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- Last week saw another rash of Chupacabra attacks in Chile.
Eyewitnesses also sighted two weird humanoid creatures, said to be Chupacabras,
near the city of Concepcion,located 300 kilometers (180 miles) south of
Santiago de Chile, the national capital.
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- The new round of Chupacabra incidents began Wednesday,
April 12, 2000 in the small town of Tucapel, in Bio Bio province just east
of Concepcion. Witnesses reported that "a large bunch of dried brambles
were crushed by a strange luminous phenomenon."
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- On Saturday, April 29, 2000, Jose Ismael Pino, 59, a
farm worker employed at the Esperance Ranch two kilometers (one mile) east
of Huepil, near Tucapel, had a face-to-face meeting with the Chupacabra.
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- Leaving the barn at 8 p.m., Pino explained, "There
was a large bull running wild. I was walking along when I saw something,
and I thought that was it. 'Hey, damned bull!' I shouted, and then I saw
that it wasn't. It hardly moved. It just stood there, looking at me.
It stood about 1.5 meters (four feet) tall, like a big monkey, with long
clawed arms, enormous fangs protruding from its mouth, as well as a pair
of wings. I was so scared I turned and ran back for the hounds. I set them
all loose and let them chase after 'The Bird.' Cachorro (one of the dogs--J.T.)
came back with a bloodstained neck."
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- "Pino's boss, Jorge Venegas, owner of the 75-acre
farm, carries a loaded shotgun on his shoulder."
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- "Venegas, on his part, lets his employees leave
early, since they are fearful of walking around at night, and he himself
since the night of the luminous phenomena in Tucapel, has slept with his
shotgun beside him."
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- "'We don't know what we're dealing with here. I'm
not so concerned about the attacks on the animals, but I have two children,
12 years old and 15 years old, and I'm not going to let anything happen
to them. In fact, right now I'm going to get a floodlight to see at night,
in case something weird shows up,' explained the planter, hefting the shotgun
to his right shoulder."
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- Farms in the Huepil-Tucapel area "were affected
by the alleged predator, which killed four sheep on one farm and a cow
on another."
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- However, not everybody believes that the the Chupacabra
is the culprit. The manager of the Raul Perez farm told the newspaper
Cronica, "Years ago, we had a (wild) dog problem. They managed to
kill 70 sheep one single night, but we gave it no further importance at
the time."
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- On Tuesday night, May 2, 2000, Carabineros (Chile's national
police--J.T.) from the cuartel (barracks) in Santa Fe reported that "eight
sheep, all of them pregnant, had been attacked by an unknown animal, which
had left them half-dead, making it necessary to put them down."
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- The attacks were "blamed on wild dogs. Subofficer
Alviro Valdebenito of the Santa Fe barracks further added that a characteristic
of these dogs is that they are barkless."
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- Lt. Walter Koch of the Huepil Carabineros stated, "No,
there were no reports about it (Chupacabra--J.T.) whatever. We don't even
have pumas in this sector, and only in the pre-Cordillera ranges will you
find foxes. The only predator of the type we've had are Siberian dogs which
have feasted on some chickens."
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- "Carlos Villalobos, a schoolteacher in Huepil, said,
'I think it's linked to some unknown life-form, possibly alien in origin,
but the authorities take the position of not acknowledging it, and they
are probably very justified, since a collective panic situation could be
unleashed.'"
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- The Chupacabra attacks continued without letup.
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- On Wednesday, May 3, 2000, "at 1:30 a.m., professor
Liliana Romero Castillo slept soundly in her apartment located at Laguna
Redonda in Concepcion, when she was awakened by the barking of the five
stray puppies she had picked up some time earlier." The Puppies were
living "in the building courtyard with Black, her large, fierce mastiff."
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- "'I crouched and looked through the window. The
puppies were whining, and Black had cowered against the wall and was motionless.
I could see the back of what appeared to be an immense man, standing more
than two meters (6 feet, 8 inches) tall. The shoulder blades were split,
as if he had wings. Its attitude (posture--J.T.) recalled that of a person
choking another. That was my impression,' said Sra. Romero."
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- "Concerned that a crime was taking place in her
garden, she woke her husband, who gave the matter little attention. 'I'm
not getting up,' he said, half-asleep."
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- Sra. Romero returned to the window to get another look
at the creature, but by then it was gone.
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- "The following day (Thursday, May 4, 2000) Liliana
sent her children out to buy groceries at the local store. using a shortcut
located behind their building. Upon their return, they told their mother
that they had seen 'a dead dog'" in the alleyway.
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- Liliana asked her husband to check, and he returned saying
that a wooly, beige-colored dog was lying on the ground with two puncture
marks in the throat."
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- 'I don't know if I might be in a suggestive state,' he
said, 'But it had two deep holes in its jugular (vein), about the size
of a Bic pen, separated by five centimeters between them. What impressed
me the most was the way the body was completely bloodless and was as light
as a feather. The dog was incredibly wooly (furry--J.T.) and in fact I
had to move the fur to see the puncture marks.'"
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- Summoned by Liliana, a team of Carabineros arrived at
the crime scene and took custody of the dog's body. They loaded the dog
into a black plastic garbage bag and "ordered the family to remain
silent, so as not to panic the local residents."
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- "'But I'm scared,' Liliana said, 'Since I have very
young children, and I'm afraid that whatever was there will come back.'"
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- The Carabineros took the dead dog to the First Comissariat
in Concepcion so it could be autopsied by pathologists.
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- The same day, May 4, 2000, "35 dead birds were found
on a ranch 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pucon on the road leading to the
village of Caburuga. The animal attacks, attributed to the mythical Chupacabras,
presented the same characteristics as the earlier attacks. (See UFO Roundup,
volume 5, number 17 for details) since the dead chickens had cuts and
scratches on different parts of their bodies.."
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- Capt. Roberto Saldivia, deputy chief of the Pucon Carabineros,
"confirmed that the animals were found dead in a pen, without a single
drop of blood in them."
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- "Cesar Hidalgo, regional director of Servicio Agricola
y Ganado (Chile's Agricultural and Livestock Service--J.T.). explained
that SAG professionals were at the scene" in Caburuga and would investigate
further. (See the Chilean newspapers Cronica of Concepcion for May 2,
2000; El Sur for May 5, 2000, "Mysterious Nocturnal Apparition in
Building Courtyard--Dead Dog Found Later" by Carlso Saso Prieto; and
Orbe for May 5, 2000, "Further Chupacabras Attacks." Muchas
gracias a Scott Corrales, auto de los libros Chupacabras and Other Mysteries
y Forbidden Mexico, Gloria Coluchi y Ricardo Concha para esas historias.)
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