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 chupacabra




From: atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: "Goat Suckers"
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 03:44:19 -0500

In article <4nh2m7$g17@news2.delphi.com>, NICIAS@news.delphi.com (NICIAS@DELPHI.COM) wrote:

[recent reports of chupacabras in Texas, blamed on vampires]

From a folklore-tracking perspective, it's interesting that the chupacabra always seems to surface in an area with a large spanish-speaking population. I haven't heard of any in the Louisiana bayoux, in Haiti, or along the redneck riviera*, all of which are suitably tropical.

Anyway, my reliable sources(tm):

Mexico's bloodsuckers: myth or reality? http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9605/15/mexican.goatsucker/index.html

Bat-like beast terrorizes Mexican village http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9605/03/goatsucker.wir/index.html

Monster accused of killing farm animals in Florida http://www.cnn.com/US/fringe/9603/03-28/index.html#1

Andy "this is what my bosses call guerrilla marketing" Walton

*ObTWUAVBP: The "redneck riviera" is the gulf coast of the Florida panhandle, Alabama, and Mississippi, a lovely seashore with white sandy beaches that is completely taken over from March to May by folks with large-wheeled pickup truckss, a penchant for cheap beer, and too little vacation money to make it to Daytona.


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