Chupacabra Found in Texas?

**michigal** · 09-01-2007,04:07 PM

Shades of last year's dogbeast story from Maine...

Has a Mythical Beast Turned Up in Texas?

**Nobtis** · 10-28-2007,11:57 PM

Why doesn't the media ever follow-up with these things after DNA is done and skull is examinded? Their quick to report possible miracles, cryptzoology creatures, paranormal, but they never follow-up to show if it was proven or disproven (or even can't be proven either way)....And that SUCKS! Why report something like that without going back to it later with more details and proofs and reports? Makes no sense to me!
~~ Nobtis

**michigal** · 10-31-2007,11:52 AM

What Mike C. said.
Nobtis, I doubt if DNA testing was done on this particular pooch. That costs money, the government isn't paying for it. The Lewiston Sun Journal paid to have it done for the one in Maine, because they were trying to wring every ounce of sleaze out of the story that they could.
#*$^@*%$ Tabloid-type reporters.

**night-owl** · 11-03-2007,01:17 PM

It's a coyote:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/texas-m...00010000000001

**night-owl** · 11-03-2007,01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Mike C

Makes perfect sense, Nobtis, IF you get it in your head to think the way media shills do.
Reporting a seeming mystery with a little hysteria and sensationalistic blather sells, and sells big.
The moment science, contemplation and sanity prevail, the resulting facts are never nearly as sellable; they drop the story cold, as if it never happened, and go looking for the next 'big mystery' which will always turn out to be something less than its inital hysterical reports indicated.

A dogmanbeast thing in Michigan turns out to be an unfortunate dog with a rare condition and is exploited by some to sell papers (ask good ol' Michigal!)... a chupacabra in Texas sells a lot more copy than the next week's 'TX Chupacabra Merely Mutant Chihuahua'... though now that I think on it, I'd READ an article on mutant chihuahuas!

Mike C.

Mike, I know that papers love to have fun with this stuff, and I read the site that explains that the Michigan Dogman was a hoax. However, there are people who actually see things. My coworker had never even heard of the Beast of Bray Road when he told me about his encounter in the early seventies - and he told me to keep quiet for fear of ridicule from other employees. And he isn't the only one I know personally with a similar encounter, just the only one who got a really good look at it in daylight. Never mind the silly news stories that are always popping up. Ask people you know. Read some more serious books on the subject. It isn't always a "made-up-for-profit" thing. (Sometimes those papers are distributed for free and take heat from their advertisers for printing such a thing.) Sightings of certain creatures have been going on for decades, centuries, even millenia. Hysteria comes and goes, but the mystery remians. Without it, Halloween would have no appeal.