Possible Chupacabra Sighting In Texas (VIDEO)

Don't resign yourself to chupacabra nightmares just yet. Even Jack Crabtree, the supplier of photos to The Facts, his local Texas paper, doesn't think that he witnessed a real chupacabra, or "The Bigfoot of Latin Culture," as dubbed by CNN during a previous chupacabra sighting.

According to a report by ABC News, the retired wildlife biologist and his wife Linda saw the slow-moving, hairless creature wandering by a creek at the back of their house on the Fourth of July. They took photos, and Crabtree sent them to the newspaper, jokingly calling it a Chupacabra.

However, the paper either didn't get the joke, or didn't care, and they ran it on the front page, stirring excitement similar to the other Texas Chupacabra sighting a few months ago. When that creature was spotted, Animal Control Officer Frank Hackett described the animal: "All I know is, it wasn't normal. It was ugly, real ugly. I'm not going to tell no lie on that one."

Crabtree told ABC News that he can't believe people's reactions:

"I've been amazed with the fascination people have with chupacabras and other mythical animals," he said. "I'm really not a believer in chupacabras or Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman."

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Comments

[printspotmia]

05:25 PM on 07/14/2011

I can't believe someone hasn't eaten this moose by now...

[dbrett480]

04:34 PM on 07/14/2011

Looks like a hairless coyote.

[Jon Kerr]

03:06 PM on 07/14/2011

The markings make it look like an African Wild Dog, which have pretty short hair, but are not hairless. Maybe it's some bizarre hybrid.

[evranovsky]

02:41 PM on 07/14/2011

Depend of how much marihuana the people used will make them see also unicorn

[steven mccoslin]

10:21 AM on 07/14/2011

Maybe we can have the famous Lake Jackson Chupacabra festival. Would be better than the No Name Festival and Mosquito Festival.

[onnozol]

07:21 AM on 07/14/2011

Rad. Hide your goats! Hide your cows!

[Albert Estrada]

03:41 AM on 07/14/2011

thank god this is not the chupacabra i use to go to bed with a broom under my bed cuz i saw in the news that a lady from peru scared away the chupacabra with one so i always had a broom to defend myself yeah im weird like that

[gregory57]

01:10 AM on 07/14/2011

Looks like a hairless Coyote to me.

[Js420]

11:29 PM on 07/13/2011

Crawford Ranch?

[Brother Anton]

07:42 PM on 07/13/2011

It could be leprosy. Apparently, armadillos (a food source) are laden with it.

[lhanderson86]

05:15 PM on 07/13/2011

It's CLEARLY a mammal from the Canidae family: dog, coyote, possibly even the endangered Mexican Red Wolf with a mange problem.

[LarryA]

02:45 PM on 07/13/2011

They will believe anything in Texas.

[lambdin1]

01:14 PM on 07/13/2011

Where else but Texas. I think the heat is really getting to them!

[blisster]

12:36 PM on 07/13/2011

He's off to share in a repast with Big Foot and Giant Croc.

[eyelashviper]

12:33 PM on 07/13/2011

That's no chupacabra. Everyone knows that real chupacabras strand upright on hind legs, have huge red luminous eyes, and spikes down their backs....kinda like the w@sillacreature when she gets mad and starts tossing cans of beans around.