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Hi, this is Christina and Carmen. This is the Spooky Tells.
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The podcast for all things is Spooky, true Crime, hunted Places, smiths,
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legends in Latin America. This month only spooky, only as
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spooky because we're in costume. So yeah, only scary stories
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this month. Today I'm going to be telling you about
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theras and specifically because I want to talk about Thecabras
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attacking Chile in the year two thousand, because I didn't
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know that happened neither. But before we do that, a
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listener story and if you want to send us your
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stories to read on an episode, email is Spooky Tales
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at gmail dot com. You can dm us on any
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of our socials. You can leave it as a comment
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on TikTok and I will still take it and read it.
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And yeah, we love receiving them. All the information to
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get us their stories is in the show notes. Carmen,
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go ahead, alrighty, So this listener story is from Christy
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Kruz and I love the alliteration. Me too. Hello, my
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Spooky sisters. I really enjoy listening to your podcasts and
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I would love to share a story of my own.
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My name is Christy and back in nineteen ninety nine,
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when I was just a kid, my family and I
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lived near Fresno, California. It was me and my parents,
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my brother, and mytha, who all lived under the same roof,
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which is convenient for my parents because they love to
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go out dancing Friday or Saturday nights, and they would
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often ask my THEA to look after us. On these nights.
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My THEA would spoil us with junk food and late
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night movies until we fell asleep before my parents would
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come home for the night. Sounds amazing, That sounds so fun.
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My brother and I slept in the same room, on
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the same bed, and on the opposite side was my
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Thea's bed, with whom we also shared the room. Now,
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there being three people in one room, two of them
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literal children and the third person being in their late teens,
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meant that the room was usually littered with dirty clothes
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or clothes that just had n't been put away. It
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had been exactly one of these party nights when in
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the middle of it I woke up. I was laying
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on my side when I noticed movement near the closet.
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The room was dark except for the hall light coming
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from below the door. So it took me a while
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for my eyes to focus on what I was seeing.
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It was a pair of pants. They were up and moving,
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as if someone was actually wearing them. I saw shirts
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and other pants up and moving in the same way.
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They were just iron flat, but moving like they were
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being worn by invisible people. It's hard to explain just
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how surreal it seemed like it was in the middle
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of a mall with bodies moving about their own business.
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I was sitting up by this time, and I shook
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my brother awake too. It took him a minute to
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grasp what was happening, just like me. We didn't move,
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and we didn't speak for another minute. Just watch these clothes, however,
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around our room. Then, all at once, all of the
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bodies of clothes turned to face us and floated slowly
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toward toward us. And what the fuck? No, no, it
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sounds like a horrifying scene from Fantasia. Suddenly, my brother
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whipped off the covers, grabbed my arm, and pulled us
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out of the bed. We raced to the bedroom door,
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shot out, and quickly closed the door behind us. We
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stopped to look back. I felt like we had escaped them.
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You can't open the doors without hands right, but they
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didn't need to open the door. The clothes flatly slid
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out from underneath the door gap and continued towards us.
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We bolted again, this time headed for our parents' room.
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We raced in and climbed into their bed. Terrified. We
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pleaded for them to wake up and turned on the lights,
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but it took a while to come up from their sleep.
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The clothes had begun peeking into the room. Finally, my
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mother reached over and turned on the bedside lamp. Lighte
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flooded the room, and all at once, the clothes dropped
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to the floor, right where they had been hovering. My
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parents hadn't seen anything. They were confused and asked us
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what we were doing. My brother and I tried to explain,
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but they said that clothes were always on the floor,
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and why hadn't my thea been woking up By all this,
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It was brushed off as a nightmare, and we were
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only brought back to our bedroom. A year or two later,
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we moved to Texas, except for my Thea, who went
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off to a different state. As I grew up, my
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mom noticed how much I was interested in watching or
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learning about ghosts. She said, I was just like my thea,
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but warned me not to play with Wuiji boards. She
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said that idea. I used to mess with them back
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when we lived in California. Well, then that might have
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explained the nightmare. It's an old memory that both my
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brother and I share, except he'swears he woke up first.
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I love that. What a silly thing. Now, I woke
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you up, bitch right, It's like, no, I woke up first? No, nah,
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And then they just end by saying thank you for
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reading my spookito and I look forward to your future episodes.
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Oh that was crazy. Yeah, it feels like a fever dream.
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I shared fever dream though. I don't like it. But yeah, like,
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why didn't the wake up? Maybe because she did cause it?
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She was the cause. Yeah, I don't like it, but
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I love this story. I wouldn't like it if it
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happened to me. I mean no, yeah, it'd be weird.
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It reminds us of that picture our mom sent us
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where there was a shirt that was talked about that
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I don't think we have. Yeah, but our mom she
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sent us videos and pictures. No, it was the day
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she was particularly sad, you know, grieving about her dad
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or grandpa being passed away and the shirt. I don't know.
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I don't know at what point she noticed or she
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saw it stand up, but it was like standing straight up. Yeah.
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She even called us, like video chatted and like moved
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the phone around to show that nothing was holding this up.
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And it's like if someone was either holding it up
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or like I mean, because it wasn't the full shape
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of someone wearing it, but the shirt was standing basically
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on the bed, so like nothing was going still flat.
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Yeah yeah, but it was like, uh, it was so weird.
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I showed my husband and he's all like, maybe it
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starts straight, and I was like, my mom doesn't start
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your clothes. Yeah, she doesn't use starch. Yeah, because if
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it was starch, that would explain it. But again she
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has no starch the house, which is wild, and there's
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no explanation like what makes a shirt just stand up?
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And there's there was other clothes I think on the
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bed and that was the only one. That was the
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only one, and like that, yes, like that all day
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and then eventually her husband was like, all right, you
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can like rest now, and then then she like he
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was gonna touch it to like drop it. Himself and
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it just fell after that. Yeah, like, I'm sorry, but nothing,
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And it can't be fake because our mom is technologically inept. Yeah,
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she doesn't know how to do that. She doesn't know
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her Apple ID like the tiktoks. She can dance, but
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she cannot remember her Apple. Yeah, she's a ten, but
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she doesn't know how to log into Facebook. No, I
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think she does, but I think if she weren't to
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log out, she would ask us for help to log
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back in. No, you're right, Yeah, you're right anyway. Yeah, wow,
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that was crazy. Onto the Chupacabras. The chupac Cabras, that's
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what we're talking about today. I already said it's because
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I read randomly this tiny little head line. We're now
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searching stories about the Chilean military fighting with the Chacabras
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in two thousand and I was like, military, mm hmm.
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But before we get to that, let's talk about the Chupacabras.
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Contrary to what a lot of people believe, this is
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not a Mexican legend. It did not originate in Mexico
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because yeah, a lot of people think that. Yeah, I
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used to think that same, Like another Mexican fave of ours,
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La Yourona. The chupacabra does transcend borders. It is international.
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There's stories all over Latin America, the US, Spain, the Philippines, China, Russia. Damn.
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There have been chupacabra like stories for a long long time,
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though even before the nineteen nineties. There's a vampire like
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cryptive that sucks blood of animals called the Vambido de Moca.
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I think I've talked about it on Patreon. I honestly
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can't remember. If I haven't, I meant to, but that
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was like a vampire type creature. But yeah, just bloodsucking
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cryptids or entities have been around for a very long time.
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But the actual chupacabras as we know it today has
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its origins in Puerto Rico, and sightings were reported for
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the very first time in nineteen eighty five, and descriptions
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of the chupacabra change depending on location. In most of
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Latin America, it is described as a well, Actually, before
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I get into the description, what do you think it
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looks like? Kerman? I've always pictured it like it's kind
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of like a were wolf looking thing where it has
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the option to stand on two legs but can also
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run on four lengths or for whatever, and like Harry,
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like a dog, like like werewolf, but uglier, you know,
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like like monsterish looking maybe like a flea in Mangi looking,
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you know, and more not like a wearable face or
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dog face. But I've always pretty suit more like well,
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like I said, more monster looking like alien or something. Okay,
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interesting you have you have kind of combined both of
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the different descriptions. I did listen to your first episode. Wait,
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I already did a chupuk Autras episode. Didn't you almost
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certain that I've never really checked. Well, no, because I'm
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pretty sure. But now I'm wondering if I did. I
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feel like you did because I remember you saying it
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was from Puerto Rico, not from Mexico. Oh you know
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what I think we did. There was an episode where
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we did sightings of the Chupakada. Not really. You don't
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remember this, no, oh my god? Hold on? Oh and
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the suka ya yes, oh wow, huh I don't remember
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talking about this. Well, hopefully I don't repeat any information back. Well,
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I'm literally repeating what you said. Well, I'm wondering what
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I even said in that episode. I don't do well,
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I don't know when I shard on out already, but
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so some of it may be repeated information. But descriptions
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of the Chupakaa change depending on location, and most of
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Latin America is described as a reptile alien like bean
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green or gray, about the size of a small bear,
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with a spiny back. These spiky things go from the
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back of the head all the way to the tail,
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and yes it has a tail. But in most of
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the Southwest US described more like a dog MAINGI black again,
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the size of like a big dog or a wolf
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or something like that. I personally thought of it as
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an alien like creature more than a dog, but both
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descriptions are super common. In both descriptions, it has sharp
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nails and like sharp vampire fings. Sometimes it has wings
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as well. In both forms, the alien or the dog form,
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it has wings and as many of our listeners already know,
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but the name literally translates to goat sucker, chupa cabra
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or cabras. Yeah. Also, some people say chewpac cabra and
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other people say chewpac cabras. Both are not wrong. I've
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heard both. Yeah, Yeah, it's just I personally think it
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would be chepa cabras because it's sucking more than one goat.
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I agree, Yeah, that's my take on it. Yeah, both
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of them are right. What is wrong is writing latupa
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cara because it's always ed cara, like Spanish is gendered
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and it's just that's what it is, ra or cameras,
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but not latupa cara. Did we want write it however
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you want? Like it doesn't matter to me. Are people
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like people are about it? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I mean
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I see both. Yeah, okay. So in March nineteen ninety five,
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eight sheep were discovered dead in Puerto Rico. All eight
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were found to have three puncture wounds in the chest
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area and to have been completely drained of blood, and
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reports like these spread all over the island mainly and
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began in two towns, Motobi's and Kobe's, both in like
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the north central part of Puerto Rico, very green and mountainous,
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And then a few months later, in August nineteen ninety five,
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a woman named Madeleine Dolentino reported having seen the chupa cabras.
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By this point in time, one hundred and fifty farm
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animals and pets had been killed in Canovanas, where she's from,
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but more all over and Madeleine's account is thought of
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as the first sighting ever of the Chupacabras. So she
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was in her house in Canovanas. It was in the
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middle of August, and her mom came to wake her
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up from a nap. She wanted her to come to
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the window to look at what she had just seen.
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So they went over together and they stared at the
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window and they saw a creature jumping around in their yard.
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It was about three feet tall. This later changes to
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four to five feet tall, but her account, her first
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account said three feet three feet tall, standing on two legs,
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with dark eyes that protruded like they stick out. These
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eyes spread to the sides, stink classic green alien eyes.
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Its arms were drawn back like it was ready to attack,
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and these arms that were ready to attack were long.
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Each hand was made up of three skinny fingers. It
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was covered in short hair like fur and had spikes
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running down its back, and she and her mom watched
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they jump away like a kangaroo, so like on its
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hind legs. Over the next few weeks, thirty other people
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in Kanovanas claimed to have seen the chupacabra swooping down
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from the sky and jumping from treetop to treetop. Then
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that November, on the nineteenth, there was another attack. This