The dreaded chupacabra, or “goat-sucker”—named for its purported vampirism and appetite for livestock—first appeared in 1995 in Puerto Rico, just after the Hollywood movie Species opened on the island ...

Hide the children and secure the goats — a Chupacabra was spotted in Tucson. Although this creepy creature was originally born of Puerto Rican myth, it has since materialized and made its way across ...

The chupacabra, according to this school of pensamiento and a folklorist that Radford cites with a bit of skepticism, is “a form of cultural resistance which many [Latinos] use to maintain social ...