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Boy Shoots Chupacabra In Texas: Photos

by | 21st, July 2011

CARTER Pope, 13, has shot and killed a  chupacabra at his home in La Salle, Texas. Says Pope:

“Something slowly came across and started shaking, slowly moving across. It was grey, no hair at all. I thought that’s a chupacabra.”

What with this being Texas, Pope did as any local might when confonted with a thing of wonder and legend: he shot it dead. He then tried to work out what it was.

So. Is it a  chupacabra, a mythical creature that that sucks the blood of livestock? Or its a sick dog, say, or a calf, or just the last of its kind shot in the face by a boy who dared to dream..?

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ON Temuka beach, Rose Fraser has potted an alien. Says she: “I first saw it from a distance and I thought: ‘That’s a big white rock on the shore line … that wasn’t there four days ago’.” A new island? “I must admit, I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’. It looks like it’s got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don’t know.” So she did as anyone would do when faced with a magical discovery, a visitation from another planet. She lobbed a rock at it. She prodded it with a stick. It did not move. But it did smell. She then took a photo which found its way to Otago University’s whale experts. And they ruled that this blob was the stuffing from a sperm whale’s head. How it arrived on the beach? They say it crawled there…



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