If you've seen the movie, "Mexican Werewolf" you are familiar with the strange creatures which have been terrorizing latino countries for decades. These creatures called Chupacabras or "Chupas" for short, are 3-4 feet tall reptilians with leathery green or greyish skin and with sharp spines or quills growing out of their backs. Witnesses claim Chupas can hop like a kangaroo, and have irridescent red eyes which glow at night. They usually do not have a tail, but do have a foked reptilian tongue similar to a snake.

Chupas were first spotted in Puerto Rico, and were said to have been responsible for the deaths of dozens of goats and sheep. The animals were found with all their blood drained and with round teethlike or fang marks near the heart area. One attack in Caguas, P.R. was especially scary as the creature entered a little girl's bedroom and assaulted her favorite teddy bear. Fortunately, the child was not home that night.

A large Chupa was spotted near Perth, Australia close to the Yanchep National Park, and residents of Hesperia, California have reported an increase in Chupacabra activity in their area. Mexican farmers have even formed armed Chupacabra vigilante groups to patrol their farms and watch over livestock late at night. One such group surprised a Chupa in the process of sucking a goat's blood and attacked it with machetes and shotguns, but the wounded Chupa escaped leaving behind four dead goats and 17 dead chickens.

Chupacabras are real. When I was living in a small village in Mexico back in the 70's when they attacked goats and sheep at night all the time. Farmers were too afraid to do anything like go to the Rurales (Mexican Fed. Police) because generally the Rurales were feared more than the Chupacabras. One village hired a Mexican witch to put a spell on the Chupa, but it didn't work, and a week or so later the witch was found half eaten near some old Indian ruins in the desert. Chupas are bad news. They play with rattlesnakes during the day and drink rancid cactus juice. They have fleas and body lice and mange too.

You bet your sweet keester chupas are real. Last summer one killed three of my prize jackasses before I was able to drive down to Juarez and bring in a Mexican curandera wizard woman to put a demon hex on the thing and scare it off.

I live in South Texas on a 1600 acre jackass ranch. That's a lot of territory to keep tabs on even when you riding hard every day fixing fences and checking all the watering holes and feed bins.

One night me and two of my Mexican ranch hands were working late when we heard the most God-awful animal noises. We loaded up the truck and drove over the hill, and then we saw the thing all covered in jackass blood. It was horrible. The poor jack never had a chance. I got off two shots with my Winchester, but missed. They real alright. The only good thing to come out of all this was that I ended up marrying the Mexican wizard woman. Now I have a good wife and no chupa problems.

In the 1990's there were dozens of stories aired on Mexican TV about chupacabras. It put such a scare into some of the Mexican farmers they went out and entered bat caves looking for chupas and killed thousands of bats which were the main pollinators of the cactus used in making tequila.

In Puerto Rico the U.S. Government has secret labs in places like El Yunque. It is rumored by the locals that one of these labs was doing genetic engineering and cross-breeding involving exotic animals, and late one night during a violent storm some of these test animals escaped. These same labs also were used to test Agent Orange that ended up being used in Vietnam.

I just received several new reliable reports about Chupacabra attacks being on the rise in central Mexico. I will post these as soon as all the pertinent data has been collected and reviewed by our ethnically diverse Chupacabra investigative team.

Meanwhile, please be advised that as of noon today we are under a Chupacabra YELLOW ALERT This means bring all pets inside, lock your doors, and tune your battery-powered Chupa Radio to 66.6 on the dial and wait for further instructions from Chupacabra Central.

And I thought Jackass Acres was in AZ on I-17 between Phoenix and Sedona!

does anyone know the meaning of chupacabras?

I'll bet if a person had access to the Internet they could probably google it in 10 seconds. I'll bet dictionary.com might even be helpful.

I think chupacabra means goatsucker in Spanish, after the nightjars...like whipoorwills, chuck-wills-widow, and Common Nighthawk. There is a long-standing belief that nighthawks will fly down into a herd of goats at night and suck the milk from their udders. This eventually morphed into chupacabra stories. Birds became lizardlike creatures which prefer blood over milk. Chupas are real. Trust me. Photo of a Pauraque.

There you go, Seawitch. You see what can be done with a proper search engine. So go, ye, and do likewise.