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El Chupacabra This vampiric varmint has been known to haunt rural regions south of the border, preying typically on goats (From which it gets the name goat-sucker,) and other small, furry animals. Since it first turned up in Puerto Rico in 1995, it's handiwork has been connected with Satanists, space-aliens, and blood-thirsty evil spirits. Noted for it's colorful fringe (complete with "wings"), terrifying howl, and hypnotic, red eyes, the little rascal (about 3'6 tall) is also quite agile, said to be able to leap 20'+ in the air. It's also rumored that two or more specimens are in the government's possession. By 1996, the Chupacabra had begun to migrate to Mexico, causing such a sensation that the Catholic church stepped in to reassure panicky peasants. El Chupacabra is considered a protected species, even though the phenomenon has largely been dismissed as fraud and fantasy. More>> |
The Jersey Devil
The celebrated sports-mascot is a part of actual, North American mythology passed down from the American Indians. Alternately, the Jersey Devil is said to be the undying, demonic offspring of a cursed woman by the name of Mrs. Leeds. Either way, sightings of the fearsome, New Jersey resident go back hundreds of years, though descriptions of the beast vary wildly from that of a dragon, to a winged stag to a bigfoot-like creature. By some reports it is known to prey on livestock, terrorize naughty children, and pepper snowy rooftops with its hoof-prints. |
Mothman
In the Flatwoods of West Virginia between 1966-67 there was a wave of sightings of a shadowy winged phantom dubbed "the Bird" or, more famously, Mothman. The odd creature was reported to have a penchant for chasing after cars, making perfect vertical ascents and stalking amorous teenagers. Mothman was associated by some with the paranormal, (e.g.: nocturnal lights, animal mutilations, even the MIB) as West Virginia was in the midst of a UFO wave at the time. The sinister apparition was even suspected of somehow causing the downing of Silver Bridge, in which fifty-two people lost their lives. Mothman was generally described as being seven or more feet tall, with gray to black fur and huge, hypnotic, red, glowing eyes set in a headless torso
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Bigfoot
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The most familiar attraction at the crypto-zoo- whether called Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Momo, the Skunk Ape, or a multitude of other names- is believed by many to be a throw-back relative of mankind- gigantopithecus- in the flesh. Lack of substantial physical evidence has led to wilder speculation- that the phenomenon is somehow related to U.F.O's., inter-dimensional visitations, or Jungian archetypes of humanity made real. Sightings of the creature seem to have peaked in the years after the famous 1967 Bluff Creek footage, suggesting that this proudest American legend finally reached it's evolutionary dead-end, or simply got back aboard it's spaceship and went back home to Zeta-Reticuli. |
