Chupacabras and Other Mysteries

by Scott Corrales

Scott Corrales has made several significant contributions to this web site as well as Steamshovel Press magazine. He documented the legend of the Chupacabras, the bizarre Goatsucker beast that haunts Puerto Rico, in various magazines in the Spanish-speaking world, and self-published The Chupacabras Diaries, from which much of the information in this volumes derives. The Chupacabras remains a paranormal phenomenon not well understood where it appears, and even less so with interested US readers. Chupacabras and Other Mysteries provides the first substantive English translation dealing with the bugger. It relies on the research and work of Jorge and Marleem Martin, made first-hand investigations of animal mutilations attributed to the Chupacabras in the Puerto Rican municipalities of Orocovis and Morovis. The book includes a photo section, none of the elusive creatures, but of kittens they "exsanquinated," haunts, and the original sketch based on eyewitness memory. Chupacabras is not a run-of-the-mill hide and seek type bigfoot. A wide variety of paranormal activity attends its visits. As UFO researcher Marc Davenport points out in the introduction, the creatures' reported eye-beams do not behave in like the bio-luminesence of fireflies and deep sea fish. Chupacrabras is something else again, and this volume contributes greatly to helping figure out what.

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