discovered that it was not a chupacabra but a regular coyote. Amongst all the news stories of chupacabras there have been no analysis by zoologists or scientists, even though the flesh of the car-casses should be preserved enough for a definitive DNA sample for testing, should Prohens or anyone else wish to have one done. Usually the public curiosity prompts a test to be done, but they do not do it because the results usually come back as a known animal, just like all the previous chupacabra carcass-es (“Farmer” 13). The chupacabra is a topic that is still being debated to-day for whether or not it exists, there have been many reports of the creature, but none of them are proven. All the infor-mation on the chupacabra is either a theory or from someone who says that they saw the creature. Whether it exists or not is unknown, but not for a single person to decide. Works cited
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