The Creepy Truth About The Chupacabra

In 2007, a Texas nutritionist named Phylis Canion was struck by a chupacabra problem, according to the Huffington Post. Despite her best efforts, Canion's ranch kept getting raided by an unseen predator that killed 28 of her chickens, ripping out their throats. Sound familiar? One day, Canion stumbled upon a profoundly weird, dog-like corpse on the side of the road. The dog's body had tough, hairless blue skin, steel blue eyes, only three toes on each foot, a pronounced overbite, and strange pouches on both sides of its tail. The Texas rancher was pretty sure she'd just discovered a chupacabra, so she brought this "Texas Blue Dog" home, had it stuffed by a taxidermist, and now keeps it in her living room.

She also tested it, and according to Canion, the Blue Dog came out as a hybrid of a coyote and a Mexican wolf. An array of similar-looking Texas Blue Dogs popped up around the state. A local Houston news station asked animal control expert Claude Griffin about the matter, and Griffin said people in the area were specifically inbreeding different types of canine for the sheer purpose of letting them go, catching them, and claiming they'd found a chupacabra. So yes, the Blue Dogs were real, and yes, they were canines. But here's the interesting thing — just because these animals were canines, it doesn't mean they weren't also "chupacabras," because...

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