Reports of blue, hairless creatures roaming the countryside from Elmendorf to Cuero. Ranchers talking of livestock being drained of blood.
Put the two together, and it sounds like the legend of the chupacabra. One rancher says she has the evidence to back it up.
"After six kittens had been lost to something around the place, I made up my mind we needed to do something to find out what it was that was taking it," said Phylis Canion, a rancher in Cuero.
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The name chupacabra translated from Spanish means goat-sucker, for the creature's habit of sucking the blood of livestock.
Canion said her neighbors have reported goats drained of their blood.
"Is (a chupacabra) what it is? We don't know what it is, but that's what we'll call it!" Canion said.
But others call it something else.
What do you think? Watch the video to see the head in the freezer. Read more here. Then decide."(There's) no chupacabra," said John Young, a mammologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Young said the animal is a sickly gray fox with a typical case of parasites.
"When mange goes untreated, it causes this type of reaction. They start to itch, lose all their hair, there's this blue-gray coloration. And the animal usually dies from it," Young said.
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